After all, Pike was an established poet and his work had been published in the respectable periodicals of that center of American culture, Boston.

* 1950 – Jim Carroll, American poet and actor ( d. 2009 )

* 1921 – Hayden Carruth, American poet and critic ( d. 2008 )

* 1884 – Sara Teasdale, American poet ( d. 1933 )

On the debate of what it means to be disabled, American poet Joan Aleshire stated in the book Voices From the Edge:

* 1863 – Ernest Thayer, American poet ( d. 1940 )

* 1954 – Mary Jo Salter, American poet

* 1920 – Charles Bukowski, American poet ( d. 1994 )

* 1859 – Katharine Lee Bates, American poet ( d. 1929 )

* 1937 – Walter Dean Myers, American novelist and poet

* 1902 – Ogden Nash, American poet ( d. 1971 )

* 1929 – X. J. Kennedy, American poet and author

* 1935 – Charles Wright, American poet

* 1946 – Charles Ghigna, American poet and author

* 1945 – Anne Waldman, American poet

* 1952 – Rita Dove, American poet

* 1915 – Joy Davidman, American poet and writer, wife of C. S. Lewis ( d. 1960 )

Ani DiFranco (; born Angela Maria DiFranco on September 23, 1970 ) is an American singer, guitarist, poet, and songwriter.

In 1941, Eli Siegel, American philosopher and poet, founded Aesthetic Realism, the philosophy that reality itself is aesthetic, and that " The world, art, and self explain each other: each is the aesthetic oneness of opposites.

* 1897 – Louise Bogan, American poet ( d. 1970 )

* 1982 – Archibald MacLeish, American poet, writer, and Librarian of Congress ( b. 1892 )

* 1953 – Mark Doty, American poet and writer

* 1913 – Robert Hayden, American poet ( d. 1980 )

* 1958 – Allison Hedge Coke, American poet and writer

* 1966 – Michael Franti, American singer, musician, composer, and poet ( The Beatnigs and The Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy )

I pay my personal tribute to Sam Rayburn, stalwart Texan and great American, not only because today he establishes a record of having served as Speaker of the House of Representatives more than twice as long as Henry Clay, but because of the contributions he has made to the welfare of the people of the Nation during his almost half century of service as a Member of Congress.

In their book, American Skyline, Christopher Tunnard and Henry Hope Reed argue that Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal was what made the modern suburb a possibility -- a fine ironical argument, when you consider how suburbanites tend to vote.

Thus at the same time that William Henry Harrison was preparing to pacify the aborigines of Indiana Territory and winning fame at the battle of Tippecanoe, Anglo-Saxon settlement made a great leap into the center of the North American continent to the west of the American agricultural frontier.

" He closely followed Henry Clay in supporting the American Colonization Society program of making the abolition of slavery practical by helping the freed slaves to settle in Liberia in Africa.

* Henry Austin ( architect ) ( 1804 – 1891 ), American architect

* Henry Austin ( baseball ) ( 1844 – 1904 ), American baseball player

* 1777 – Henry Clay, American statesman ( d. 1852 )

* 1865 – James Henry Breasted, American archaeologist and historian ( d. 1935 )

* 1904 – Henry Iba, American basketball player and coach ( d. 1993 )

When two of the founders of that society, Helena Blavatsky and Henry Steel Olcott, moved to India at the end of that year, he was constituted as the President of the American body.

The most important Canadian theorist was an American immigrant, Henry Wise Wood, president of the United Farmers of Alberta ( UFA ) during that movement's time as the governing party of the province ( 1921 – 1935 ).

* 1815 – Richard Henry Dana, Jr., American lawyer, politician, and author ( d. 1882 )

* 1912 – Henry Jones, American actor ( d. 1999 )

Both the American and the Annales historians picked up important family reconstitution techniques from French demographer Louis Henry.

* 1924 – Henry Mancini, American composer ( d. 1994 )

* 1893 – Henry Trendley Dean, American dentist ( d. 1962 )

* 1936 – Henry Lee Lucas, American serial killer ( d. 2001 )

* 1923 – Gloria Henry, American actress

* 1811 – Henry Bergh, American activist and writer, founder of ASPCA ( d. 1888 )

* 1924 – Henry Hyde, American politician ( d. 2007 )

Henry Sweet incorrectly predicted in 1877 that within a century American English, Australian English and British English would be mutually unintelligible.

The figurative style of his large bronzes is perceived as an important precursor to the greater simplifications of Henry Moore and Alberto Giacometti, and his serene classicism set a standard for European ( and American ) figure sculpture until the end of World War II.

* African American Lives, edited by Henry L. Gates, Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Oxford University Press, 2004 — more than 600 biographies.

* 1883 – Henry Jameson, American soccer player ( d. 1938 )