1916 in Poetry - Births

Births

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

• January 10 – William Buchan, 3rd Baron Tweedsmuir, also known as "William Tweedsmuir" (died 2008), an English peer and author of novels, short stories, memoirs and verse
• February 4 – Gavin Ewart (died 1995), English
• June 14 – John Ciardi (died 1986), American poet, translator, and etymologist
• June 25 – John Malcolm Brinnin (died 1998), American poet and literary critic
• July 6 – Harold Norse, (died 2009), American poet and memoirist. Wrote seminal memoir of the Beat poets in Paris.
• October 16 – David Gascoyne, English author and poet
• September 13 – John Malcolm Brinnin (died 1998), American poet and literary critic
• September 25 – Paul Roche (died 2007), English poet, translator and academic once associated with the Bloomsbury Group
• November 23 – P. K. Page (died 2010), Canadian poet
• December 14 – Harold Stewart (died 1995), Australian
• December 21 – Maurice Chappaz (died 2009), Swiss, French-language poet, travel writer, translator and author

• Also:
  • Ghulam Nabi Aziz (died 1965), Indian, Kashmiri-language poet, nephew of Abdul Ahad Azad
  • Jnanindra Barma (died 1990), Indian, Oriya-language poet
  • Hari Daryani, "Dilgir", Indian, Sindhi-language poet
  • Balumukund Dave, Indian, Gujarati-language poet
  • Ghulam Nabi Dilsoz (died 1941), Indian, Kashmiri-language poet
  • Helen Haenke (died 1978), Australian
  • Margaret Irvin, Australian
  • Sheikh Davud Kavi, Indian, Telugu-language poet, scholar and translator
  • Sankeevani Marathi, Indian, Marathi-language
  • Dina Nath Kaul Nadim (died 1987, Indian, Kashmiri-language poet
  • Felix Paul Noronha, Indian, Marathi-language poet in the Konkani dialect
  • Lal Chand Prarthi (died 1982), Indian, Dogri-language Pahadi poet and editor
  • Samar Sen, সমর সেন (died 1987) Bengali poet and journalist
  • Pinakin Thakore, Indian, Gujarati-language poet
  • Pritam Singh Safir, Indian, Punjabi-language poet
  • Raghunath Vishnu Pandit (died 1990), Indian, Konkani language poet who also wrote in Marathi modernist poet, novelist, short-story writer and essayist
  • Venibhai Purohit (died 1990), Indian, Gujarati-language
  • Val Vallis, Australian
  • Takis Varvitsiotis, Greek
  • N. V. Krishna Warrier, N. V. Krishna Warrier (died 1989), Indian, Malayalam-language poet, critic and scholar who introduced new types of long narrative poems and satires; editor of ' 'Mathrubhumi' ', a weekly; director of the Kerala Bhasa Institute