Births
Death years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:
- January 14 – Joseph Warren Beach (died 1957), American poet, critic and literary scholar
- February 27 – Angelina Weld Grimke (died 1958), African American lesbian journalist and poet
- August 12 – Radclyffe Hall (died 1943), British poet and novelist
- August 26 – Guillaume Apollinaire, (died 1918), French poet, writer, and art critic
- September 16 – Alfred Noyes (died 1958), English poet, best known for his ballads The Highwayman (1906) and The Barrel Organ
- Also:
- Bahinabai Chaudhari बहिणाबाई चौधरी (died 1951), illiterate, Indian, Marathi-language poet whose son wrote down her poems for her
- Grant Hervey (died 1933), Australian
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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)