Home, verse pamphlet, Australia Henry Kendall, Poems and Songs, Australia Works published in other languages Aleardo Aleardi, Canto politico ("Political Songs"), Italy Charles Baudelaire, Petits poèmes en prose, France Dalpatram, editor, Kavhadohan, an anthology of Gujarati-language poetry (India) Leconte de Lisle, Poèmes barbares, France Henrik Ibsen, Terje Vigen, Norway Births Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: January 10 – Hoshino Tenchi 星野天知 (died 1950), Japanese Meiji period poet and martial arts master; a co-founder of Bungakukai literary magazine; 8th Grand Master and a teacher of the Yagyu Shinkage-ryu martial-arts school (surname: Hoshino) January 12 – Edith Emma Cooper, half of "Michael Field" (died 1913), English January 24 – Edith Wharton (died 1937), American fiction writer c. January 28 – Ella Rhoads Higginson (died 1940), American February 17 – Mori Ōgai 森 鷗外 / 森 鴎外 (died 1922) Japanese physician, translator, novelist and poet (surname: Mori) March 2 – John Jay Chapman (died 1923), American writer April 24 – A. C. Benson (died 1925), English May 22 – John Kendrick Bangs (died 1922), American June 6 – Sir Henry Newbolt (died 1938), English June 18 – Carolyn Wells (died 1942), American novelist and poet August 2 – Duncan Campbell Scott (died 1947), Canadian September 28 – W. T. Goodge (died 1909), Australian October 29 – John Bernard O'Hara (died 1927), Australian November 4 – Jean Blewett (died 1934), Canadian November 5 – Thomas William Heney (died 1928), Australian Deaths Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: February 11 – Elizabeth Siddall (born 1829), English artist, artist's model and poet, wife of Dante Gabriel Rossetti; from an opium overdose February 14 – Emily Rebecca Page (born 1834), American poet and editor February 21 – Justinus Kerner (born 1786), German poet of the Swabian school and physician February 24 – Bernhard Severin Ingemann (born 1789), Danish poet, playwright and historical novelist March 13 – Roderick Flanagan (born 1828), Australian May 6 – Henry David Thoreau (born 1817), American author, poet, naturalist, tax resister, development critic, surveyor, historian, philosopher and leading transcendentalist; from tuberculosis August 23 – Friedrich Julius Hammer (born 1810), German poet date not known – Gopala Krishna Pattanayak (born 1785), Indian, Oriya-language poet 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