W. H. Auden21 February 1907, British
Poet
Victor Hugo26 February 1802, French
Author & Poet
Jack Kerouac12 March 1922, American
Novelist, Poet
Christopher Marlowe26 February 1564, British
Playwright, Poet
Ovid20 March 0043, Italian, Romanian
Poet
Henrik Ibsen20 March 1828, Norwegian
Playwright, Poet.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow27 February 1807, American
Poet & Educator
John Updike18 March 1932, American
Wilfred Owen18 March 1893, British
Poet
Elizabeth Barrett Browning06 March 1806, British
Poet
Saul Williams29 February 1972, American
Singer, Musician, Poet
Edward Gorey22 February 1925, American
Edna St. Vincent Millay22 February 1892, American
Poetess and Playwright
Robert Lowell01 March 1917, American
Poet
Mahmoud Darwish13 March 1941, Palestinian
Poet
Stéphane Mallarmé18 March 1842, French
Poet
Anne Bradstreet20 March 1612, British
Poet
Kusumagraj27 February 1912, Indian
Poet
L. Ron Hubbard13 March 1911, American
Officer, Novelist, Musician, Writer, Screenwriter,
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
Genesis P-Orridge22 February 1950, British
Singer-songwriter
Michel Houellebecq26 February 1956, French
Poet, Film director, Songwriter, Essayist,
Nik Kershaw01 March 1958, British
Singer-songwriter, Composer, Singer, Poet
John Henry Newman21 February 1801, British
Theologian
Sahir Ludhianvi08 March 1921, Indian
Poet, Lyricist, Songwriter
Julia Cameron04 March 1948, American
Screenwriter, Film director, Novelist, Poet
Gabriele D'Annunzio12 March 1863, Italian
Poet
Karl Kruszelnicki20 March 1948, Australian
Author
Bertrand Cantat05 March 1964, French
Singer, Guitarist, Lyricist, Singer-songwriter,
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Jake Thackray27 February 1938, British
Singer-songwriter, Poet
Sonja Yelich26 February 1965, New Zealander
Poet
Eduard Limonov22 February 1943, French, Russian
Writer, Dissident, Politician, Poet, Human rights
Friedrich Hölderlin20 March 1770, German
poet
Irom Chanu Sharmila14 March 1972, Indian
Poet, Journalist
Martial01 March 0040, Spanish
Stephen Spender28 February 1909, British
Poet
Ishmael Reed22 February 1938, American
Poet
Oskar Kokoschka01 March 1886, Austrian, British
Painter, Playwright, Writer, Poet, University
Ryszard Kapuściński04 March 1932, Polish
Journalist
Alessandro Manzoni07 March 1785, Italian
Italian poet
Boris Vian10 March 1920, French
Polymath, Singer, Poet, Trumpeter, Lyricist,
Howard Pyle05 March 1853, American
American illustrator
Georges Perec07 March 1936, French
Writer, Film director, Screenwriter, Poet,
James Russell Lowell22 February 1819, American
Poet, Diplomat, Essayist, Writer, Literary critic,
Ben Okri15 March 1959, Nigerian
Writer, Journalist, Novelist, Author, Poet
Emmanuelle Riva24 February 1927, French
Actor, Photographer, Poet
Akkitham Achuthan Namboothiri18 March 1926, Indian
Author
Abba Kovner14 March 1918, Israeli
Writer, Poet
Friedrich Schlegel10 March 1772, German
Poet
N. Scott Momaday27 February 1934, American
Author
Kenneth Koch27 February 1925, American
Poet
Torquato Tasso11 March 1544, Italian
Poet, Writer, Playwright, Poet lawyer
Tobias Smollett19 March 1721, British, Scottish
Author
Lorenzo Da Ponte10 March 1749, Italian, American
Opera librettist, Poet
David Tibet05 March 1960, British
Musician, Painter, Poet
David Malouf20 March 1934, Australian
Writer, Novelist, Poet, Librettist, Playwright
Sergey Mikhalkov13 March 1913, Russian
Author
Raymond Queneau21 February 1903, French
Poet, Playwright, Novelist, Writer, Screenwriter,
John Langalibalele Dube22 February 1871, South African
Essayist
Hugo Ball22 February 1886, German
Writer, Poet, Theatre director
Ha Jin21 February 1956, Chinese, American
Writer
Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff10 March 1788, Polish, Prussian
Novelist, poet, essayist
Robert Calvert09 March 1945, South African
Poet, Singer, Writer
James Merrill03 March 1926, American
Poet, Writer
César Vallejo16 March 1892, Peruvian
Poet, Writer, Playwright, Translator, Journalist
Olivia Manning02 March 1908, British
Novelist
Sully Prudhomme16 March 1839, French
Poet, Writer, Essayist, Diarist
Richard Wilbur01 March 1921, American
Poet, Translator, Writer, University teacher
Bai Juyi03 March 0772, Chinese
Poet
Li Qingzhao13 March 1084, Chinese
Poet
Ina Coolbrith10 March 1841, American
Poet
Arrigo Boito24 February 1842, Italian
poet
Irving Layton12 March 1912, Canadian, Romanian
Poet
Rosalía de Castro24 February 1837, Spanish
Poet, Writer
Lionel Johnson15 March 1867, British
Poet
Angelina Weld Grimké27 February 1880, American
Journalist
Ivan Albright20 February 1897, American
Painter
Robert Hass01 March 1941, American
Poet
Zulfikar Ghose13 March 1935, Pakistani, American
Novelist
Giorgio Bassani04 March 1916, Italian
Novelist
Keri Hulme09 March 1947, New Zealander
Novelist
Evert Taube12 March 1890, Swedish
Singer, Composer, Musician, Writer, Poet,
Eric Linklater08 March 1899, Scottish
Poet
Tian Han12 March 1898, Chinese
Author
Tang Yin06 March 1470, Chinese
Painter
Ralph McInerny24 February 1929, American
Author
Howard Nemerov29 February 1920, American
Poet
Tonino Guerra16 March 1920, Italian
Poet
John Wain14 March 1925, British
Poet
Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz20 February 1894, Polish
Writer
Charles of Valois12 March 1270, French
Author
Umberto Saba09 March 1883, Italian
Poet