Poets in History (Part 9)

Historical Events

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Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 801 - 900 of 1,601

• 1883-03-16 Ethel Anderson, Australian poet (d. 1958)
• 1883-03-27 Marie Under, Estonian author and poet, born in Tallinn, Russian Empire (d. 1980)
• 1883-04-06 Mien Labberton, Dutch poetress
• 1883-05-19 Henricus WJM Keuls, Dutch lawyer/poet (Dancing Lamp)
• 1883-07-29 Porfirio Barba-Jacob, Colombian poet and writer (d. 1942)
• 1883-08-11 Ernst Stadler, German poet (Der Aufbruch), born in Colmar, Alsace-Lorraine (d. 1914)
• 1883-09-16 T. E. Hulme, English writer and poet, born in Endon, Shaffordshire (d. 1917)
• 1883-09-17 William Carlos Williams, American physician and poet, born in Rutherford, New Jersey (d. 1963)
• 1884-02-09 Frederik Gerretson [Geerten Gossaert], Dutch poet/politician)
• 1884-02-14 Kostas Varnalis, Greek poet, born in Burgas, Bulgaria (d. 1974)
• 1884-04-02 Sir J. C. Squire, British poet, writer, and historian, born in Plymouth, Devon (d. 1958)
• 1884-05-21 Manuel Pérez y Curis, Uruguayan poet (d. 1920)
• 1884-08-08 Sara Teasdale, American poet (1st Pulitzer Prize-1918-"Love Songs")
• 1884-11-05 James Elroy Flecker, English poet and dramatist (Hassan), born in Lewisham, London (d. 1915)
• 1884-11-10 Jan van Nijlen, Flemish poet and author (Bird Phoenix), born in Antwerp, Belgium (d. 1965)
• 1884-12-14 Regina Ullmann, Swiss poet and writer, born in St. Gallen, Switzerland (d. 1961)
• 1885-01-05 Humbert Wolfe, Italian-born British poet, born in Milan, Italy (d. 1940)
• 1885-01-25 Kitahara Hakushū, Japanese poet & children's writers, born in Nankan, Japan (d. 1942)
• 1885-08-18 Nettie Palmer, Australian poet and essayist (Henry Handel Richardson: A Study), born in Bendigo, Victoria, Australia (d. 1964)
• 1885-08-20 Dino Campana, Italian poet (Canti orfici), born in Marradi, Italy (d. 1932)
• 1885-08-26 Jules Romains, French novelist/playwright/poet (Men of Good Will)

• 1885-10-01 Louis Untermeyer, American poet and critic (Immortal Poems, Story Poems), born in NYC, New York (d. 1977)
• 1885-10-11 Francois Mauriac, French novelist, poet and playwright (Nobel 1952), born in Bordeaux, France (d. 1970)

• 1885-11-06 Emiel Poetou, Flemish sculptor, born in Ghent, Belgium (d. 1975)
• 1885-11-09 Velimir Khlebnikov, Russian poet and playwright, born in Tundutov, Russia (d. 1922)
• 1885-12-19 F S Flint, translator/poet (imagist movement), born in London, England
• 1886-01-02 Moyshe Leyb Halpern, Galican/American poet (In New-York)
• 1886-01-03 John G Fletcher, American poet (Epic of Arkansas)
• 1886-03-03 Tore Ørjasæter, Norwegian poet (d. 1968)
• 1886-04-15 Nikolay Gumilyov, Russian poet, born in Kronshtadt, Russia (d. 1921)
• 1886-04-26 Ğabdulla Tuqay, Tatar poet (Oh My Mother Tongue!), born in Quşlawıç, Kazan Governorate, Russian Empire (d. 1913)
• 1886-05-02 Gottfried Benn, German poet and essayist, born in Mansfelf, Germany (d. 1956)
• 1886-09-08 Siegfried Sassoon, English poet and writer (Counterattack), born in Matfield, Kent, England (d. 1967)
• 1886-09-10 Hilda Doolittle, American poetess (Imagist movement), born in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania (d. 1961)
• 1886-09-20 Charles Williams, British poet and writer, born in London (d. 1945)
• 1886-10-24 Delmira Agustini, Uruguayan poet (El Libro Blanco), born in Montevideo, Uruguay (d. 1914)
• 1886-12-01 Pierre Kemp, Dutch poet (Fugitives & Constants)

