Aldous Huxley26 July 1894, British, American
Writer
Charles Bukowski16 August 1920, German, American
Poet
P B Shelley04 August 1792, British
Poet
Dorothy Parker22 August 1893, American
Poet
Emily Brontë30 July 1818, British
Novelist
Ted Hughes17 August 1930, British
Poet and Children's Writer
Alfred Lord Tennyson05 August 1809, British
Poet
Walter Scott15 August 1771, Scottish
Novelist
Guy de Maupassant05 August 1850, French
Novelist & Short Story Writer
Francis Scott Key01 August 1779, American
Lawyer
Philip Larkin09 August 1922, British
Poet
John Dryden09 August 1631, British
poet
Robert Graves24 July 1895, British
Poet & Novelist
Wendell Berry05 August 1934, American
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
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Khurshidbanu Natavan06 August 1832, Azerbaijani
Poet
Al Alvarez05 August 1929, British
Poet
Salvatore Quasimodo20 August 1901, Italian
Author & Poet
Chairil Anwar26 July 1922, Indonesian
Poet
Meena Kumari01 August 1933, Indian
Actress
Alfred, Lord Tennyson06 August 1809, British
Poet
Jim Carroll01 August 1949, American
Writer
Gerard Manley Hopkins28 July 1844, British
Poet, Writer
E. Nesbit15 August 1858, British
Author
William Ernest Henley23 August 1849, British
Poet
Jose Garcia Villa05 August 1908, Filipino
Poet
Elizabeth Siddal25 July 1829, British
Painter, Poet, Art model, Visual artist, Model
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Chris Marker29 July 1921, French
Film producer, Film critic, Film director,
Robert Southey12 August 1774, British
Poet
Diana Vickers30 July 1991, British
Singer, Poet, Singer-songwriter, Stage actor, Film
Tongayi Chirisa08 August 1981, Zimbabwean
Actor
Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany24 July 1878, Irish, British
Dramatist
Maithili Sharan Gupt03 August 1886, Indian
Linguist, Poet, Politician, Translator
Felice Bryant07 August 1925, American
Musician
Alexander Theroux17 August 1939, American
Writer
Katharine Lee Bates12 August 1859, American
poet, writer, university teacher, songwriter
Antonio Machado26 July 1875, Spanish
Poet, Writer, Playwright
Subhadra Kumari Chauhan16 August 1904, Indian
Author, Poet
Diane di Prima06 August 1934, American
Poet
Abai Kunanbaiuli10 August 1845, Kazakh
Poet
Radclyffe Hall12 August 1880, British
Poet
John Ashbery28 July 1927, American
Poet, Writer, University teacher, Journalist
Sara Teasdale08 August 1884, American
Poet, Writer
Grand Duke Constantine Constantinovich of Russia22 August 1858, Russian
Edgar Guest20 August 1881, American
Poet
Sugawara Michizane01 August 0845, Japanese
Scholar and statesman
Balachandran Chullikadu30 July 1957, Indian
François Fénelon06 August 1651, French
Theologian
C. Narayana Reddy29 July 1931, Indian
Author, Politician, Poet, Lyricist, Songwriter
Paul Claudel06 August 1868, French
Playwright, Poet, Diplomat, Writer, Diarist, Poet
Ed Sanders17 August 1939, American
Musician, Writer
Laurence Binyon10 August 1869, British
Librarian, Art historian, Author, University
Jorge Amado10 August 1912, Brazilian
Writer, Journalist, Poet, Novelist, Lawyer,
Hugh MacDiarmid11 August 1892, Scottish
Poet
Valerie Eliot17 August 1926, British
Poet
Mary Gilmore16 August 1865, Australian
Journalist, Poet, Writer
Ernest Dowson02 August 1867, British
Poet
Conrad Aiken05 August 1889, American
Writer
George Peele25 July 1556, British
Translator
Willem Arondeus22 August 1894
Poet, Writer, Painter
Bolesław Prus20 August 1847, Polish
Journalist
Geza Szocs21 August 1953, Hungarian, Romanian
Poet
Giosuè Carducci27 July 1835, Italian
Writer, Poet, Journalist
Arthur Waley19 August 1889, British
Translator
Letitia Elizabeth Landon14 August 1802, British
Poet
Thomas Campbell27 July 1777, Scottish
Poet
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt17 August 1840, British
Poet
Harry Mulisch29 July 1927, Dutch
Novelist, Poet, Playwright, Essayist, Writer,
Duncan Campbell Scott02 August 1862, Canadian
Poet, Writer, Civil servant
Fernando Arrabal11 August 1932, Spanish, French
Screenwriter, Film director, Actor, Playwright,
Stanley Kunitz29 July 1905, American
Educator, Poet
Charlotte Forten Grimké17 August 1837, American
Poet
Dmitry Merezhkovsky02 August 1865, Russian
Novelist
Christopher Okigbo16 August 1932, Nigerian
Poet
Oliver St. John Gogarty17 August 1878, Irish
Poet
Béla Balázs04 August 1884, Hungarian
Film critic
Marko Marulic18 August 1450, Croatian
Poet
Florine Stettheimer19 August 1871, American
Painter
Bei Dao02 August 1949, Chinese, American
Writer
Henry Cuyler Bunner03 August 1855, American
Novelist
Amjad Islam Amjad04 August 1944, Pakistani
Poet
Evan S. Connell17 August 1924, American
Author
Jules Laforgue16 August 1860, French, Uruguayan
Poet
Pierre-Jean de Béranger19 August 1780, French
Poet
Saul Tchernichowsky20 August 1875, Palestinian, Ukrainian, Russian
Poet
Ouyang Xiu01 August 1007, Chinese
Essayist
Cees Nooteboom31 July 1933, Dutch
Novelist
Tarjei Vesaas20 August 1897, Norwegian
Poet
Jan Brzechwa15 August 1898, Polish
poet
Ivar Aasen05 August 1813, Norwegian
Philologist, Lexicographer, Playwright, Poet