Holley Chivers (died 1858), American doctor-turned-poet best known for his friendship with Edgar Allan Poe and his controversial defense of the poet after his death October 24 – John Barr (died 1889), Scottish-New Zealander November 27 – Fanny Kemble (died 1893), American and English actress, author and poet Undated Kasiprasad Ghose (died 1873), Indian Mangkunegara IV (died 1881), Javanese ruler of Mangkunegaran and poet Deaths Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: January 15 (or January 16) – Karl Friedrich Kretschmann (born 1738), German poet, playwright and storyteller March 11 – Hannah Cowley (born 1743), English playwright and poet March 23 – Thomas Holcroft (born 1745), English novelist, poet and playwright March 25 – Anna Seward, called "the Swan of Lichfield" (born 1747), English poet May 1 – Gottlieb Konrad Pfeffel (born 1736), German writer, military scientist, educator and poet August 8 – Ueda Akinari, 上田 秋成, also known as "Ueda Shūsei" (born 1734), Japanese author, scholar and waka poet Undated – Jagannatha Dasa (born 1728), Indian devotional poet See also Poetry List of years in poetry List of years in literature 19th century in literature 19th century in poetry Romantic poetry Golden Age of Russian Poetry (1800–1850) Weimar Classicism period in Germany, commonly considered to have begun in 1788 and to have ended either in 1805, with the death of Friedrich Schiller, or 1832, with the death of Goethe List of poets Notes "A Timeline of English Poetry" Web page of the Representative Poetry Online Web site, University of Toronto 19th-century poetry Poetry