• 1887-01-10 Robinson Jeffers, American poet & playwright (Tamar & Other Poems, Medea), born in Allegheny, Pennsylvania (d. 1962)
• 1887-01-22 Helen Hoyt, American poet (d. 1972)
• 1887-01-25 Diego Valeri, Italian author & poet (Le Gaie Tristezze), born in Piove di Sacco, Italy (d. 1976)
• 1887-02-03 Georg Trakl, Austrian poet (Autumn of the Lonely)
• 1887-05-10 Jacobus C Bloem, Dutch poet (Sintels)
• 1887-05-16 Jakob van Hoddis [Hans Davidsohn], German Jewish poet (d. 1942?)
• 1887-05-31 Saint-John Perse, French diplomat and poet (Nobel 1960), born in Pointe-à-Pitre, Guadeloupe (d. 1975)
• 1887-06-20 Kurt Schwitters, German-British dada-artist and poet (collages), born in Hanover (d. 1948)
• 1887-08-03 Rupert Brooke, British WW I poet (Lithuania, The Soldier), born in Rugby, England (d. 1915)
• 1887-09-01 Blaise Cendrars [Frederic Sauser-Hall], Swiss poet/writer
• 1887-09-07 Edith Sitwell, English poet and author (Wheels), born in Scarborough, North Yorkshire (d. 1964)
• 1887-09-16 Jean Arp [Hans Arp], French-Swiss sculptor, artist and poet, born in Strassburg, Germany (d. 1966)
• 1887-10-12 Paula von Preradović, Croatian-Austrian poet and writer, born in Vienna, Austria (d. 1951)
• 1887-11-03 Samuil Marshak, Russian-Soviet writer, translator and children's poem poet, born in Voronezh, Russian Empire (d. 1964)
• 1887-11-15 Marianne Moore, poet (Pulitzer 1951, Collected Poems), born in St. Louis, Missouri
• 1888-02-06 Ljudmil Stojanow, Bulgarian poet (Metsh i Slowo, Cholera), born in Kovachevitsa, Bulgaria (d. 1973)
• 1888-02-10 Giuseppe Ungaretti, Italian poet (Hermeticism) and journalist, born in Alexandria (d. 1970)
• 1888-04-06 Daniel Andersson, Swedish poet/writer (Svarta Ballader)
• 1888-04-15 Maximilian Kronberger, German poet, born in Berlin (d. 1904)
• 1888-04-30 John Crowe Ransom, American poet and critic (God Without Thunder), born in Pulaski, Tennessee (d. 1974)
• 1888-05-23 Adrian Roland Holst, Dutch poet (Raged & Tired)
• 1888-06-05 Raden Mas Noto Soeroto, Javanese poet (Melatiknoppen), born in Yogyakarta, Indonesia (d. 1951)
• 1888-06-13 Fernando Pessoa, Portuguese poet and writer (The Book of Disquiet), born in Lisbon, Kingdom of Portugal (d. 1935)
• 1888-06-15 Ramon Lopez Velarde, Mexican poet (La Sangre Devota)

• 1888-10-31 Napoleon Lapathiotis, Greek poet, born in Athens, Greece (d. 1944)
• 1888-11-16 Henri Bosco, French author and poet (Gogol), born in Avignon, France (d. 1976)
• 1889-01-30 Jaishankar Prasad, Hindi poet, dramatist and novelist, born in Varanasi, India (d. 1937)
• 1889-02-19 Jose Eustasio Rivera, Colombian poet and novelist (Vortex)
• 1889-04-06 Gabriela Mistral [Lucila Godoy y Alcayaga], poet (Noebel Prize 1945) and diplomat, born in Vicuña, Chile (d. 1957)
• 1889-05-17 Alfonso Reyes, Mexican writer (Simpatías y diferencias) and diplomat (Higenia Cruel), born in Monterrey, Mexico (d. 1959)
• 1889-06-23 Anna Akhmatova, Russian poet, born in Odessa, Ukraine (d. 1966)
• 1889-07-05 Jean Cocteau, French poet and writer (Les Enfants Terribles), born in Maisons-Laffitte, France (d. 1963)
• 1889-08-05 Conrad Aiken, American Pulitzer poet and writer (Ushant/Conversation), born in Savannah, Georgia (d. 1973)
• 1889-08-06 John Middleton Murry, English poet and literary critic (Between Two Worlds), born in London, England (d. 1957)
• 1889-09-13 Pierre Reverdy, French poet (Nord-Sud), born in Occitanie (d. 1960)
• 1889-12-08 Hervey Allen, American writer and poet (Anthony Adverse), born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (d. 1949)

