Born c. 370 on Peuce Island at the mouth of the Danube in present day Romania, Alaric belonged to the noble Balti dynasty of the Tervingian Goths.

Born in Romania, Pascal lives in the San Francisco, CA area of the US, and works in association with Christopher J.

Born on September 27, 1952 in Braşov, Romania, Prunariu graduated from the Physics and Mathematics high school in Braşov in 1971 and from the University POLITEHNICA of Bucharest in 1976, obtaining a degree in Aerospace Engineering.

Born as Andrei Perlmutter on December 20, 1946 in Sibiu, Romania, he published his first poems in the Romanian language under the pen name Andrei Steiu.

Born in Romania, Calimach moved to the United States of America with his parents in 1966, as a result of their disillusion with the intellectual, ethical and economic results of communism, which they had initially supported out of idealism.

In 1980, Janco revisited his childhood years, writing: " Born as I was in beautiful Romania, into a family of well-to-do people, I had the fortune of being educated in a climate of freedom and spiritual enlightenment.

Born on June 19, 1915, Julius Schwartz, grew up on 817 Caldwell Avenue in The Bronx, to his Romanian immigrant parents, who emigrated from a small town outside Bucharest, Romania.

Born in the Byzantine aristocratic Rangabe-Lambrino family, the daughter of Colonel later General Constantin Lambrino and Euphrosine Alcaz, Joanna Lambrino met the Hohenzollern prince Carol, son of King Ferdinand of Romania and Queen Marie of Romania, in Iaşi, Romania, in 1918, during World War I.

Born in Braşov, Romania, Nadin was educated under communist regime imposed after World War II.

Born January 21, 1898 in Parma, Italy, she came to Romania in 1927.

Born in Kiev, Ukraine ( then in the Russian Empire until 1918, lived in her youth in Cernăuţi ( Czernowitz ), Bucovina, then part of the Kingdom of Romania, and nowadays in Ukraine ), she was a graduate from the University of Vienna who could speak nine languages.

Born in Iaşi, Romania, in 1933, Sorel Etrog's formal art training began in 1945.

Born at his family's estate of Florica, in Ştefăneşti, Argeş County, he studied in France and after returning to Romania entered politics.

Born in Zbarazh, Galicia, he moved to Romania in 1845.

Born into a working-class family living in a peasant house in Vaslui, Romania.

Born in Braşov ( Kronstadt, Brassó ), Transylvania, nowadays Romania, he studied at the University of Vienna between 1520 and 1525, graduating with a magister artium title.

Born in Bucharest, Romania, Avital made aliyah to Israel with her family in 1950.

Born in Arad, Romania, he presided over the transformation of the race from one with 55 finishers in 1970 to one of the largest marathons in the world with over 43, 660 finishers in 2009.

Born in Temesvár, Kingdom of Hungary, Austria-Hungary ( since 1920 Timişoara, Romania ), Francesco later came to Trieste during World War I as an officer in the army.

Born in Romania, he moved to Ecuador following World War II, and co-authored with Juan Manuel Rodriguez the book Man of Ashes.

Born in London to a Jewish family, whose ancestors came from Russia, Poland and Romania.

Born to Hungarian Jewish parents in Arad, Kingdom of Hungary ( presently in Romania ), Kaufmann was originally destined for a commercial career, and could fulfill his wish to become a painter only later in life.

Born at Naples, Alfonso was the oldest child of Ferdinand I of Naples and his first wife, Isabella of Taranto, the daughter of Tristan, Count of Copertino and Caterina Orsini.

Born in Naples to Ferdinand I and his first wife, Isabella of Taranto, the daughter of Tristan, Count of Copertino and Caterina Orsini, he succeeded his childless nephew Ferdinand II after the latter's early death in 1496, at the age of 28.

Joyce Kilmer ( Born: Alfred Joyce Kilmer, 6 December 1886 – 30 July 1918 ) was an American writer and poet mainly remembered for a short poem titled " Trees " ( 1913 ), which was published in the collection Trees and Other Poems in 1914.

* Lowkey ( Born Kareem Dennis )-Musician, poet, playwright, political activist

Born in Constantinople around 420, he went to Alexandria to study in the school of the Neoplatonic philosopher Proclus ; among his fellow students there were Marcellinus ( magister militum and governor of Illyricum ), Flavius Illustrius Pusaeus ( Praetorian prefect of the East and Consul in 467 ), Messius Phoebus Severus ( Consul in 470 and praefectus urbi ), and Pamprepius ( Pagan poet ).

Born in Rouen some nineteen years after his brother Pierre, the " great Corneille ", Thomas's skill as a poet seems to have shown itself early.

