1967 in Poetry - Deaths

Deaths

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• March 16 – Thomas MacGreevy 72 (born 1893), Irish poet, director of the National Gallery of Ireland and member of the first Irish Arts Council
• March 30 – Jean Toomer, 72, American poet, novelist and important figure of the Harlem Renaissance
• May 10 – Margaret Larkin, 67
• May 12 – John Masefield, 88 (died 1978), English poet writer, and Poet Laureate
• May 22 – Langston Hughes, 65 (born 1902), African American poet, of heart failure
• June 7 – Dorothy Parker, 73, American writer and poet known for her caustic wit, of a heart attack
• June 23 – Sakae Tsuboi 壺井栄 (born 1899), novelist and poet
• July 13 – Yoshino Hideo 吉野秀雄 (born 1902), Japanese, Showa period tanka poet
• July 19 – Odel Shepard, 82
• July 22 – Carl Sandburg, 89, American historian and poet, of a heart attack
• July 25 – Pierre Albert Birot, 91, French poet and writer
• September (exact date not known) — Augusto Casimiro, 78, Portuguese poet and founder of the Seara Nova literary review
• September 1 – Siegfried Sassoon, 80, English poet, author
• September 5 – David C. DeJong, at 62
• October 8 – Vernon Watkins, 61, Welsh poet and painter
• November 17 – Bo Bergman, 98, Swedish poet
• November 30 – Patrick Kavanagh, 62 (born 1904), Irish poet and novelist, of pneumonia

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