• 1890-08-28 Ivor Gurney, English composer and poet, born in Gloucester (d. 1937)
• 1890-09-10 Franz Werfel, Austrian-Bohemian novelist, playwright, and poet (Mirror Man, The Forty Days of Musa Dagh), born in Prague, Austria-Hungary (d. 1945)
• 1890-09-20 Rachel Bluwstein, Hebrew poet, born in Saratov, Imperial Russia (d. 1931)
• 1890-10-21 Gerrit Engelke, German writer/poet (Love Letters)
• 1890-11-25 Isaac Rosenberg, English war poet (Poems from the Trenches) and artist, born in Bristol, England (d. 1918)
• 1891-01-03 Osip E Mandelstam, Polish/Russian poet/author (Kamenj) [NS=Jan 15]
• 1891-01-15 Osip Mandelstam, Russian poet (Noise of Time), born in Warsaw, Poland (d. 1938)
• 1891-01-28 Camille Melloy [Paepe], Belgian poet (Parfum des Buis)
• 1891-02-17 Georg Britting, German poet and writer (d. 1964)
• 1891-03-31 Ion Pillat, Romaniams poet/senator (Umbra timpului)
• 1891-04-19 Ricardo Bacchelli, Italian playwright and poet (La Ronda), born in Bologna, Italy (d. 1985)
• 1891-05-03 Tadeusz Peiper, Polish poet, born in Kraków, Poland (d. 1969)
• 1891-05-04 J. W. F. Werumeus Buning, Dutch poet (Daily Bread), born in Amsterdam (d. 1958)
• 1891-07-05 Tin Ujević, Croatian poet (Žedan kamen na studencu), born in Vrgorac, Austro-Hungarian Empire (d. 1955)
• 1891-07-08 Josef Hora, Czech writer/poet (Working Day)
• 1891-12-09 Maksim Bahdanovič, Belarusian poet, born in Minsk, Minsk Governorate, Russian Empire (d. 1917)

• 1892-02-04 E. J. Pratt, Canadian poet (d. 1964)
• 1892-02-22 Edna St Vincent Millay, poet/dramatist/feminist (Harp Weaver-Pulitzer Prize), born in Rockland, Maine (d. 1950)
• 1892-03-09 Josef Weinheber, Austrian poet and writer (Adel und Untergang), born in Vienna, Austria (d. 1945)
• 1892-03-09 Vita Sackville-West, English novelist, poet (The Land) and gardener (Sissinghurst), born in Knole House, Kent (d. 1962)
• 1892-03-16 Caesar Vallejo, Peruvian/French poet (Los Heraldos Negros)

