Victor Hugo26 February 1802, French
Author & Poet
Jack Kerouac12 March 1922, American
Novelist, Poet
W. H. Auden21 February 1907, British
Poet
Christopher Marlowe26 February 1564, British
Playwright, Poet
Ovid20 March 0043, Italian, Romanian
Poet
Saul Williams29 February 1972, American
Singer, Musician, Poet
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow27 February 1807, American
Poet & Educator
Wilfred Owen18 March 1893, British
Poet
Henrik Ibsen20 March 1828, Norwegian
Playwright, Poet.
John Updike18 March 1932, American
Elizabeth Barrett Browning06 March 1806, British
Poet
Edward Gorey22 February 1925, American
Edna St. Vincent Millay22 February 1892, American
Poetess and Playwright
Mahmoud Darwish13 March 1941, Palestinian
Poet
Anne Bradstreet20 March 1612, British
Poet
Robert Lowell01 March 1917, American
Poet
Stéphane Mallarmé18 March 1842, French
Poet
Kusumagraj27 February 1912, Indian
Poet
L. Ron Hubbard13 March 1911, American
Officer, Novelist, Musician, Writer, Screenwriter,
Keren Peles11 March 1979, Israeli
Singer
Pier Paolo Pasolini05 March 1922, Italian
Film director
Mod Sun10 March 1987, American
Rapper
Akkitham Achuthan Namboothiri18 March 1926, Indian
Author
Michel Houellebecq26 February 1956, French
Poet, Film director, Songwriter, Essayist,
Vita Sackville-West09 March 1892, British
Writer
Genesis P-Orridge22 February 1950, British
Singer-songwriter
Nik Kershaw01 March 1958, British
Singer-songwriter, Composer, Singer, Poet
Gabriele D'Annunzio12 March 1863, Italian
Poet
Julia Cameron04 March 1948, American
Screenwriter, Film director, Novelist, Poet
Sahir Ludhianvi08 March 1921, Indian
Poet, Lyricist, Songwriter
Sonja Yelich26 February 1965, New Zealander
Poet
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Bertrand Cantat05 March 1964, French
Singer, Guitarist, Lyricist, Singer-songwriter,
Irom Chanu Sharmila14 March 1972, Indian
Poet, Journalist
Friedrich Hölderlin20 March 1770, German
poet
Stephen Spender28 February 1909, British
Poet
Eduard Limonov22 February 1943, French, Russian
Writer, Dissident, Politician, Poet, Human rights
James Russell Lowell22 February 1819, American
Poet, Diplomat, Essayist, Writer, Literary critic,
Ryszard Kapuściński04 March 1932, Polish
Journalist
Oskar Kokoschka01 March 1886, Austrian, British
Painter, Playwright, Writer, Poet, University
Karl Kruszelnicki20 March 1948, Australian
Author
Georges Perec07 March 1936, French
Writer, Film director, Screenwriter, Poet,
Abba Kovner14 March 1918, Israeli
Writer, Poet
Boris Vian10 March 1920, French
Polymath, Singer, Poet, Trumpeter, Lyricist,
N. Scott Momaday27 February 1934, American
Author
Ishmael Reed22 February 1938, American
Poet
Howard Pyle05 March 1853, American
American illustrator
Jake Thackray27 February 1938, British
Singer-songwriter, Poet
Sergey Mikhalkov13 March 1913, Russian
Author
Edward Thomas03 March 1878, British
Poet
Charles of Valois12 March 1270, French
Author
Alessandro Manzoni07 March 1785, Italian
Italian poet
Emmanuelle Riva24 February 1927, French
Actor, Photographer, Poet
Hugo Ball22 February 1886, German
Writer, Poet, Theatre director
Cecil Percival Taylor15 March 1930, American
Ben Okri15 March 1959, Nigerian
Writer, Journalist, Novelist, Author, Poet
Lorenzo Da Ponte10 March 1749, Italian, American
Opera librettist, Poet
Torquato Tasso11 March 1544, Italian
Poet, Writer, Playwright, Poet lawyer
César Vallejo16 March 1892, Peruvian
Poet, Writer, Playwright, Translator, Journalist
Tobias Smollett19 March 1721, British, Scottish
Author
David Tibet05 March 1960, British
Musician, Painter, Poet
Olivia Manning02 March 1908, British
Novelist
Raymond Queneau21 February 1903, French
Poet, Playwright, Novelist, Writer, Screenwriter,
Sully Prudhomme16 March 1839, French
Poet, Writer, Essayist, Diarist
Friedrich Schlegel10 March 1772, German
Poet
Rama II24 February 1767, Thai
King
Robert Calvert09 March 1945, South African
Poet, Singer, Writer
Linda Brown14 March 1939, American
Author
Ina Coolbrith10 March 1841, American
Poet
David Malouf20 March 1934, Australian
Writer, Novelist, Poet, Librettist, Playwright
George Seferis13 March 1900, Greek
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Bai Juyi03 March 0772, Chinese
Poet
John Langalibalele Dube22 February 1871, South African
Essayist
James Merrill03 March 1926, American
Poet, Writer
Ha Jin21 February 1956, Chinese, American
Writer
Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff10 March 1788, German, Prussian
Poet
Li Qingzhao13 March 1084, Chinese
Poet
Richard Wilbur01 March 1921, American
Poet
Tang Yin06 March 1470, Chinese
Painter
Irving Layton12 March 1912, Canadian, Romanian
Poet
Angelina Weld Grimké27 February 1880, American
Journalist
Lionel Johnson15 March 1867, British
Poet
Ivan Albright20 February 1897, American
Painter
Evert Taube12 March 1890, Swedish
Singer, Composer, Musician, Writer, Poet,
Robert Hass01 March 1941, American
Poet
Alain Mabanckou24 February 1966, Congolese, French
Novelist
Keri Hulme09 March 1947, New Zealander
Novelist
Rosalía de Castro24 February 1837, Spanish
Poet, Writer
Gabriele Rossetti28 February 1783, Italian, British
Poet
Eric Linklater08 March 1899, Scottish
Poet
Giorgio Bassani04 March 1916, Italian
Novelist
Stanislaw Jerzy Lec06 March 1909, Ukrainian
Tonino Guerra16 March 1920, Italian
Poet
Arrigo Boito24 February 1842, Italian
poet
Ralph McInerny24 February 1929, American
Author