poet and novelist April 29 – Alejandra Pizarnik (suicide 1972), Argentinian poet May 28 – Fred Chappell, American poet, author and academic June 24 – J. H. Prynne, English poet, writer, academic, key figure in the British Poetry Revival and a major contributor to The English Intelligencer June 26 – Elisabeth Harvor, Canadian novelist and poet June 27 – Lucille Clifton (died 2010), African-American poet and feminist July 9 – June Jordan (died 2002), African-American political activist, writer, poet and teacher July 11 – Al Mahmud (died 2019), Bengali poet September 11 – Sandra Hochman, American poet November 4 – C. K. Williams (died 2015), American poet November 17 – Tarapada Roy (died 2007), Bengali poet, essayist and short-story writer known for his satirical sense of humour November 23 – Mats Traat (died 2022), Estonian poet and writer November 25 – William McIlvanney (died 2015), Scottish novelist, short story writer and poet November 27 – Dahlia Ravikovitch (died 2005), Israeli poet December 1 George Bowering, Canadian novelist, poet, historian and biographer Saqi Farooqi (died 2018), Indian-born Pakistani Urdu poet December 4 – Ken Smith (died 2003), English poet, academic and an editor of the quarterly Stand from in 1963 to 1972 December 17 – Frank Martinus Arion (died 2015), Curaçaoan novelist and poet December 26 – Tormod MacGill-Eain (died 2017), Scottish Gaelic comedian, novelist, poet, musician and broadcaster December 27 – Sandra Gilbert, American poet, critic and academic Also: Stewart Conn, Scottish poet and playwright Rashid Hussein (died 1977), Palestinian Arabic poet Clarence Major, American poet, novelist and painter Christopher Wiseman, English-born Canadian poet David Young, American poet and translator, editor and co-founder of FIELD magazine Deaths Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: January – Jamil Sidqi al-Zahawi, 73, Arab poet, philosopher and champion of women's rights January 18 – Rudyard Kipling, 70 (born 1865), English author and poet, winner of the Nobel prize for literature in 1907 March 1 – Mikhail Kuzmin, 64 (born 1872), Russian poet, novelist and composer March 3 – Govinda Krishna Chettur, 37 (born 1898), Indian poet writing in English March 6 – Carlos Oquendo de Amat, 31 (born 1905), Peruvian-born poet, author of 5 Meters of Poems (1927) April 30 – A. E. Housman, 77 (born 1859), English poet, writer and classical scholar, best known for his cycle of poems A Shropshire Lad June 11 – Robert E. Howard, 30