Roald Dahl13 September 1916
Novelist
J. R. R. Tolkien03 January 1892
Writer
Aleister Crowley12 October 1875
Occultist
Ted Hughes17 August 1930
Poet and Children's Writer
W. H. Auden21 February 1907
Poet
Harold Pinter10 October 1930
Nobel Prize Winner in Literature
Alfred Douglas22 October 1870
Poet
Philip Larkin09 August 1922
Poet
Carol Ann Duffy23 December 1955
C. Day Lewis27 April 1904
Poet
Dorothy L. Sayers13 June 1893
Writer
Kingsley Amis16 April 1922
Poet, novelist and lecturer
John Berger05 November 1926
Novelist
Al Alvarez05 August 1929
Poet
Adrian Mitchell24 October 1932
Poet
Charles Salvador06 December 1952
Poet, Autobiographer, Boxer
Michaela Coel01 October 1987
Actress
Donovan10 May 1946
Singer-songwriter, Guitarist, Composer,
Michael Rosen07 May 1946
Writer, Children's writer, YouTuber, Novelist,
Johnny Marr31 October 1963
Guitarist, Poet, Singer, Songwriter, Record
John Cooper Clarke25 January 1949
Poet
Jeremy Lloyd22 July 1930
Writer
Craig Charles11 July 1964
Actor
Vita Sackville-West09 March 1892
Writer
Frieda Hughes01 April 1960
Painter, Poet, Writer, Children's writer
Benjamin Zephaniah15 April 1958
Actor, Poet, Writer, Singer
Genesis P-Orridge22 February 1950
Singer-songwriter
David Knopfler27 December 1952
Singer
Eric Sykes04 May 1923
Actor
Nik Kershaw01 March 1958
Singer-songwriter, Composer, Singer, Poet
Simon Armitage26 May 1963
Poet
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Politician
Akala01 December 1983
Rapper
Rumer Godden10 December 1907
Author
John Betjeman28 August 1906
Poet
Daniel Tammet31 January 1979
Writer
William Ernest Henley23 August 1849
Poet
Stephen Spender28 February 1909
Poet
Diana Vickers30 July 1991
Singer, Poet, Singer-songwriter, Stage actor, Film
John Webster1578 AD
Playwright, Poet, Writer, Poet lawyer
E. Nesbit15 August 1858
Author
Ford Madox Ford17 December 1873
Novelist
Laurie Lee26 June 1914
Screenwriter, Poet, Autobiographer, Journalist
Walter de La Mare25 April 1873
Poet
Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany24 July 1878
Dramatist
Leslie Bricusse29 January 1931
Composer, Musician, Playwright, Lyricist,
Mark Haddon26 September 1962
Writer
Oskar Kokoschka01 March 1886
Painter, Playwright, Writer, Poet, University
Edward Thomas03 March 1878
Poet
Vivian Stanshall21 March 1943
Musician
John Masefield01 June 1878
Poet
Peter Ackroyd05 October 1949
Writer
Mervyn Peake09 July 1911
Writer
Roger McGough09 November 1937
Author, Writer
Radclyffe Hall12 August 1880
Poet
Victor Spinetti02 September 1929
Actor
Jake Thackray27 February 1938
Singer-songwriter, Poet
Stevie Smith20 September 1902
Poet, Illustrator, Novelist, Performer, Writer
John Agard21 June 1949
Playwright, Writer, Poet, Children's writer
Heathcote Williams15 November 1941
Actor, Poet, Author, Screenwriter, Writer
Jacob Bronowski18 January 1908
Mathematician, Poet, Non-fiction writer
Alasdair Gray28 December 1934
Writer, Poet, Novelist, Science fiction writer
Felix Dennis27 May 1947
Publisher
George Meredith12 February 1828
Novelist
Louis MacNeice12 September 1907
Poet, Writer, Playwright
Eleanor Farjeon13 February 1881
Writer
David Tibet05 March 1960
Musician, Painter, Poet
Renée Vivien11 June 1877
Poet
Sylvia Townsend Warner06 December 1893
Novelist
Roland Penrose14 October 1900
Artist
Andrew Motion26 October 1952
Poet
R. S. Thomas29 March 1913
Poet
Evelyn Underhill06 December 1875
Writer
Robert Service16 January 1874
Writer, Poet, Novelist
Edward Bond18 July 1934
Writer, Screenwriter, Playwright, Poet, Theatre
Henry Newbolt06 June 1862
Poet
Robert Bridges23 October 1844
Poet
Olivia Manning02 March 1908
Novelist
Elizabeth Jennings18 July 1926
Poet
Mina Loy27 December 1882
Poet
Herbert Read04 December 1893
Art Historian
Harold Acton05 July 1904
Writer
Francis Thompson18 December 1859
Poet
Thom Gunn29 August 1929
Writer
Arnold Bax08 November 1883
Composer
Sacheverell Sitwell15 November 1897
Writer
Denise Levertov24 October 1923
Poet
Valerie Eliot17 August 1926
Poet
John Cowper Powys08 October 1872
Philosopher
William Empson27 September 1906
Literary Critic
Stella Gibbons05 January 1902
Writer
James Fenton25 April 1949
Poet
Kenneth E. Boulding18 January 1910
Economist, University teacher, Philosopher,
Arthur Quiller-Couch21 November 1863
Writer