Charles Bukowski16 August 1920, German, American
Poet
Francis Scott Key01 August 1779, American
Lawyer
Aldous Huxley26 July 1894, British, American
Writer
Dorothy Parker22 August 1893, American
Poet
Emily Brontë30 July 1818, British
Novelist
Walter Scott15 August 1771, Scottish
Novelist
Ted Hughes17 August 1930, British
Poet and Children's Writer
Guy de Maupassant05 August 1850, French
Novelist & Short Story Writer
Robert Graves24 July 1895, British
Poet & Novelist
Philip Larkin09 August 1922, British
Poet
Wendell Berry05 August 1934, American
John Dryden09 August 1631, British
poet
Rupert Brooke03 August 1887, British
Poet
Knut Hamsun04 August 1859, Norwegian
Writer
Ogden Nash19 August 1902, American
Poet
Herta Müller17 August 1953, German
Writer
Robert Hayden04 August 1913, American
Poet, Essayist, Educator
Salvatore Quasimodo20 August 1901, Italian
Author & Poet
Chairil Anwar26 July 1922, Indonesian
Poet
Al Alvarez05 August 1929, British
Poet
Alfred Lord Tennyson05 August 1809, British
Poet
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Khurshidbanu Natavan06 August 1832, Azerbaijani
Poet
P B Shelley04 August 1792, British
Poet
Percy Bysshe Shelley04 August 1792, British
Linguist, Poet, Translator, Writer, Playwright,
Gulzar18 August 1936, Indian
film director, film producer, screenwriter,
Meena Kumari01 August 1933, Indian
Actress
Alfred, Lord Tennyson06 August 1809, British
Poet
Jim Carroll01 August 1949, American
Writer
Thurston Moore25 July 1958, American
Musician
Gerard Manley Hopkins28 July 1844, British
Poet, Writer
William Ernest Henley23 August 1849, British
Poet
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Katharine Lee Bates12 August 1859, American
poet, writer, university teacher, songwriter
E. Nesbit15 August 1858, British
Author
Elizabeth Siddal25 July 1829, British
Painter, Poet, Art model, Visual artist, Model
Robert Southey12 August 1774, British
Poet
Chris Marker29 July 1921, French
Film producer, Film critic, Film director,
Alexander Theroux17 August 1939, American
Writer
Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany24 July 1878, Irish, British
Dramatist
Diana Vickers30 July 1991, British
Singer, Poet, Singer-songwriter, Stage actor, Film
C. Narayana Reddy29 July 1931, Indian
Author, Politician, Poet, Lyricist, Songwriter
Antonio Machado26 July 1875, Spanish
Poet, Writer, Playwright
Radclyffe Hall12 August 1880, British
Poet
Sara Teasdale08 August 1884, American
Poet, Writer
John Ashbery28 July 1927, American
Poet, Writer, University teacher, Journalist
Willem Arondeus22 August 1894
Poet, Writer, Painter
Subhadra Kumari Chauhan16 August 1904, Indian
Author, Poet
Maithili Sharan Gupt03 August 1886, Indian
Linguist, Poet, Politician, Translator
Jorge Amado10 August 1912, Brazilian
Writer, Journalist, Poet, Novelist, Lawyer,
Edgar Guest20 August 1881, American
Poet
Bolesław Prus20 August 1847, Polish
Journalist
Hugh MacDiarmid11 August 1892, Scottish
Poet
Paul Claudel06 August 1868, French
Playwright, Poet, Diplomat, Writer, Diarist, Poet
Ed Sanders17 August 1939, American
Musician, Writer
François Fénelon06 August 1651, French
Theologian
Ernest Dowson02 August 1867, British
Poet
Mary Gilmore16 August 1865, Australian
Journalist, Poet, Writer
Conrad Aiken05 August 1889, American
Writer
Giosuè Carducci27 July 1835, Italian
Writer, Poet, Journalist
George Peele25 July 1556, British
Translator
Balachandran Chullikadu30 July 1957, Indian
Arthur Waley19 August 1889, British
Translator
Letitia Elizabeth Landon14 August 1802, British
Poet
Diane di Prima06 August 1934, American
Poet
Muhammad Mahdi al-Jawahiri26 July 1900, Iraqi
Poet
Laurence Binyon10 August 1869, British
Librarian, Art historian, Author, University
Valerie Eliot17 August 1926, British
Poet
Oliver St. John Gogarty17 August 1878, Irish
Poet
Fernando Arrabal11 August 1932, Spanish, French
Screenwriter, Film director, Actor, Playwright,
Stanley Kunitz29 July 1905, American
Educator, Poet
Dmitry Merezhkovsky02 August 1865, Russian
Novelist
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt17 August 1840, British
Poet
Harry Mulisch29 July 1927, Dutch
Novelist, Poet, Playwright, Essayist, Writer,
Charlotte Forten Grimké17 August 1837, American
Poet
Henry Cuyler Bunner03 August 1855, American
Novelist
Duncan Campbell Scott02 August 1862, Canadian
Poet, Writer, Civil servant
Cees Nooteboom31 July 1933, Dutch
Novelist
Christopher Okigbo16 August 1932, Nigerian
Poet
Bei Dao02 August 1949, Chinese, American
Writer
Ouyang Xiu01 August 1007, Chinese
Essayist
Béla Balázs04 August 1884, Hungarian
Film critic
Sylvain Maréchal15 August 1750, French
Essayist
Grand Duke Constantine Constantinovich of Russia22 August 1858, Russian
Nikolaus Lenau13 August 1802, Austrian
Poet
Florine Stettheimer19 August 1871, American
Painter
Jules Laforgue16 August 1860, French, Uruguayan
Poet
Amjad Islam Amjad04 August 1944, Pakistani
Poet
Ivar Aasen05 August 1813, Norwegian
Philologist, Lexicographer, Playwright, Poet
Pierre-Jean de Béranger19 August 1780, French
Poet
Peter Viereck05 August 1916, American
Poet
Evan S. Connell17 August 1924, American
Author
Tarjei Vesaas20 August 1897, Norwegian
Poet
Ueda Akinari25 July 1734, Japanese
Author
Samuel David Luzzatto22 August 1800, Italian
Scholar
Louise Bogan11 August 1897, American
Poet