March 18 – David Mills (died 1903), Canadian poet, politician, author and jurist June 13 – James Clerk Maxwell (died 1879), Scottish mathematician and theoretical physicist whose poetry was published by a friend in 1881, two years after his death July 7 – Jane Elizabeth Conklin (died 1914), American poet and religious writer September 12 – Álvares de Azevedo (died 1852), Brazilian October 17 – Isa Craig (died 1903), Scots November 8 – Robert Bulwer-Lytton (died 1891), English novelist and poet December 22 – Charles Stuart Calverley, English poet, wit and literary father of what has been called "the university school of humour" Date not known – Charles R. Thatcher (thought to have died in 1882), Australian Deaths Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: January 14 – Henry Mackenzie (born 1745), Scottish novelist, writer, critic and poet January 21 – Ludwig Achim von Arnim (born 1781), German poet and novelist March 8 - Laurence Hynes Halloran, 64, Irish-Australian pioneer schoolteacher and journalist; publishes poetry before being shipped to Australia as a convict May 11 – John Trumbull, 81 (born 1750), American June 30 - William Roscoe (born 1753), English poet December 23 - Henry Louis Vivian Derozio, 22 (born 1809), Indian poet writing in English and academic of Eurasian and Portuguese descent Also - Ryōkan 良寛 (born 1758), Japanese waka poet and calligrapher, Buddhist monk, often a hermit See also List of years in poetry List of years in literature 19th century in poetry 19th century in literature Golden Age of Russian Poetry (1800–1850) Weimar Classicism period in Germany, commonly considered to have begun in 1788 and to have ended either in 1805, with the death of Friedrich Schiller, or 1832, with the death of Goethe Lists of poets Poetry Notes 19th-century poetry Poetry