Redigerer Lyrikkåret 1859 (avsnitt)

== Fødsler ==
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|Januar 
| 13. || [[Kostis Palamas]] || {{Flaggnasjonalitet|Hellas|1859}} || poet og forfatter ||align=center|84 ||align=center|[[Lyrikkåret 1943|1943]] || <ref>{{SNL|Kostis_Palamas|Kostis Palamas}}</ref>
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|Februar 
|25. || {{Nowrap|[[James Kenneth Stephen]]}} || {{Flaggnasjonalitet|England|1859}} || poet ||align=center|32 ||align=center|[[Lyrikkåret 1892|1892]] || <ref>[https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n85248256.html Stephen, James Kenneth, 1859-1892] i [[Library of Congress]]</ref>
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|rowspan=2|Mars 
| 9. || [[Peter Altenberg]] || {{Nowrap|{{Flaggnasjonalitet|Østerrike|1859}}}} || forfatter og poet ||align=center|59 ||align=center|[[Lyrikkåret 1919|1919]] || <ref>{{SNL|Peter_Altenberg|Peter Altenberg}}</ref>
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|26. || [[Alfred Edward Housman|A. E. Housman]] || {{Flaggnasjonalitet|Storbritannia|1859}} || [[poet]] og akademiker ||align=center|77 ||align=center|[[Lyrikkåret 1936|1936]] || <ref>{{SNL|Alfred_Edward_Housman|Alfred Edward Housman}}</ref>
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|Juli
|6. || [[Verner von Heidenstam]] || {{Flaggnasjonalitet|Sverige|1859}} || [[forfatter]] og [[poet]] som var medlem av [[Svenska Akademien]] i perioden 1912&ndash;1940 og vinner av [[nobelprisen i litteratur]] i 1916 ||align=center|80 ||align=center|[[Lyrikkåret 1940|1940]] || <ref>{{SNL|Verner_von_Heidenstam|Verner von Heidenstam}}</ref>
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|August 
| 4. || [[Knut Hamsun]] || {{Flaggnasjonalitet|Norge|1859}} || romanforfatter, lyriker, dramatiker, kritiker og skribent||align=center|92 ||align=center|[[Lyrikkåret 1952|1952]] || <ref>{{SNL|Knut_Hamsun|Knut Hamsun}}</ref> 
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|Desember 
| 18. || [[Francis Thompson]] || {{Flaggnasjonalitet|England|1859}} || poet ||align=center|47 ||align=center|[[Lyrikkåret 1907|1907]] || <ref>{{SNL|Francis_Thompson|Francis Thompson}}</ref>
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<!--* February 24 &ndash; [[Susie Frances Riley]], [[Canadian poetry|Canadian]] poet<ref name=rgpbcv>Gustafson, Ralph, ''The Penguin Book of Canadian Verse'', revised edition, 1967, Baltimore, Maryland: Penguin Books</ref>
* April 5 &ndash; [[William Herbert Carruth]] (died [[1924 in poetry|1924]]), [[American poetry|American]] educator and poet
* May 6 &ndash; [[Willem Kloos]] (died [[1938 in poetry|1938]]), [[Dutch poetry|Dutch]] poet and critic
* June 10 &ndash; [[Jacques Perk]] (died [[1881 in poetry|1881]]), [[Dutch poetry|Dutch]] poet
* June 12 &ndash; [[Guido Mazzoni (poet)|Guido Mazzoni]] (died [[1943 in poetry|1943]]), [[Italian poetry|Italian]] poet
* July 17 &ndash; [[Ernest Rhys]] (died [[1946 in poetry|1946]]), [[English poetry|English]] writer, essayist, poet, novelist, playwright and short-story writer best known as founding editor of Everyman's Library series of affordable classics
* August 12 &ndash; [[Katharine Lee Bates]] (died [[1929 in poetry|1929]]), [[American poetry|American]] poet best known as the author of the words to the anthem "[[America the Beautiful]]"; her poem "Goody Santa Claus on a Sleigh Ride" ([[1889 in poetry|1889]]) popularizes [[Mrs. Claus|"Mrs. Santa Claus"]]
* November 2 &ndash; [[Augusta Peaux]] (died [[1944 in poetry|1944]]), [[Dutch poetry|Dutch]] poet
* November 4 &ndash; [[Perceval Gibbon]] (died [[1926 in poetry|1926]]), [[South African poetry|South African]] poet, short-story writer, author and journalist
* Also &ndash; [[Narasinghrao]] (died [[1937 in poetry|1937]]), [[Indian poetry|Indian]], [[Gujarati poetry|Gujarati]]-language poet and writer<ref name=20csjm>Mohan, Sarala Jag, [https://books.google.com/books?id=1lTnv6o-d_oC&pg=PA100&lpg=PP9&dq=Urdu+poets&num=100&output=html Chapter 4: "Twentieth-Century Gujarati Literature"] (Google books link), in Natarajan, Nalini, and Emanuel Sampath Nelson, editors, ''Handbook of Twentieth-century Literatures of India'', Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Publishing Group, 1996, {{ISBN|978-0-313-28778-7}}, retrieved December 10, 2008</ref>-->