Births
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- January 24 – Keith Douglas (died 1944), English poet
- February 21 – Ishigaki Rin 石垣りん (died 2004), Japanese poet; she was an employee of the Industrial Bank of Japan, sometimes called "the bank teller poet"
- February 29 – Howard Nemerov American (died 1991), United States Poet Laureate from 1963 to 1964, and from 1988 to 1990
- March 11 – Dennis Joseph Enright (died 2002) English academic, poet, novelist and critic
- April 27 – Edwin Morgan Scotts poet and translator
- June 15 – Amy Clampitt (died 1994), American poet and author
- June 18 – Rosemary Dobson, Australian poet
- August 16 – Charles Bukowski (died 1994), American poet, novelist, and short-story writer
- August 18 – Harbhajan Singh (died 2002), Indian, Punjabi poet in the Sahajvadi tradition, also a critic, cultural commentator, and translator
- September 6 – Barbara Guest née Barbara Ann Pinson (died 2006), American poet and critic
- November 3 – Oodgeroo Noonuccal (died 1993), Australian poet, actress, writer, teacher, artist and campaigner for Aboriginal causes
- November 23 – Paul Celan (died 1970), German-language poet born to a German-speaking Jewish family in a place then part of Romania, now part of Ukraine
- date not known – Alexander Scott (Scotland)
- V. A. Anandakkuttan (died 1969), Indian, Malayalam-language poet and author of humorous essays and farces
- Balachandra Rajan (died 2009), Indian critic, novelist and writer of in Indian poetry in English
- Bernardino Evaristo Mendes, also known as B. E. Mendes, Indian, Konkani-language poet known for philosophical and theosophical writing
- Birendra Chattopadhyay (died 1985), Bengali-language poet and Marxist
- Jayant Pathak, Indian, Gujarati-language poet and critic
- K. B. Nikumb, Indian, Marathi-language poet
- Kaifi Azmi (died 2002), Indian, Hindi- and Urdu-language poet lyricist and songwriter
- Manmohan Misra, Indian poet and essayist in Orissa
- Natvarlal Kuberdas Pandya (pen name, "Usanas"), Indian, Gujarati-language poet and critic
- Okiyuma Gwaynn, Indian poet who wrote Indian poetry in English and then in Nepali; born in Hong Kong to a Japanese father and Tibetan mother, he settled in Darjeeling in 1946
- Ram Lal Papiha, Indian, Dogri-language poet
- Rentala Gopalakrishna, Indian, Telugu-language poet and playwright
- Santokh Singh Dheer, Indian, Punjabi poet and fiction writer in the largely romantic and progressive-in-outlook Amrita-Mohan Singh tradition of Punjabi
- Madhunapantula Satyanarayanashastri, Indian, Telugu-language poet (surname: Satyanarayanashastri)
- Tulasibahadur Chetri, nicknamed "Apatan", Indian, Nepali-language poet and playwright
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