(born 1906), American pulp fiction writer and poet, suicide June 14 – G. K. Chesterton, 62 (born 1874), English writer, journalist, poet, biographer and Catholic apologist July 4 – Edappally Raghavan Pillai, 27 (born 1909), Indian, Malayalam-language poet, suicide August 19 – Federico García Lorca, 38 (born 1898), Spanish dramatist, poet, painter, pianist, composer and emblematic member of the Generation of '27, killed by Nationalist partisans at the beginning of the Spanish Civil War (see "Works published" above) September 26 – Harriet Monroe, 75 (born 1860), American editor, scholar, literary critic and patron of the arts best known as founder and longtime editor of Poetry magazine, of a cerebral haemorrhage October 5 – J. Slauerhoff, 38 (born 1898), Dutch poet and novelist, of aggravated tuberculosis December 28 – John Cornford, 21 (born 1915), English Communist poet, in the Spanish Civil War December 31 – Miguel de Unamuno, 72 (born 1864), Spanish essayist, novelist, poet, playwright, and philosopher Also: Kattakkayathil Cherian Mappila (born 1859), Indian, Malayalam-language poet See also Poetry List of poetry awards List of years in poetry Notes Poetry 20th-century poetry