* 1732 – John Gay, English poet and dramatist ( b. 1685 )

* 1918 – Edmond Rostand, French poet and dramatist ( b. 1868 )

* 1572 – Jan Campanus, Czech humanist, composer, pedagogue, poet, and dramatist ( d. 1622 )

* 1905 – Daniil Kharms, Soviet-era surrealist and absurdist poet, writer and dramatist ( d. 1942 )

Eden Phillpotts ( 4 November 1862 – 29 December 1960 ) was an English author, poet and dramatist.

This early form of democracy was recorded by the philosopher Rousseau, by the poet Wordsworth, by the dramatist Tirso de Molina and by the composer Iparraguirre, who wrote the piece called Gernikako Arbola.

When he was in Belgrade in 1912 and 1913, preparing for his exams at the First Belgrade Gymnasium, Princip's sole friend was Momčilo Nastasijević, who grew up to become a poet and dramatist.

* John Ford ( dramatist ) ( 1586 – ca. 1640 ), English playwright and poet during Jacobean and Caroline literary eras ; best known for 1633 tragedy Tis Pity She's a Whore

* 1889 – Jaishankar Prasad, Indian poet and dramatist ( d. 1937 )

Jean Maurice Eugène Clément Cocteau (; 5 July 1889 – 11 October 1963 ) was a French poet, novelist, dramatist, designer, playwright, artist and filmmaker.

* 1922 – Howard Moss, American poet, dramatist, and critic ( d. 1987 )

He was also considered an important musician, poet, dramatist, exeget, theologian, and logician-a polymathic personality who exercised strong influences on Indian culture.

* 1922 – Salil Chowdhury, Indian music composer, poet, writer, dramatist and filmmaker ( d. 1995 )

* Donald Rawe, Cornish publisher, dramatist, novelist, and poet, was born in Padstow.

Authors connected to Stockholm include the poet and songwriter Carl Michael Bellman ( 1740 – 1795 ), novelist and dramatist August Strindberg ( 1849 – 1912 ), and novelist Hjalmar Söderberg ( 1869 – 1941 ), all of whom made Stockholm part of their works.

In the early 1900s, American poet, biographer and dramatist Edgar Lee Masters, 1868-1950, commented:

Neifile narrates this tale, which was written first by the Sanskrit dramatist and poet Kālidāsa in his The Recognition of Śakuntalā.

* John Gay, English dramatist and poet

* Kong Shangren, Chinese dramatist, poet

* March 14 – Hannah Cowley, English dramatist and poet ( d. 1809 )

* April 3 – Henrik Visnapuu, Estonian poet and dramatist ( b. 1890 )

* November 28 – Václav Renč, Czech poet, dramatist and translator ( d. 1973 )

* June 21 – Leandro Fernández de Moratín, dramatist and poet ( b. 1760 )

* Abhinavagupta, Indian philosopher, logician, musician, poet and dramatist from the Kashmir region

* April 25 – Christopher Hassall, English actor, dramatist, librettist, lyricist, and poet, heart attack ( b. 1912 )

One beat poet composes a poem, `` Lines On A Tijuana John '', which contains a few happy hints for survival.

Incurably optimistic, dogmatic, and utterly fearless, in his youth a devout Baptist, in spite of his friendship for the Quaker poet John Greenleaf Whittier ( 1807-1892 ) he eventually attacked the orthodox churches for what he deemed their cowardly compromising on the slavery issue and in his invariably ardent manner was emphatically unorthodox and denied the plenary inspiration of the Bible.

* 1889 – John Middleton Murry, English poet ( d. 1957 )

* 1631 – John Dryden, English poet and playwright ( d. 1700 )

* 1653 – John Oldham, English poet ( d. 1683 )

They are said to go back at least to the Greek poet Lycophron, in the third century BCE ; but this relies on an account of Lycophron given by John Tzetzes in the 12th century.

" Amazing Grace " is a Christian hymn with words written by the English poet and clergyman John Newton ( 1725 – 1807 ), published in 1779.

* 1906 – John Betjeman, English poet ( d. 1984 )

John Dube, its first president, and poet and author Sol Plaatje are among its founding members.

* 1648 – John Sheffield, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Normanby, English statesman and poet ( d. 1721 )

This view is presented in English poet John Keats ' poem To Autumn, where he describes the season as a time of bounteous fecundity, a time of ' mellow fruitfulness '.

Charles was the resident poet on Channel 4's Black on Black ( 1985 ), and its entertainment-based successor, Club Mix ( 1986 ), and appeared, weekly, as a John Cooper Clarke-style ' punk poet ' on the BBC2 pop music programme Oxford Road Show under the name of " Susan Williams ".

The historical novelist and poet Maurice Hewlett published a series of articles in the literary journal John O ' London's Weekly, in which he concluded: " And knowing children, and knowing that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle has legs, I decide that the Miss Carpenters have pulled one of them.

Near the end of the 17th century, John Phillips, a nephew of poet John Milton, published what is considered by Putnam the worst English translated version.

Orville Wright, poet Paul Laurence Dunbar, and entrepreneur John H. Patterson were born in Dayton.

* 1608 – John Milton, English poet ( d. 1674 )

* 2008: The Edge of Love starring Matthew Rhys as the poet, directed by John Maybury, written by Sharman Macdonald, and drawing on David N. Thomas ' book Dylan Thomas: A Farm, Two Mansions and a Bungalow.

In due course, opposition to the divine right of kings came from a number of sources, including poet John Milton in his pamphlet The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates.

Thompson was born in Oxford to Methodist missionary parents: His father, Edward John Thompson ( 1886-1946 ) was a poet and admirer of the Nobel-prize winning poet Tagore.

* 1692 – John Byrom, English poet ( d. 1763 )

* 1929 – John Montague, Irish poet