Births
Death years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:
- April 7 – William Wordsworth (died 1850), English poet
- Bankidas Asiya (died 1833), Rajasthani poet and scholar
- Thomas John Dibdin (died 1841), English dramatist and song-writer
- Thomas Green Fessenden, (died 1837), American
- Liang Desheng (died 1847), Chinese poet and writer during the Qing Dynasty
- James Montgomery (died 1854), English editor and poet
- Sir Walter Scott (died 1832), Scottish historical novelist and poet
- Sydney Smith (died 1845), English writer and Anglican clergyman
- Dorothy Wordsworth (died 1855), English author, poet and diarist
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Famous quotes containing the word births:
“As the births of living creatures, at first, are ill-shapen: so are all Innovations, which are the births of time.”
—Francis Bacon (1561–1626)