Lord Byron22 January 1788, British
Poet, Politician
Robert Burns25 January 1759, Scottish
Poet and Lyricist
Sarojini Naidu13 February 1879, Indian
Poet and Freedom Fighter
Langston Hughes01 February 1902, American
Poet, Novelist, Playwright, & Columnist
James Joyce02 February 1882, Irish
Writer
Bertolt Brecht10 February 1898, German
Poet
Gertrude Stein03 February 1874, American
American novelist
John Donne22 January 1572, British
Poet, lawyer, satirist
Boris Pasternak10 February 1890, Russian, Russian
Poet & Writer
Audre Lorde18 February 1934, American
Writer
Neal Cassady08 February 1926, American
August Strindberg22 January 1849, Swedish
Novelist
Derek Walcott23 January 1930, Saint Lucian
Poet
François Rabelais04 February 1494, French
Writer
Carson McCullers19 February 1917, American
American novelist
Leon Battista Alberti18 February 1404, Italian
Architect, Linguist
Elizabeth Bishop08 February 1911, American
Poet
Nikos Kazantzakis18 February 1883, Greek
Philosopher and Writer
Banjo Paterson17 February 1864, Australian
Poet
Giuseppe Ungaretti08 February 1888, Italian
Poet, Essayist
A. R. Ammons18 February 1926, American
Poet
Aharon Appelfeld16 February 1932, Israeli
Writer
Fleur Adcock10 February 1934, New Zealander
Poet
Andre Breton19 February 1896, French
Founder of Surrealism
Georges LeBar24 January 1973, Australian
Author
Kumar Vishwas10 February 1970, Indian
Politician
John Cooper Clarke25 January 1949, British
Poet
Exene Cervenka01 February 1956, American
singer
Daniel Tammet31 January 1979, British
Writer
Margaret Truman17 February 1924, American
actor, novelist, writer, biographer
Michael Madhusudan Dutt25 January 1824, Indian
Poet, Writer
D. R. Bendre31 January 1896, Indian
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Richard Brautigan30 January 1935, American
Writer, Poet, Novelist
Jaishankar Prasad30 January 1889, Indian
Poet
Vladimir Vysotsky25 January 1938, Russian
Singer-songwriter
Leslie Bricusse29 January 1931, British
Composer, Musician, Playwright, Lyricist,
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing22 January 1729, German
Writer, Philosopher, Playwright, Poet, Librarian,
Thomas Bernhard09 February 1931, Austrian, Dutch
Writer, Novelist, Playwright, Screenwriter, Poet
Ismail Kadare28 January 1936, Albanian
Novelist, poet, essayist
Muriel Spark01 February 1918, Scottish
Novelist
Jibanananda Das17 February 1899, Bangladeshi
Poet, Writer
James Dickey02 February 1923, American
American poet
John Tavener28 January 1944, British
Composer, Poet, Musician
William Congreve24 January 1670, British
Playwright, Poet, Writer, Translator
Abel Meeropol10 February 1903, American
Poet, Songwriter, Writer
Francis Picabia22 January 1879, French
Painter, Writer, Screenwriter, Poet
Yevgeny Zamyatin01 February 1884, French
Author
Jacques Prévert04 February 1900, French
Poet
Du Fu12 February 0712, Chinese
Chinese poet
Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer17 February 1836, Spanish
Poet, Short story writer, Playwright, Writer
Helen Gurley Brown18 February 1922, American
American author
Francesco Redi18 February 1626, Italian
Physician, Naturalist, Poet, Writer, Painter,
Lydia Maria Child11 February 1802, American
Novelist, Poet, Journalist, Writer
Veturi Sundararama Murthy29 January 1936, Indian
Poet, Songwriter, Lyricist
Jan Nisar Akhtar14 February 1914, Indian
author, poet, lyricist, songwriter
Philip José Farmer26 January 1918, American
American author
Sidney Lanier03 February 1842, American
Musician
Kavi Pradeep06 February 1915, Indian
Poet, Singer, Lyricist, Songwriter
Hugo von Hofmannsthal01 February 1874, Austrian
Novelist, Librettist, Poet, Playwright, Writer,
Amy Lowell09 February 1874, American
Poet, Writer, Socialite
Juan Pablo Duarte26 January 1813, Dominican
Writer
Rufus Wilmot Griswold13 February 1815, American
Journalist, Writer, Literary critic, Poet
George Meredith12 February 1828, British
Novelist
Hannah More02 February 1745, British
Writer, Poet, Essayist
Eleanor Farjeon13 February 1881, British
Writer
Joaquín Sabina12 February 1949, Spanish
Singer-songwriter, Poet, Singer, Writer,
Samuel Palmer27 January 1805, British
Painter, Poet
Walter Savage Landor30 January 1775, British
Author
Russell Hoban04 February 1925, American
Writer
Georg Trakl03 February 1887, Austrian
Poet, Writer
Morteza Motahhari31 January 1919, Iranian
Philosopher, Writer, Akhoond, Theologian
Else Lasker-Schüler11 February 1869, German
Poet
Meena Alexander17 February 1951, Indian
Poet
Matsudaira Katamori15 February 1836, Japanese
Poet
Vasily Zhukovsky29 January 1783, Russian
linguist, poet, translator, writer, literary
Arthur Hallam01 February 1811, British
Poet
Silas Weir Mitchell15 February 1829, American
Physician
Galway Kinnell01 February 1927, American
Poet
Adelbert von Chamisso30 January 1781, German, French
Botanist, Poet, Pteridologist, Bryologist, Writer
Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle11 February 1657, French
Philosopher, Poet, Writer, Playwright, Satirist,
Reynolds Price01 February 1933, American
Poet
Mikołaj Rej04 February 1505, Polish
poet, writer
K. S. Narasimhaswamy26 January 1915, Indian
Author
Eliza R. Snow21 January 1804, American
Poet
Ignacy Krasicki03 February 1735, Polish
Poet
Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin27 January 1826, Russian
Poet
Johan Ludvig Runeberg05 February 1804, Finnish
Poet
Gelett Burgess30 January 1866, American
Artist
Marcel Broodthaers28 January 1924, Belgian
Poet, Sculptor, Painter
Bert Kalmar10 February 1884, American
Lyricist, Songwriter, Screenwriter
Ludwig Achim von Arnim26 January 1781, German
Poet
Alden Nowlan25 January 1933, Canadian
Novelist
David Antin01 February 1932, American
Art critic, Poet, Performance artist
Sheyann Webb17 February 1956, German, American
Author
Samuel Butler03 February 1612, British
Poet
Ugo Betti04 February 1892, Italian
Poet, Writer, Playwright, Judge