– Arthur Shearly Cripps (died 1952), English Anglican priest, short story writer and poet spending most of his life in Southern Rhodesia (modern-day Zimbabwe) July 8 – William Vaughn Moody (died 1910), American August 6: Marie E. J. Pitt (died 1948), Australian poet, journalist and political activist David McKee Wright (died 1928), Irish-born poet and journalist, active in New Zealand and Australia August 7 – E. J. Brady (died 1952), Australian poet, wharf clerk, farmer and journalist; founder of the artist colony at Mallacoota, Victoria in Australia August 10 – Laurence Binyon (died 1943), English poet, dramatist and art scholar August 21 – Will H. Ogilvie (died 1963), Scottish-Australian narrative poet and horseman October 6 – Bo Bergman (died 1967), Swedish writer and critic November 15 Charlotte Mew (suicide 1928), English Arnold Wall (died 1966), Ceylonese-born New Zealand philologist, poet, botanist and radio broadcaster November 20 – Zinaida Gippius (died 1945), Russian poet, novelist and playwright December 1 – George Sterling (died 1926), American December 22 – Edwin Arlington Robinson (died 1935), American Pulitzer Prize-winning poet December 30 – Stephen Leacock (died 1944), English-born Canadian humorist and political scientist Also: Miltiadis Malakasis (died 1943), Greek Balawantrai Thakore (died 1952), the first Imagist and formalist poet in Indian, Gujarati-language literature; introduced into Gujarati the sonnet and prithvi meter, "which is closest to English blank verse", according to The Handbook of Twentieth-Century Indian Literature Deaths Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: January 30 – Charlotte Alington Barnard (born 1830), English poet and composer of ballads and hymns February 15 – Mirza Ghalib (born 1797), classical Urdu and Persian poet from India February 28 – Alphonse de Lamartine (born 1790), French writer, poet and politician November 3 – Andreas Kalvos (born 1792), Greek 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