1970 in Poetry - Deaths

Deaths

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• January 10 – Charles Olson, 59, of cancer
• January 15 – Leah Goldberg (born 1911), Israeli poet who wrote in Hebrew
• January 24 – Caresse Crosby, also known as "Mary Phelps Jacob" (born 1891), American poet and New York socialite, who, in 1927, founded Black Sun Press with her husband Harry Crosby (also a poet) and who in 1910 invented the first modern brassiere to receive a patent and gain wide acceptance
• February 4 – Louise Bogan, 72
• February 19 – Edsel Ford, 41
• March 28 – Nathan Alterman (born 1910), Israeli poet, journalist and translator
• March 29 – Vera Brittain, English novelist and poet
• about April 20 – Paul Celan, 49, Romanian-born poet who wrote in German and became a French citizen, from suicide
• May 12 – Nelly Sachs (born 1891), German-Swedish poet and dramatist who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1966
• June 2 – Giuseppe Ungaretti, 82, Italian
• June 18 – Nicolaas Petrus van Wyk Louw, 64, South African Afrikaans poet and critic
• September 28 – John Dos Passos (born 1896), American novelist, poet and artist
• November 25 – Yukio Mishima 三島 由紀夫, pen name of Kimitake Hiraoka 平岡 公威 (born 1925), Japanese author, poet and playwright
• December 31 – Lorine Niedecker (born 1903), American

• Also:
  • Arthur Nortje (born 1942), South African poet
  • Humayun Kabir (Bengali: হুমায়ুন কবির) (born 1906) Bengali poet, educationist, politician, writer, philosopher