Hope"; died 1904), English May 2 – William Gay (died 1897), Scottish-born Australian May 5 – Helen Maud Merrill (died 1943), American May 15 – Albert Verwey (died 1937), Dutch May 20 – Henry Ernest Boote (died 1949), English-born Australian June 13 – W. B. Yeats (died 1939), Irish poet and playwright July 18 – Dowell O'Reilly (died 1923), Australian July 21 (or 1868?) – Thomas William Hodgson Crosland (died 1924), English writer and poet September 12 – Sophus Claussen (died 1931), Danish September 21 – Francis Kenna (died 1932), Australian December 30 Rudyard Kipling (died 1936), Indian-born English novelist, writer and poet Emily Julian McManus (died 1918), Canadian poet, author, and educator Also: Kunjikuttan Thampuran (died 1913), Indian, Malayalam-language poet Samuel Williamson (died 1936), Australian Deaths Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: May 1 – Isaac Williams (born 1802), English writer, poet and clergyman June 10 – Mrs. Lydia Sigourney, the "Sweet Singer of Hartford" (born 1791), American August 4 – William Edmondstoune Aytoun (born 1813), Scottish lawyer and poet September 29 – Richard Lower (born 1782), English dialect poet October 15 – Andrés Bello (born 1781), Venezuelan humanist, diplomat, poet, legislator, philosopher, educator and philologist November 9 – George Arnold (born 1834), American writer, poet and artist See also 19th century in poetry 19th century in literature List of years in poetry List of years in literature Victorian literature French literature of the 19th century Poetry Notes Poetry 19th-century poetry