– Bakhtiyar Vahabzadeh (died 2009), Azerbaijani poet and philologist September 16 – Samuel Menashe (died 2011), American poet; first to receive "The Neglected Masters Award" given by the U.S. Poetry Foundation in 2004 October 8 – Philip Booth (died 2007), American poet and educator October 28 – Ian Hamilton Finlay (died 2006), Scottish poet, writer, artist and gardener November 15 – Heinz Piontek (died 2003), German November 27 – Munier Choudhury (died 1971), Bengali educator, playwright, literary critic and political dissident December 10 – Carolyn Kizer (died 2014), American poet and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1985 December 12 – Laurence Lerner (died 2016), South African-born poet and academic Deaths Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: January 31 – George Washington Cable, 80, American novelist and poet February 15 – Kinoshita Rigen , pen-name of Kinoshita Toshiharu (born 1886), Japanese Meiji- and Taishō-period tanka poet (surname of this pen name: Rigen) February 22 – Nina Salaman, 47 (born 1877), English poet noted for her translations from medieval Hebrew poetry; cancer May 12 – Amy Lowell, 51 (born 1874), American poet of the imagist school; posthumously wins the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1926 June 6 – Pierre Louÿs, 54 (born 1870), French poet June 17 – A. C. Benson, 63, English author and poet who wrote the words to "Land of Hope and Glory" June 27 – A. D. Godley, 69, Irish-born English classical scholar and writer of light verse September 11 – Gustav Kastropp, 81 (born 1844) German poet and librettist October 27 – Darrell Figgis, 43 (born 1882), Irish poet and nationalist; suicide December 28 – Sergei Yesenin, 30, Russian poet See also Poetry List of poetry awards List of years in poetry New Objectivity in German literature and art Notes 20th-century poetry Poetry