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Famous Weddings

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Famous Divorces

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Famous Deaths

Deaths 801 - 900 of 1,513

• 1931-12-10 Max Elskamp, Belgian author and poet (Six Chansons), dies at 69
• 1932-03-01 Dino Campana, Italian poet (Canti Orfici), dies at 46
• 1932-04-27 Hart Crane, American poet (The Bridge), commits suicide at 32 by jumping overboard into the Gulf of Mexico
• 1932-05-03 Anton Wildgans, Austrian poet and playwright (Armut), dies at 51
• 1932-05-16 William Pember Reeves, politician/poet, dies
• 1932-06-12 René de Clerq, Flemish poet/writer (Book of Love), dies
• 1932-07-05 Sasha Chorny [Alexander Mikhailovich Glikberg], Russian poet, dies at 51
• 1933-01-29 Sara Teasdale, American poet (b. 1884)
• 1933-03-01 Uładzimir Žyłka, Belarusian poet, dies at 32
• 1933-04-29 Constantine P Cavafy, Egyptian Greek poet, journalist and civil servant, dies at 70
• 1933-12-04 Stefan George, German poet (Das neue Reich), dies at 65
• 1934-02-16 Eduard Bagritsky, Russian-Soviet poet and journalist (South-West), dies at 38
• 1934-03-26 Grete Gulbransson, Austrian writer and poet (Geliebte Schatten), dies at 51
• 1934-04-05 Salvatore Di Giacomo, Italian poet and songwriter during "Golden Age of Neapolitan Song", dies at 74
• 1934-07-04 Hayyim Nahman Bialik, Jewish poet, dies at 61
• 1935-04-06 Edward Arlington Robinson, American poet, dies
• 1935-07-17 George William Russell, Irish nationalist, poet and artist, dies at 68
• 1935-08-11 William Watson, British poet (Purple East), dies at 77
• 1935-11-23 Louise Mack, Australian poet and novelist, dies at 65
• 1935-11-30 Fernando Pessoa, Portuguese poet and writer (The Book of Disquiet), dies at 47
• 1936-02-02 Owen Seaman, British poet and editor (Punch), dies at 74
• 1936-04-30 A. E. Housman, English poet (A Shropshire Lad), dies at 77
• 1936-06-14 G. K. Chesterton [Gilbert Keith], English writer/poet (Father Brown), dies at 62
• 1936-07-02 Harry Northrup [Henri N.], French-born American poet and actor (The Heart of Maryland, The Unchastened Woman), dies at 60
• 1936-08-19 Federico Garcia Lorca, Spanish poet/composer, murdered at 37 or 38
• 1936-09-05 Gustave Kahn, French Symbolist poet and art critic (b. 1859)
• 1936-09-26 Harriet Monroe, American poet (Poet's Life), dies at 75
• 1936-10-25 Jaime de Magalhães Lima, Portuguese author and poet (Salmos do Prisoneiro), dies at 76
• 1936-12-31 Miguel de Unamuno Jugo, Span philosopher/poet (Cancionero), dies at 72
• 1937-01-14 Jaishankar Prasad, Hindi poet, dramatist and novelist, dies at 47
• 1937-03-08 Albert Verwey, Dutch poet/literature historian (Motion), dies at 71
• 1937-03-19 Horacio Quiroga, Uruguayan playwright, poet, and short story writer (Anaconda, El Crimen del Otro), commits suicide at 58
• 1937-03-23 Helge Rode, Danish poet/essayist, dies at 66
• 1937-03-25 John Drinkwater, English poet and playwright (Bird in Hand), dies at 54
• 1937-04-17 Yi Sang, Korean author and poet (Dying Words, Wings, Child’s Bone), dies of tuberculosis in a Japanese prison camp at 26
• 1937-07-18 Julian Bell, British poet (b. 1908)
• 1937-12-26 Ivor Gurney, English composer and poet, dies of tuberculosis at 47
• 1938-02-19 Leopoldo Lugones, Argentine poet (Las montañas del oro), dies at 63
• 1938-03-01 Gabriele D'Annunzio, Italian poet, writer (Il fuoco, Intruder), playwright and military hero as part of the elite Arditi storm troops, dies of a stroke at 74
• 1938-03-31 Willem Kloos, Dutch poet and critic (New Guide), dies at 78
• 1938-04-15 Caesar Vallejo, Peruvian-French poet (Trilce, Russia & 1931), dies at 46
• 1938-04-19 Henry John Newbolt, English poet and author (Studies Green & Gray), dies at 75
• 1938-04-21 Allama Iqbal, Indian philosopher and poet, dies at 60
• 1938-05-11 Arnold Sauwen, Flemish poet (Hours of Solitude), dies at 81
• 1938-06-22 C. J. Dennis, Australian poet (The Songs of a Sentimental Bloke), dies at 61
• 1938-06-30 Milan Rakic, Serbian poet (Nove Pesme), dies at 61
• 1938-09-17 Bruno Jasieński, Polish poet (b. 1901)
• 1938-10-25 Alfonsina Storni, Argentine poet (La inquietud del rosal), dies at 46
• 1938-10-27 Lascelles Abercrombie, English poet/critic, dies at 57
• 1938-11-01 Francis Jammes, French poet and writer (Jammisme), dies at 69
• 1939-01-28 W. B. Yeats, Irish poet (Wild Swans at Coole-Nobel 1923), dies at 73
• 1939-02-22 Antonio Machado, Spanish poet (Campos de Castilla), dies at 63
• 1939-07-19 Rose Hartwick Thorpe, American poet (Curfew Must Not Ring) and writer, dies at 89
• 1940-01-04 Conrad Weiss, German writer and poet (Heart of Words), dies at 59
• 1940-01-05 Humbert Wolfe, Italian-British poet (b. 1885)
• 1940-01-18 Kazimierz P Tetmajer, Polish writer/poet (Young Poland), dies at 74
• 1940-03-07 Edwin Markham, American poet (1st winner of American Academy of Poets Award 1937), dies at 87
• 1940-05-14 Eddy [Charles E] du Platform, writer/poet, dies
• 1940-05-14 Edgar du Perron, Dutch author and poet (Land of Origin), dies at 40
• 1940-05-20 Verner von Heidenstam, Swedish poet and novelist (Charles Men, Nobel 1916), dies at 80
• 1940-06-21 Hendrik Marsman, Dutch poet/writer/critic, drowns at 40
• 1940-08-21 Ernest Thayer, American poet who wrote the famous baseball poem "Casey", dies at 77
• 1940-09-03 Vilhelm Ekelund, Swedish poet and writer (Hafvets Stjorna), dies at 59
• 1940-09-26 William Henry Davies, Welsh poet (Autobiography of a Super Tramp), dies at 69
• 1941-02-05 Banjo Paterson, Australian poet, author of "Walzing Matilda" (b. 1864)
• 1941-03-13 Elizabeth Madox Roberts, American poet and novelist (The Time of Man), dies at 54
• 1941-06-15 Evelyn Underhill, British Anglo-Catholic poet, dies at 65
• 1941-06-20 [Stephanie] Hélène Swarth, Dutch poet ("Lonely flowers"), dies at 81
• 1941-07-21 Bohdan Lepky, Ukrainian writer and poet, dies at 68
• 1941-08-02 Jose Juan Tablada, Mexican poet (el Florilegio), dies at 70

