Today in history

• 1620

  Thomas Campion – On March the 1st, 1620 Thomas Campion passes away in London, United Kingdom [London, United Kingdom]

• 1633

  George Herbert – Herbert had always suffered from poor health and died of consumption in 1633 at the age of just 39. [Bemerton, Wiltshire, United Kingdom]

• 1817

  John Keats – Hunt took Keats to see the Elgin Marbles, prompting the poet to write two sonnets. [London, United Kingdom]

• 1900

  Basil Bunting – On the 1st of March 1900, Basil Bunting is born in Scotswood-on-Tyne, Northumberland [Scotswood-on-Tyne, Northumberland, United Kingdom]

• 1917

  Robert Lowell – Robert Lowell was born in 1917 in Boston to a Boston Brahmin family who could trace their descendents back to the Mayflower. [Boston, Massachusetts, United States]

• 1921

  Richard Wilbur – On the 1st of March 1921 Richard Wilbur is born in New York [New York, United States]

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