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.
Ovid20 March 0043, Italian, Romanian
Poet
Wilfred Owen18 March 1893, British
Poet
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow27 February 1807, American
Poet & Educator
Elizabeth Barrett Browning06 March 1806, British
Poet
John Updike18 March 1932, American
Edna St. Vincent Millay22 February 1892, American
Poetess and Playwright
Edward Gorey22 February 1925, American
Kusumagraj27 February 1912, Indian
Poet
Saul Williams29 February 1972, American
Singer, Musician, Poet
Mahmoud Darwish13 March 1941, Palestinian
Poet
Anne Bradstreet20 March 1612, British
Poet
Stéphane Mallarmé18 March 1842, French
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,
John Henry Newman21 February 1801, British
Theologian
Vita Sackville-West09 March 1892, British
Writer
Eduard Limonov22 February 1943, French, Russian
Writer, Dissident, Politician, Poet, Human rights
Julia Cameron04 March 1948, American
Screenwriter, Film director, Novelist, Poet
Michel Houellebecq26 February 1956, French
Poet, Film director, Songwriter, Essayist,
Gabriele D'Annunzio12 March 1863, Italian
Poet
Nik Kershaw01 March 1958, British
Singer-songwriter, Composer, Singer, Poet
Genesis P-Orridge22 February 1950, British
Singer-songwriter
Sahir Ludhianvi08 March 1921, Indian
Poet, Lyricist, Songwriter
Akkitham Achuthan Namboothiri18 March 1926, Indian
Author
Irom Chanu Sharmila14 March 1972, Indian
Poet, Journalist
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Robert Lowell01 March 1917, American
Poet, Writer
Stephen Spender28 February 1909, British
Poet
Bertrand Cantat05 March 1964, French
Singer, Guitarist, Lyricist, Singer-songwriter,
Boris Vian10 March 1920, French
Polymath, Singer, Poet, Trumpeter, Lyricist,
Oskar Kokoschka01 March 1886, Austrian, British
Painter, Playwright, Writer, Poet, University
N. Scott Momaday27 February 1934, American
Author
Sonja Yelich26 February 1965, New Zealander
Poet
James Russell Lowell22 February 1819, American
Poet, Diplomat, Essayist, Writer, Literary critic,
Karl Kruszelnicki20 March 1948, Australian
Author
Martial01 March 0040, Spanish
Emmanuelle Riva24 February 1927, French
Actor, Photographer, Poet
Jake Thackray27 February 1938, British
Singer-songwriter, Poet
Friedrich Hölderlin20 March 1770, German
poet
Georges Perec07 March 1936, French
Writer, Film director, Screenwriter, Poet,
Hugo Ball22 February 1886, German
Writer, Poet, Theatre director
Howard Pyle05 March 1853, American
American illustrator
Abba Kovner14 March 1918, Israeli
Writer, Poet
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
Ishmael Reed22 February 1938, American
Poet
Tobias Smollett19 March 1721, British, Scottish
Author
Lorenzo Da Ponte10 March 1749, Italian, American
Opera librettist, Poet
Raymond Queneau21 February 1903, French
Poet, Playwright, Novelist, Writer, Screenwriter,
James Merrill03 March 1926, American
Poet, Writer
César Vallejo16 March 1892, Peruvian
Poet, Writer, Playwright, Translator, Journalist
Richard Wilbur01 March 1921, American
Poet, Translator, Writer, University teacher
David Tibet05 March 1960, British
Musician, Painter, Poet
Sully Prudhomme16 March 1839, French
Poet, Writer, Essayist, Diarist
David Malouf20 March 1934, Australian
Writer, Novelist, Poet, Librettist, Playwright
Olivia Manning02 March 1908, British
Novelist
Ha Jin21 February 1956, Chinese, American
Writer
Robert Hass01 March 1941, American
Poet
Ina Coolbrith10 March 1841, American
Poet
Robert Calvert09 March 1945, South African
Poet, Singer, Writer
Angelina Weld Grimké27 February 1880, American
Journalist
Bai Juyi03 March 0772, Chinese
Poet
Irving Layton12 March 1912, Canadian, Romanian
Poet
John Langalibalele Dube22 February 1871, South African
Essayist
Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff10 March 1788, Polish, Prussian
Novelist, poet, essayist
Rosalía de Castro24 February 1837, Spanish
Poet, Writer
Ivan Albright20 February 1897, American
Painter
Li Qingzhao13 March 1084, Chinese
Poet
Evert Taube12 March 1890, Swedish
Singer, Composer, Musician, Writer, Poet,
Howard Nemerov29 February 1920, American
Poet
Tian Han12 March 1898, Chinese
Author
Alain Mabanckou24 February 1966, Congolese, French
Novelist
José Zorrilla21 February 1817, Spanish
Poet
Kofi Awoonor13 March 1935, Ghanaian
Poet
Arrigo Boito24 February 1842, Italian
poet
Keri Hulme09 March 1947, New Zealander
Novelist
Giorgio Bassani04 March 1916, Italian
Novelist
Castro Alves14 March 1847, Brazilian
Poet
Gabriele Rossetti28 February 1783, Italian, British
Poet
Lionel Johnson15 March 1867, British
Poet
Kenneth Koch27 February 1925, American
Poet
James T. Farrell27 February 1904, American
Author
Leandro Fernández de Moratín10 March 1760, Spanish
Dramatist
John Wain14 March 1925, British
Poet
Tonino Guerra16 March 1920, Italian
Poet
Rudolf Erich Raspe29 February 1736, German
Librarian
Eric Linklater08 March 1899, Scottish
Poet
Edmund Waller03 March 1606, British
Poet