Ralph Waldo Emerson25 May 1803, American
American Lecturer, Philosopher, Essayist & Poet
Walt Whitman31 May 1819, American
Poet & humanist
Allen Ginsberg03 June 1926, American
Poet
W B Yeats13 June 1865, Irish
Poet & Dramatist
Vinayak Damodar Savarkar28 May 1883, Indian
Independence Activist, Reformer
Alexander Pushkin06 June 1799, Russian
Poet
Thomas Hardy02 June 1840, British
Novelist & Poet
Federico García Lorca05 June 1898, Spanish
Poet
Ben Jonson11 June 1572, British
Dramatist, Poet & Actor
Joyce Carol Oates16 June 1938, American
Writer
Kazi Nazrul Islam24 May 1899, Bangladeshi, Indian
National Poet of Bangladesh
Vikram Seth20 June 1952, Indian
Writer
James Weldon Johnson17 June 1871, American
Author
Giovanni Boccaccio16 June 1313, Italian
Writer
Ahmed Raza Khan Barelvi14 June 1856, Indian
Islamic Scholar, Reformer
Dorothy L. Sayers13 June 1893, British
Writer
Gwendolyn Brooks07 June 1917, American
Poet
Fernando Pessoa13 June 1888, Portuguese
Thomas Moore28 May 1779, Irish
Poet
Joseph Brodsky24 May 1940, Russian
Essayist & Poet
Hélène Cixous05 June 1937, Algerian
Professor
Henry Lawson17 June 1867, Australian
Writer
Theodore Roethke25 May 1908, American
Pulitzer Prize Winning Poet
Judith Wright31 May 1915, Australian
Poet, Environmentalist, Campaigner for Aboriginal
Aleksa Šantić27 May 1868, Bosnian
Poet
Augusto Roa Bastos13 June 1917, Paraguayan
Novelist
Oscar Milosz28 May 1877, French
Poet
David Wagoner05 June 1926, American
Poet, Novelist, Professor
Amy Clampitt15 June 1920, American
Poet
Jewel23 May 1974, American
Singer-Songwriter
William Butler Yeats13 June 1865, Irish
Poet
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Viktor Tsoi21 June 1962, Russian
Poet, Actor, Singer, Guitarist, Composer,
Nikki Giovanni07 June 1943, American
Poet, Writer
Robert Ludlum25 May 1927, American
American author
Bernie Casey08 June 1939, American
Actor
Christy Brown05 June 1932, Northern Irish
Writer
Simon Armitage26 May 1963, British
Poet
Louise Erdrich07 June 1954, American
Author
Henrik, Prince Consort of Denmark11 June 1934, Danish, French
Poet, Writer, Visual artist, Pianist
K'naan30 May 1978, Canadian, Somalian
Poet
Moondog26 May 1916, American
Musician
Philip Kotler27 May 1931, American
Author
Adam Zagajewski21 June 1945, Polish
poet,novelist
Banks16 June 1988, American
Singer
Fatima Bhutto29 May 1982, Pakistani
Journalist, Writer, Poet
Countee Cullen30 May 1903
American poet
Colm Toibin30 May 1955, Irish
Novelist
Ruth Benedict05 June 1887, American
Anthropologist, Folklorist, University teacher,
Julia Ward Howe27 May 1819, American
Songwriter, poet
Anne Carson21 June 1950, Canadian
Linguist, Poet, Translator, Writer, University
Naim Frasheri25 May 1846, Albanian
Historian
John Masefield01 June 1878, British
Poet
Bülent Ecevit28 May 1925, Turkish
Politician, Writer, Poet, Translator, Journalist,
O. N. V. Kurup27 May 1931, Indian
Poet, Lyricist, Songwriter
Chico Buarque19 June 1944, Brazilian
Singer, Composer, Poet, Writer, Playwright, Jazz
John Agard21 June 1949, British
Playwright, Writer, Poet, Children's writer
Moufdi Zakaria12 June 1908, Algerian
Poet, Writer, Songwriter
Adah Isaacs Menken15 June 1835, French, American
Actress
Varlam Shalamov18 June 1907, Russian
Writer
Paul Beatty09 June 1962, American
Novelist, Poet
Felix Dennis27 May 1947, British
Publisher
Gérard de Nerval25 May 1808, French
Writer
Alfonsina Storni29 May 1892, Argentinian
Poet, Journalist, diarist
Renée Vivien11 June 1877, British
Poet
Sarah Kay19 June 1988, American
poet
Sayat-Nova14 June 1712, Armenian
Poet
G. Sankara Kurup03 June 1901, Indian
Politician, Poet
Paul Muldoon20 June 1951, Northern Irish
Poet, Author, University teacher, Writer
Mark Van Doren13 June 1894, American
Poet, Autobiographer, Literary critic, University
Rosario Castellanos25 May 1925, Mexican
Poet, Diplomat, Writer, Screenwriter, University
Kobayashi Issa15 June 1763, Japanese
Poet
Henry Newbolt06 June 1862, British
Poet
Rodolfo Gonzales18 June 1928, American
Boxer
Carol Shields02 June 1935, Canadian, American
Novelist
Emperor Dezong of Tang27 May 0742, Chinese
Emperor of Tang Dynasty
N. Richard Nash08 June 1913, American
Writer
Raymond Radiguet18 June 1903, French
Novelist
Stefan George12 June 1868, German
poet, writer, linguist, translator
Harry Crosby04 June 1898, American
Poet
Thomas Overbury18 June 1581, British
Poet
Thomas Hood23 May 1799, British
Writer, Poet
Shane Koyczan22 May 1976, Canadian
Anna Letitia Barbauld20 June 1743, British
Poet
Ang Duong12 June 1796, Cambodian
King
Henri Michaux24 May 1899, Belgian, French
Painter, Poet, Writer
Ibn-e-Insha15 June 1927, Pakistani
poet
André Brink29 May 1935, South African
Novelist
Arthur Cravan22 May 1887, Swiss, French
Writer
Eduardo De Filippo24 May 1900, Italian
Film director, Actor, Poet, Screenwriter,
Saint-John Perse31 May 1887, French, Guadeloupean
Poet, Writer, Diplomat
George Lamming08 June 1927, Barbadian
Novelist
Pär Lagerkvist23 May 1891, Swedish
Writer, Poet, Playwright, Essayist, Screenwriter
Kathleen Raine14 June 1908, British
Poet
Tamim al-Barghouti13 June 1977, Egyptian, Palestinian
Poet