Born in the village of Vayalar, in Alappuzha district, Kerala, Vayalar belonged to an aristocratic family but became a poet of the proletariat inspired by revolutionary ideals.

Born in Windsor, Ontario, she is the long-time partner of poet Christopher Dewdney and resides in Toronto.

Born Julia Ward in New York City, she was the fourth child of banker Samuel Ward and occasional poet Julia Rush Cutler.

Born in Qiantang ( 錢塘, now Hangzhou ), Qu You was famous as an adolescent poet.

Hans Carl Artmann ( Born 12 June 1921 in Vienna, died 4 December 2000 in Vienna ), also known as Ib Hansen, was ( amongst other things ) an Austrian-born poet and writer, most popular for his early poems written in Viennese ( med ana schwoazzn dintn, 1958 ), which however, never after were to be the focus of his oeuvre.

Born Marcus Vinitius da Cruz e Mello Moraes, son of Clodoaldo da Silva Pereira Moraes-a City Hall officer, as well as poet and amateur guitar player-and Lidia Cruz-a housewife and amateur pianist-Vinícius was born in 1913 in the neighborhood of Gávea, then a rural suburb of Rio de Janeiro.

His poems were translated in German by the poet Nicolas Born in 1973 for the renowned " red-frame-series " of the Rowohlt Verlag.

Born in 1848, the year of the Hungarian revolution, Eötvös was the son of József Eötvös, a well-known poet, writer, and liberal politician, who was cabinet minister at the time, and played an important part in 19th century Hungarian intellectual and political life.

Born into an upper-class family in Granada, Nicaragua, Cardenal is a first cousin of the poet Pablo Antonio Cuadra.

We cannot here do more than enumerate the leading troubadours and briefly indicate in what conditions their poetry was developed and through what circumstances it fell into decay and finally disappeared: Peire d ' Alvernha, who in certain respects must be classed with Marcabru ; Arnaut Daniel, remarkable for his complicated versification, the inventor of the sestina, a poetic form for which Dante and Petrarch express an admiration difficult for us to understand ; Arnaut de Mareuil, who, while less famous than Arnaut Daniel, certainly surpasses him in elegant simplicity of form and delicacy of sentiment ; Bertran de Born, now the most generally known of all the troubadours on account of the part he is said to have played both by his sword and his sirveniescs in the struggle between Henry II of England and his rebel sons, though the importance of his part in the events of the time seems to have been greatly exaggerated ; Peire Vidal of Toulouse, a poet of varied inspiration who grew rich with gifts bestowed on him by the greatest nobles of his time ; Guiraut de Borneil, lo macsire dels trobadors, and at any rate master in the art of the so-called close style ( trebar clus ), though he has also left us some songs of charming simplicity ; Gaucelm Faidit, from whom we have a touching lament ( plaint ) on the death of Richard Cœur de Lion ; Folquet of Marseille, the most powerful thinker among the poets of the south, who from being a merchant and troubadour became an abbot, and finally bishop of Toulouse ( d. 1231 ).

Born in New York, United States, John Elkann is the first son of Alain Elkann, a journalist and writer of French and Italian Jewish background, and his then wife Countess Margherita Agnelli de Pahlen, a painter and poet from the Agnelli family.

Born in Trois-Rivières, Québec, Julien was the companion of the poet and Québec provincial MLA Gérald Godin, another Trifluvian and sovereigntist.

Born in Lübeck, his ancestors for three generations had been Protestant pastors ; his father Christian Adolph Overbeck ( 1755 – 1821 ) was doctor of law, poet, mystic pietist and burgomaster of Lübeck.

Born in Amsterdam, as the son of the poet, teacher and philologist Anthonie Oudemans Sr., he entered Leiden University when he was just 16 as a student of the noted astronomer Frederik Kaiser.

Born in Keswick, Cumbria, England, the daughter of a clergyman and granddaughter of a bishop of Carlisle, she arrived in London in 1845 as the protégé of poet Walter Savage Landor.

Born in Cockermouth, Cumberland, he was the youngest brother of the poet William Wordsworth, and was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he became a fellow in 1798.

Born into the Westphalian nobility on the estate of Klemenswerth, near Meppen, his mother, Sibilla Katharina née Busch ( 1791 – 1831 ) was a poet who occasionally published, whilst his father was Paulus Modestus Schücking.

Born in Bristol, he was the son of noted Methodist and hymn-writer Charles Wesley, the grandson of Samuel Wesley ( a poet of the late Stuart period ) and the nephew of John Wesley, the founder of the Methodist church.

Born in Baidoa, Somalia, Farah is the son of a merchant father and a poet mother.

Born in London to the Scottish poet Allan Cunningham, he had his early education at Christ's Hospital, London.