He befriended English poet Matthew Arnold and English philosopher Herbert Spencer as well as being in correspondence and acquaintance with most of the U. S. Presidents, statesmen, and notable writers.

* George Herbert, pastor and poet, 1633 ( commemoration, Anglican Communion )

* August 20 – Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury, English diplomat, poet, and philosopher ( b. 1583 )

* April 3 – George Herbert, English poet and orator ( d. 1633 )

* March 1 – George Herbert, English poet and orator ( b. 1593 )

* March 3 – Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury, English diplomat, poet, and philosopher ( d. 1648 )

Among the distinguished faculty, present and past, are composers David Rakowski and Leonard Bernstein, social theorist Herbert Marcuse, psychologist Abraham Maslow, human rights activist Eleanor Roosevelt, Anita Hill, historian David Hackett Fischer, economist Thomas Sowell, diplomat Dennis Ross, children's author Margret Rey, sociologist Morrie Schwartz, and poet Adrienne Rich.

* W. Herbert Brewster ( 1897 – 1987 ) was an influential African American Baptist minister, composer, dramatist, singer, poet and community leader.

In England a letter of protest signed by A. S. Neill and the poet Herbert Read ( 1893 – 1968 ) also failed to find a publisher.

" The poet seems to have adhered closely to the politics of his patron, Philip Herbert, 4th Earl of Pembroke, who had leanings to democracy and was a personal enemy of the Duke of Buckingham.

* March 1-George Herbert, poet ( born 1593 )

* April 3-George Herbert, poet

* Herbert Trench, poet

Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury KB ( 3 March 1583 – 20 August 1648 ) was an Anglo-Welsh soldier, diplomat, historian, poet and religious philosopher of the Kingdom of England.

He was the eldest son of Richard Herbert of Montgomery Castle ( a member of a collateral branch of the family of the Earls of Pembroke ) and of Magdalen, daughter of Sir Richard Newport, and brother of the poet George Herbert.

The Lazarus Effect ( 1983 ) is the third science fiction novel set in the Destination: Void universe by the American author Frank Herbert and poet Bill Ransom.

* Zbigniew Herbert ( 1924 – 1998 ), Polish poet, eseist and playwright, art director of the Juliusz Osterwa Theatre in Gorzów in 1965 / 66

Herbert was the son of Richard Herbert of Montgomery Castle, and a younger brother of Edward Herbert, Baron Herbert of Cherbury and the poet George Herbert.

Its members included: Lady Diana Manners, the most famous beauty in England ; Duff Cooper who became a Conservative politician and a diplomat ; Raymond Asquith, son of the Prime Minister and a famed barrister ; Maurice Baring ; Patrick Shaw-Stewart, a managing director of Barings Bank and war poet ; Nancy Cunard and her friend Iris Tree ; Edward Horner and Sir Denis Anson.

Herbert Asquith, second son of the first Earl, was a poet, novelist and lawyer.

* Herbert Asquith ( 1881 – 1947 ), the Prime Minister's second son, a poet

* 1881 – Ya ' akov Cohen, Israeli poet ( d. 1960 )

* Sotiris Skipis ( 1881 – 1952 ), poet

* 1881 – Jacob Fichman, Romanian-born Israeli poet and essayist ( d. 1958 )

* 1881 – Elizabeth Madox Roberts, American poet and author ( d. 1941 )

* 1821 – Henri-Frédéric Amiel, Swiss philosopher, poet, and critic ( d. 1881 )

This painting completed in 1881, depicts Sappho and her companions listening as the poet Alcaeus plays a " kithara ", on the island of Lesbos ( Mytilene ).

* August 5 – Edgar Guest, English poet ( b. 1881 )

* November 20 – Ya ' akov Cohen, Israeli poet ( b. 1881 )

* July 8 – Giovanni Papini, Italian essayist, poet, novelist ( b. 1881 )

* Johanna van Buren ( 1881 – 1981 ), poet

The Lanier Library Association is named for poet Sidney Lanier died September 7, 1881 in " the Wilcox home " on Highway 108 in Lynn, three miles ( 5 km ) of Tryon, which has been since known as the Lanier House.

Marcus Clarke in 1874Marcus Andrew Hislop Clarke ( 24 April 1846 – 2 August 1881 ) was an Australian novelist and poet, best known for his novel For the Term of his Natural Life.

Lascelles Abercrombie ( also known as the Georgian Laureate, linking him with the " Georgian poets ") ( 9 January 1881 – 27 October 1938 ) was a British poet and literary critic, one of the " Dymock poets ".

George Linnaeus Banks ( 2 March 1821 – 3 May 1881 ), husband of author Isabella Banks, was a British journalist, editor, poet, playwright, amateur actor, orator, and Methodist.

Sidney Lanier ( February 3, 1842 – September 7, 1881 ) was an American musician and poet.

Pinafore ( 1878 ); Major-General Stanley in The Pirates of Penzance, who is an expert at everything except " military knowledge " ( 1880 ); the aesthetic poet, Reginald Bunthorne in Patience ( 1881 ); the love-lonely Lord Chancellor in Iolanthe ( 1882 ); the sarcastic cripple, King Gama, in Princess Ida ( 1884 ); Ko-Ko the cheap tailor, elevated to the post of Lord High Executioner, in The Mikado ( 1885 ); the accursed Robin Oakapple in Ruddigore ( 1887 ); and the pathetic jester, Jack Point, in The Yeomen of the Guard ( 1888 ).

* Anton Wildgans ( 1881 – 1932 ), poet

Juan Ramón Jiménez Mantecón ( 23 December 1881 – 29 May 1958 ) was a Spanish poet, a prolific writer who received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1956.

William Horace de Vere Cole ( 5 May 1881, Ballincurrig, Co. Cork, Ireland – 25 February 1936, Paris, France ) was an eccentric prankster and poet, born in Ireland, then part of the United Kingdom.

Elie ( Edwin J. Luce 1881 – 1918 ) was editor of the French-language newspaper La Nouvelle Chronique de Jersey and a poet who wrote topical poems for the newspaper.

Gregorio Martínez Sierra ( 6 May 1881 – 1 October 1947 ) was a Spanish writer, poet, dramatist and theatre director, a key figure in the revival of the Spanish theatrical avant-garde in the early twentieth century.

* Giovanni Ruffini ( 1807 – 1881 ), Italian poet and librettist

Arthur William Edgar O ' Shaughnessy ( 14 March 184430 January 1881 ) was a British poet of Irish descent, born in London.

Octavian Goga (; April 1, 1881 – May 7, 1938 ) was a Romanian politician, poet, playwright, journalist, and translator.