Henry David Thoreau12 July 1817, American
Writer and Philosopher
Pablo Neruda12 July 1904, Chilean
Chilean poet
Petrarch20 July 1304, Italian
Poet & Philosopher
Jean Cocteau05 July 1889, French
Novelist, Poet, Artist & Filmmaker
Paul Laurence Dunbar27 June 1872, American
Poet
Aphra Behn10 July 1640, British
Playwright
John Clare13 July 1793, British
English poet
Czesław Miłosz30 June 1911, Polish
Poet
Wisława Szymborska02 July 1923, Polish
Nobel Laureate in Literature
Lucille Clifton27 June 1936, American
American poet
Reinaldo Arenas16 July 1943, Cuban
Cuban poet
John Gay30 June 1685, British
Dramatist & Poet
Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay27 June 1838, Indian
Mirza Fatali Akhundov12 July 1812, Azerbaijani
Writer and Philisopher
Edward Young03 July 1683, British
Poet
Francesco Petrarch20 July 1304, Italian
Poet, Scholar and Humanist
Yanka Kupala07 July 1882, Belarusian, Russian
Poet
Elin Pelin08 July 1877, Bulgarian
Writer
Manuel Ortiz Guerrero16 July 1897, Paraguayan
Poet
Marty Feldman08 July 1934, American
Actor, Comedian, Screenwriter, Poet
Kannadasan24 June 1927, Indian
Poet, Lyricist, Songwriter
Craig Charles11 July 1964, British
Actor
Vairamuthu13 July 1953, Indian
Author, Actor, Poet, Lyricist, Songwriter
Iris Murdoch15 July 1919, Irish
Poet, Philosopher, Novelist, Writer, Biographer
Clement Clarke Moore15 July 1779, American
Author
Abbas Kiarostami22 June 1940, Iranian
Film director, Screenwriter, Photographer, Film
Vladimir Mayakovsky19 July 1893, Russian
Poet
Anna Akhmatova23 June 1889, Ukrainian, Russian
Writer, Translator, Literary critic, Poet
Lafcadio Hearn27 June 1850, Greek, Irish, Japanese
Writer, Novelist, Screenwriter, University
Emma Lazarus22 July 1849, American
Poet, Writer, Journalist
Isaac Watts17 July 1674, British
Theologian
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Jean de La Fontaine08 July 1621, French
Writer, Poet, Lawyer
Branwell Brontë26 June 1817, British
Painter, Poet, Writer
Arthur de Gobineau14 July 1816, French
Racial theorist, Philosopher, Writer, Diplomat,
Shiv Kumar Batalvi23 July 1936, Indian
Author, Poet, Lyricist, Songwriter
Peter Orlovsky08 July 1933, American
Poet, Writer, Actor
Giacomo Leopardi29 June 1798, Italian
Writer, Poet, Philosopher, Philologist
Mervyn Peake09 July 1911, Chinese, British
Writer
Na. Muthukumar12 July 1975, Indian
Poet
Northrop Frye14 July 1912, Canadian
Writer, Philosopher, Educationist, Cleric, Poet,
Hart Crane21 July 1899, American
Poet, Writer
Gaston Bachelard27 June 1884, French
Philosopher, Poet, Writer, University teacher
Nur Muhammad Taraki15 July 1917, Afghan
Politician, Poet, Writer, Journalist
Laurie Lee26 June 1914, British
Screenwriter, Poet, Autobiographer, Journalist
Hannah Szenes17 July 1921, Hungarian
Writer, Poet
Jayachamarajendra Wadiyar18 July 1919, Indian
Poet, Composer, Philosopher, Philanthropist,
Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven12 July 1874, German
Sculptor, Writer, Painter, Model, Poet, Artist
Elizabeth Jennings18 July 1926, British
Poet
Mattie Stepanek17 July 1990, American
Poet, Author, Writer
Stephen Vincent Benét22 July 1898, American
Writer
Balamani Amma19 July 1909, Indian
Author
Ingeborg Bachmann25 June 1926, Austrian
Poet, Writer, Journalist, Screenwriter,
Max Jacob12 July 1876, French
Painter, Poet, Writer, Literary critic
Nicolás Guillén10 July 1902, Cuban
Poet
Robert Desnos04 July 1900, French
Poet
Léon Bloy11 July 1846, French
Writer, Poet, Essayist, Journalist, Novelist,
Nagarjun30 June 1911, Indian
Poet, Writer
Luis de Góngora11 July 1561, Spanish
Poet, cleric
Richard Aldington08 July 1892, British
Writer
Poliziano14 July 1454, Italian
Poet
Miroslav Krleža07 July 1893, Croatian
Croatian author
Mohammed Dib21 July 1920, Algerian
Author
Edward Bond18 July 1934, British
Writer, Screenwriter, Playwright, Poet, Theatre
Alice Dunbar Nelson19 July 1875, American
Poet
Yves Bonnefoy24 June 1923, French
Poet
David Diop09 July 1927, French
Poet
Dom Moraes19 July 1938, Indian
Writer
Francis Bebey15 July 1929, Cameroonian
Writer
Tess Gallagher21 July 1943, American
Poet
Gottfried Keller19 July 1819, Swiss
Swiss poet
Vasile Alecsandri21 July 1821, Moldovan
Poet
Edmund Clerihew Bentley10 July 1875, British
Novelist
Margaret Walker07 July 1915, American
novelist, poet, university teacher, writer
Ivan Vazov27 June 1850, Bulgarian
Poet
Coventry Patmore23 July 1823, British
Poet
Lisa Robertson22 July 1961, Canadian
Poet
John Flaxman06 July 1755, British
Painter, Poet, Sculptor, Illustrator
Luis Muñoz Rivera17 July 1859, Puerto Rican
Poet
Linda Hogan16 July 1947, American
Poet
Manuel Vázquez Montalbán14 July 1939, Spanish
Writer
Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock02 July 1724, German
German poet
James Purdy17 July 1914, American
Novelist
Paul Scarron04 July 1610, French
Poet
Juan del Encina12 July 1468, Spanish
Composer
William Irwin Thompson16 July 1938, American
Historian, Novelist, Poet, Mythographer
Eino Leino06 July 1878, Finnish
Poet
Henry Dumas20 July 1934, American
Writer
Verner von Heidenstam06 July 1859, Swedish
Swedish poet
José Emilio Pacheco30 June 1939, Mexican
Poet
Simin Behbahani20 July 1927, Iranian
Poet
Vasko Popa29 June 1922, Serbian
Poet
James K. Baxter29 June 1926, New Zealander
Poet
Ramón Gómez de la Serna03 July 1888, Spanish
Writer
Floyd Dell28 June 1887, American
Novelist