1975 in Poetry - Deaths

Deaths

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

• January 15 – Sydney Goodsir Smith, poet, dramatist and novelist
• February 10 – Nikos Kavadias, Greek
• February 14 – Sir Julian Sorell Huxley (born 1887), English evolutionary biologist, humanist and internationalist
• March 3 – Sir Thomas Herbert Parry-Williams, 87, Welsh poet, translator and academic
• April 23 – Rolf Dieter Brinkmann (born 1940) German poet
• May 10 – Roque Dalton, 39, (born 1935), leftist Salvadoran poet and journalist who wrote on death, love, and politics; executed
• July 10 – Sir Francis Meynell, 84
• September 4 – Shigeji Tsuboi 壺井繁治 (born 1897) Japanese
• September 20 – Saint-John Perse, 88, French diplomat and poet, winner of the Nobel Prize in literature in 1960
• October 27 – Vayalar Rama Varma (born 1928), Indian, Malayalam-language poet and film songwriter
• November 2 – Pier Paolo Pasolini, 53, Italian film director, author and poet
• November 23 – Francis Webb, 52, Australian poet
• Also:
  • Andreas Empeirikos (born 1901), Greek
  • Janko Glazer, (born 1893)
  • Vojko Gorjan, (born 1949)