1966 in Poetry - Deaths

Deaths

Birth years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:

• January 22 – Jun Kawada 川田 順 (born 1882), Japanese, Showa period tanka poet and entrepreneur
• January 23 – Berton Braley, 83
• March 5 — Anna Akhmatova, 76, Russian poet
• March 17 – Einar Skjæraasen, Norway
• May 14 – Georgia Douglas Johnson, 86, of a stroke
• June 1 – Inge Müller (born 1925), East German
• June 7 – Jean Arp, 78, French sculptor, painter and poet, leader in Dadaism
• June 10 – Henry Treese, 55
• June 27 – Arthur David Waley, 76, noted translator of Chinese poetry and an English Orientalist and Sinologist
• July 11 – Delmore Schwartz, 52, American, of a heart attack
• July 25 – Frank O'Hara, 40, American poet and key member of the New York School of poetry.
• August 14:
  • Raymond Duncan, 91
  • Alfred Kreymborg, 82, American poet, novelist, playwright, literary editor and anthologist
• August 26 – W.W.E. Ross (born 1894), Canadian poet.
• August 29 – Melvin Tolson, 68, American Modernist poet, educator, columnist, and politician
• September 25 – Mina Loy, 73, British-born American artist, poet, Futurist and actor
• September 28 – André Breton, 70, French poet, essayist and theorist; the leading exponent of Surrealism in literature

• Also:
  • John Cournos (born 1881), Russian-American Imagist poet, but better known for his novels, short stories, essays, criticism and translations of Russian literature; wrote under the pen name "John Courtney"
  • Tristan Klingsor, pseudonym of Léon Leclère (born August 8, 1874 – died sometime in August), French poet, painter and musician; part of the Fantaisiste group of French poets
  • Jun Tanaka 田中純 (born 1890), Japanese, Showa period poet
  • Arnold Wall (born 1869), New Zealand