• 1941-08-31 Marina Tsvetaeva, Russian poet (The Train of Life), committed suicide at 48
• 1941-11-01 Camille Melloy [the Paepe], Belgian priest/poet (Requiem), dies at 50
• 1941-11-07 Albin Zollinger, Swiss poet/author (Das Gewitter), dies at 46
• 1941-11-18 Émile Nelligan, Quebec poet (b. 1879)
• 1941-12-11 John Gillespie Magee, Jr., American poet and aviator (b. 1922)
• 1941-12-20 Igor Severyanin, Russian poet (b. 1887)
• 1942-02-02 Daniil Kharms [Yuvatchov], Russian surrealist and absurdist writer, poet, and playwright, dies of starvation during the siege of Leningrad at 36
• 1942-02-23 Stefan Zweig, Austrian poet, essayist and dramatist (Beware of Pity), dies at 60
• 1942-03-28 Miguel Hernadez Gilabert, Spanish poet (Viento del Pueblo), dies at 31
• 1942-04-30 Jakob van Hoddis [[Hans Davidsohn]], German Jewish poet, transported to German concentration camp at 54 (actual date of death unknown)
• 1942-05-29 Akiko Yosano, Japanese poet (Tangled Hair), dies at 63
• 1942-07-23 Nikola J Vaptsarov, Bulgaria poet/communist, executed at 32
• 1942-10-10 Richard von Schaukal, Moravian-Austria poet and writer (Schlemihle), dies at 68
• 1943-01-12 Jan Campert, Dutch resistance fighter and poet (18 Dead), dies at 40
• 1943-02-27 Kostis Palamas, Greek poet, twice nominated for the Nobel prize (b. 1859)
• 1943-03-04 Pieter C Boutens, Dutch poet (Beatrijs), dies at 73
• 1943-04-07 Jovan Ducic, Serbian poet (Blue Legends), dies at 72
• 1943-04-29 Sidney A K Keyes, English poet (Foreign Gate), dies at 20
• 1943-06-13 Kočo Racin, Macedonian poet (b. 1908)
• 1943-07-08 Guillermo Valencia, Colombian poet, translator and statesman, dies at 69
• 1943-10-24 Hector de Saint-Denys Garneau, French Canadian poet (Regards et jeux dans l'espace), dies at 31
• 1943-12-02 Nordahl Grieg, Norwegian poet, dramatist and novelist (The Defeat), dies at 41
• 1944-01-03 Jurgis Baltrušaitis, Lithuanian poet (b. 1873)
• 1944-01-07 Napoleon Lapathiotis, Greek poet, dies at 56
• 1944-01-14 Mohammed Emin Yurdakul, Turkish poet, dies at about 74
• 1944-01-23 Viktor Gusev, Russian poet (b. 1909)
• 1944-03-05 Max Jacob, French poet and writer, dies in nazi concentration camp at 67
• 1944-04-04 John Peale Bishop, American poet (Undertaker's Garland), dies at 51
• 1944-04-05 Isolde Kurz, German writer/poetess (Meine Mutter), dies at 90

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