Victor Hugo26 February 1802, French
Author & Poet
Jack Kerouac12 March 1922, American
Novelist, Poet
Christopher Marlowe26 February 1564, British
Playwright, Poet
W. H. Auden21 February 1907, British
Poet
Henrik Ibsen20 March 1828, Norwegian
Playwright, Poet.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow27 February 1807, American
Poet & Educator
Ovid20 March 0043, Italian, Romanian
Poet
Wilfred Owen18 March 1893, British
Poet
John Updike18 March 1932, American
Elizabeth Barrett Browning06 March 1806, British
Poet
Edward Gorey22 February 1925, American
Saul Williams29 February 1972, American
Singer, Musician, Poet
Edna St. Vincent Millay22 February 1892, American
Poetess and Playwright
Mahmoud Darwish13 March 1941, Palestinian
Poet
Anne Bradstreet20 March 1612, British
Poet
Stéphane Mallarmé18 March 1842, French
Poet
Kusumagraj27 February 1912, Indian
Poet
L. Ron Hubbard13 March 1911, American
Officer, Novelist, Musician, Writer, Screenwriter,
Tamzin Merchant04 March 1987, British
Actress
John Henry Newman21 February 1801, British
Theologian
John Doe25 February 1953, American
Singer
Pier Paolo Pasolini05 March 1922, Italian
Film director, Writer, Actor, Poet, Screenwriter,
Vita Sackville-West09 March 1892, British
Writer
Julia Cameron04 March 1948, American
Screenwriter, Film director, Novelist, Poet
Michel Houellebecq26 February 1956, French
Poet, Film director, Songwriter, Essayist,
Nik Kershaw01 March 1958, British
Singer-songwriter, Composer, Singer, Poet
N. Scott Momaday27 February 1934, American
Author
Genesis P-Orridge22 February 1950, British
Singer
Sahir Ludhianvi08 March 1921, Indian
Poet, Lyricist, Songwriter
Robert Lowell01 March 1917, American
Poet, Writer
James Russell Lowell22 February 1819, American
Poet, Diplomat, Essayist, Writer, Literary critic,
Irom Chanu Sharmila14 March 1972, Indian
Poet, Journalist
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Bertrand Cantat05 March 1964, French
Singer, Guitarist, Lyricist, Singer-songwriter,
Stephen Spender28 February 1909, British
Poet, Writer, Essayist, University teacher,
Sonja Yelich26 February 1965, New Zealander
Poet
Oskar Kokoschka01 March 1886, Austrian, British
Painter, Playwright, Writer, Poet, University
Karl Kruszelnicki20 March 1948, Australian
Author
Martial01 March 0040, Spanish
Hugo Ball22 February 1886, German
Writer, Poet, Theatre director
Boris Vian10 March 1920, French
Polymath, Singer, Poet, Trumpeter, Lyricist,
Friedrich Hölderlin20 March 1770, German
poet
Eduard Limonov22 February 1943, French, Russian
Writer, Dissident, Politician, Poet, Human rights
Emmanuelle Riva24 February 1927, French
Actor, Photographer, Poet
Georges Perec07 March 1936, French
Writer, Film director, Screenwriter, Poet,
Howard Pyle05 March 1853, American
American illustrator
Alessandro Manzoni07 March 1785, Italian
Italian poet
Torquato Tasso11 March 1544, Italian
Poet, Writer, Playwright, Poet lawyer
Ben Okri15 March 1959, Nigerian
Writer, Journalist, Novelist, Author, Poet
Tobias Smollett19 March 1721, British, Scottish
Author
Abba Kovner14 March 1918, Israeli
Writer, Poet
Richard Wilbur01 March 1921, American
Poet, Translator, Writer, University teacher
Lorenzo Da Ponte10 March 1749, Italian, American
Opera librettist, Poet
James Merrill03 March 1926, American
Poet, Writer
Ishmael Reed22 February 1938, American
Poet
Raymond Queneau21 February 1903, French
Poet, Playwright, Novelist, Writer, Screenwriter,
Sully Prudhomme16 March 1839, French
Poet, Writer, Essayist, Diarist
César Vallejo16 March 1892, Peruvian
Poet, Writer, Playwright, Translator, Journalist
David Malouf20 March 1934, Australian
Writer, Novelist, Poet, Librettist, Playwright
David Tibet05 March 1960, British
Musician, Painter, Poet
Jake Thackray27 February 1938, British
Singer-songwriter, Poet
Olivia Manning02 March 1908, British
Novelist
Irving Layton12 March 1912, Canadian, Romanian
Poet
Ha Jin21 February 1956, Chinese, American
Writer
Robert Hass01 March 1941, American
Poet
Bai Juyi03 March 0772, Chinese
Poet
Ivan Albright20 February 1897, American
Painter
Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff10 March 1788, Polish, Prussian
Novelist, poet, essayist
Robert Calvert09 March 1945, South African
Poet, Singer, Writer
Ina Coolbrith10 March 1841, American
Poet
Li Qingzhao13 March 1084, Chinese
Poet
John Langalibalele Dube22 February 1871, South African
Essayist
Rosalía de Castro24 February 1837, Spanish
Poet, Writer
Evert Taube12 March 1890, Swedish
Singer, Composer, Musician, Writer, Poet,
Howard Nemerov29 February 1920, American
Poet
Arrigo Boito24 February 1842, Italian
poet
Giorgio Bassani04 March 1916, Italian
Novelist
Lionel Johnson15 March 1867, British
Poet
Angelina Weld Grimké27 February 1880, American
Journalist
Charles of Valois12 March 1270, French
Author
Edmund Waller03 March 1606, British
Poet
William Barnes22 February 1801, British
Writer
Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz20 February 1894, Polish
Writer
Akkitham Achuthan Namboothiri18 March 1926, Indian
Author
José de Anchieta19 March 1534, Spanish
Missionary
Linda Brown14 March 1939, American
Author
Berthold Auerbach28 February 1812, German
Poet, Writer, Poet lawyer
George Seferis13 March 1900, Greek
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Anne Grant21 February 1755, British
Poet, Historian
John Henry Cardinal Newman21 February 1801, British
Poet, Theologian
Stanislaw Jerzy Lec06 March 1909, Ukrainian
Cecil Percival Taylor15 March 1930, American
Ryszard Kapuściński04 March 1932, Polish
Journalist