Famous Poets

This list currently contains 137 personalities which there are for example, Jacques Brel, Jean de La Fontaine, Boris Vian, Claude Nougaro, Paul Verlaine, William Shakespeare, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Philippe Léotard, Arthur Rimbaud, Charles Baudelaire, Edmond Rostand, Guillaume Apollinaire, Jean Racine, Jacques Prévert, Théophile Gautier, ...

Théodore Agrippa d'Aubigné

† at 78 years

Théodore Agrippa d'Aubigné

1552 • 1630

Dante Alighieri

† at ~56 years

Dante Alighieri

~1265 • 1321

Guillaume Apollinaire

† at 38 years

Guillaume Apollinaire

1880 • 1918

† at 85 years

1897 • 1982

† at ~60 years

~-445 • ~-385

† at 51 years

1896 • 1948

Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly

† at 80 years

Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly

1808 • 1889

Charles Baudelaire

† at 46 years

Charles Baudelaire

1821 • 1867

† at 83 years

1906 • 1989

Tahar Ben Jelloun

Tahar Ben Jelloun

† at 69 years

1757 • 1827

† at 71 years

1846 • 1917

Nicolas Boileau

† at 74 years

Nicolas Boileau

1636 • 1711

† at 58 years

1898 • 1956

† at 49 years

1929 • 1978

† at 70 years

1896 • 1966

† at 30 years

1818 • 1848

Charles Bukowski

† at 73 years

Charles Bukowski

1920 • 1994

Pedro Calderón de la Barca

† at 81 years

Pedro Calderón de la Barca

1600 • 1681

† at 78 years

Maurice Carême

1899 • 1978

Blaise Cendrars

† at 73 years

Blaise Cendrars

1887 • 1961

† at 94 years

1913 • 2008

† at 90 years

1920 • 2011

† at 31 years

André Chénier

1762 • 1794

Chrétien de Troyes

† at ~50 years

Chrétien de Troyes

~1130 • ~1180

† at 86 years

1868 • 1955

† at 74 years

1889 • 1963

† at 82 years

1934 • 2016

Comte de Lautréamont

† at 24 years

Comte de Lautréamont

1846 • 1870

Aleister Crowley

Born 150 years ago in 2025

† at 72 years

Aleister Crowley

1875 • 1947

† at 87 years

1894 • 1982

Henry David Thoreau

† at 44 years

Henry David Thoreau

1817 • 1862

Miguel de Cervantes

† at 68 years

Miguel de Cervantes

1547 • 1616

Étienne de La Boétie

† at 32 years

Étienne de La Boétie

1530 • 1563

Jean de La Fontaine

† at 73 years

Jean de La Fontaine

1621 • 1695

Alphonse de Lamartine

† at 78 years

Alphonse de Lamartine

1790 • 1869

François de Malherbe

† at ~73 years

François de Malherbe

~1555 • 1628

Tirso de Molina

† at 68 years

Tirso de Molina

1579 • 1648

Alfred de Musset

† at 46 years

Alfred de Musset

1810 • 1857

Gérard de Nerval

† at 46 years

Gérard de Nerval

1808 • 1855

René de Obaldia

† at 103 years

René de Obaldia

1918 • 2022

Pierre de Ronsard

† at 61 years

Pierre de Ronsard

1524 • 1585

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

† at 44 years

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

1900 • 1944

† at 72 years

1562 • 1635

Alfred de Vigny

† at 66 years

Alfred de Vigny

1797 • 1863

Auguste de Villiers de l'Isle-Adam

† at 50 years

Auguste de Villiers de l'Isle-Adam

1838 • 1889

Died 30 years ago in 2024

† at 62 years

1931 • 1994

† at 44 years

1900 • 1945

Emily Dickinson

† at 55 years

Emily Dickinson

1830 • 1886

† at 87 years

1904 • 1991

Joachim du Bellay

† at ~38 years

Joachim du Bellay

~1522 • 1560

Georges Duhamel

† at 81 years

Georges Duhamel

1884 • 1966

† at 56 years

1895 • 1952

Charles Ferdinand Ramuz

† at 68 years

Charles Ferdinand Ramuz

1878 • 1947

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

† at 101 years

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

1919 • 2021

Theodor Fontane

† at 78 years

Theodor Fontane

1819 • 1898

† at 88 years

1872 • 1960

Federico García Lorca

† at 38 years

Federico García Lorca

1898 • 1936

Théophile Gautier

† at 61 years

Théophile Gautier

1811 • 1872

† at 75 years

1910 • 1986

Maurice Genevoix

† at 89 years

Maurice Genevoix

1890 • 1980

† at 70 years

1926 • 1997

† at 87 years

1840 • 1928

† at 58 years

1797 • 1856

† at ~61 years

~78 • ~139

† at 72 years

1889 • 1961

† at 85 years

1877 • 1962

† at ~60 years

~-800 • ~-740

† at 56 years

-65 • -8

Philippe Jaccottet

Born 100 years ago in 2025

† at 95 years

Philippe Jaccottet

1925 • 2021

† at 34 years

1873 • 1907

Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle

† at 76 years

Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle

1760 • 1836

† at 58 years

1882 • 1941

Marcus Junius Brutus

† at ~43 years

Marcus Junius Brutus

~-85 • -42

† at 25 years

1795 • 1821

† at 47 years

1922 • 1969

Søren Kierkegaard

† at 42 years

Søren Kierkegaard

1813 • 1855

† at ~42 years

~1524 • 1566

† at 81 years

Selma Lagerlöf

1858 • 1940

Leconte de Lisle

† at 75 years

Leconte de Lisle

1818 • 1894

† at 89 years

1901 • 1990

Francis Lemarque

† at 84 years

Francis Lemarque

1917 • 2002

Philippe Léotard

† at 60 years

Philippe Léotard

1940 • 2001

Raymond Lévesque

† at 92 years

Raymond Lévesque

1928 • 2021