* 1914 – Félix Leclerc, Canadian singer-songwriter, actor, and poet ( d. 1988 )

* 1916 – Anne Hébert, Canadian author and poet ( d. 2000 )

* 1827 – Octave Crémazie, Canadian poet ( d. 1879 )

A cheese of 7, 000 lb ( 3, 175 kg ) was produced in Ingersoll, Ontario, in 1866 and exhibited in New York and Britain ; it was immortalised in the poem " Ode on the Mammoth Cheese Weighing over 7, 000 Pounds " by James McIntyre, a Canadian poet.

* 1939 – Raôul Duguay, Canadian artist, poet, musician, and political activist

* Canadian poet and singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen recited the poem as an introduction to his own song " The Darkness ", during a couple of shows on his 2010 world tour, most notably at his State Kremlin Palace show on 7 October.

* John-James Ford ( born 1972 ), Canadian foreign service officer who gained notability as poet, short story writer and novelist ; winner of 2006 Ottawa Book Award

* 1929 – Bliss Carman, Canadian poet ( b. 1861 )

* 1874 – Robert W. Service, Canadian poet ( d. 1958 )

* 1879 – Octave Crémazie, French Canadian poet ( b. 1827 )

* 1860 – Charles G. D. Roberts, Canadian poet and writer ( d. 1943 )

* 1942 – Pierre Morency, Canadian poet and playwright

* 1986 – Elizabeth Smart, Canadian poet and novelist ( b. 1913 )

* 1939 – Margaret Atwood, Canadian poet, novelist, critic and essayist

* 1839 – Louis-Honoré Fréchette, French Canadian poet ( d. 1908 )

* 1916 – P. K. Page, Canadian poet ( d. 2010 )

* 1928 – Gilles Vigneault, Canadian poet, singer and songwriter

The song was originally commissioned by Lieutenant Governor of Quebec Théodore Robitaille for the 1880 Saint-Jean-Baptiste Day ceremony ; Calixa Lavallée wrote the music as a setting of a French Canadian patriotic poem composed by poet and judge Sir Adolphe-Basile Routhier.

* Rhea Tregebov ( b. 1953 ), Canadian poet and children's author

* 1981 – Chief Dan George, Canadian actor, author, and poet ( b. 1899 )

In 1904 Canadian poet Bliss Carman published Sappho: One Hundred Lyrics, which was not just a translation of the fragments but an imaginative reconstruction of the lost poems.

* Bliss Carman-19th-century Canadian poet

* Sir Charles G. D. Roberts-19th-century Canadian poet

* Patrick Lane, poet and the recipient of almost every major Canadian literary prize

* April 26 – E. J. Pratt, Canadian poet ( b. 1882 )

* 1932 – John Gomery, Canadian jurist

* 1947 – John Stocker, Canadian voice actor

* 1886 – John Alexander Douglas McCurdy Canadian pilot and engineer ( d. 1961 )

* 1925 – John McCormack, Canadian ice hockey player

* 1878 – John Corry Wilson Daly, Canadian politician ( b. 1796 )

* 1921 – John Herbert Chapman, Canadian physicist ( d. 1979 )

* 1831 – John Jones Ross, Canadian politician, 7th Premier of Quebec ( d. 1901 )

* John Wallace de Beque Farris, Canadian senator

* 1915 – John Labatt, Canadian businessman and brewer ( b. 1838 )

* 1998 – John Bassett, Canadian publisher ( b. 1915 )

* John Morgan-Canadian comedian best known for his roles on Royal Canadian Air Farce.

* 1949 – John Gourlay, Canadian football player ( b. 1872 )

The three cup anemometer developed by the Canadian John Patterson in 1926 and subsequent cup improvements by Brevoort & Joiner of the USA in 1935 led to a cupwheel design which was linear and had an error of less than 3 % up to.

The other judges were John Toohey QC, a former Justice of the High Court of Australia who had worked on Aboriginal issues ( he replaced New Zealander Sir Edward Somers QC, who retired from the Inquiry in 2000 for personal reasons ), and Mr Justice William Hoyt QC, former Chief Justice of New Brunswick and a member of the Canadian Judicial Council.

Before the speech, US delegations met with Canadian Prime Minister John Diefenbaker, British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, and French President Charles de Gaulle to brief them on the US intelligence and their proposed response.

An area within the region where both fiscal and social conservatism do coincide and where the federal Reform Party and Canadian Alliance have met success is in the central-western part of New Brunswick, in the St. John River valley north of Saint John and south of Grand Falls.

* 1899 – John Qualen, Canadian actor ( d. 1987 )

* 1978 – John Morris, Canadian Curler

A historical note on the Reverend John Clinch, first Canadian vaccinator.

* 1932 – John Vernon, Canadian actor ( d. 2005 )

* 1804 – John Charles Prince, Canadian Roman Catholic Bishop ( d. 1860 )

* 1931 – John Paul Harney, Canadian politician

* John David Ford, Canadian political figure ; Green Party leader in Ottawa South ; candidate in 2004 and 2006 federal elections ( Ontario electoral reform referendum, 2007 )

* John Ford Messer ( 1889 – 1949 ), Canadian local-level legislator ; served as Conservative member of New Brunswick Legislative Assembly from 1939 to 1944