Desanka Maksimović

Desanka Maksimović was a Serbian poet, writer and translator. Her first works were published in the literary journal Misao in 1920, while she was studying at the University of Belgrade. Within a few years, her poems appeared in the Serbian Literary Herald, Belgrade's most influential literary publication. In 1925, Maksimović earned a French Government scholarship for a year's study at the University of Paris. Upon her return, she was appointed a professor at Belgrade's elite First High School for Girls, a position she would hold continuously until World War II.

16 May 1898

Born on the same birth date (16 May 1898): Kenji Mizoguchi • Tamara de Lempicka

Born on the same birth day (16 May): Aleksandr Laktionov (painter) • Café (footballer) • Edith Grace White • Jesús Castillo (Mexican footballer) • Margaret Sullavan • Nuria Llagostera Vives • Pierre Cuypers • Ray Condo • Ricardo Costa (footballer, born 1981) • Rick Rypien • Tanel Tammet

Born in the same month (May 1898): A. J. Casson • Alfred Schmidt (weightlifter) • Ariel Durant • Arletty • Armand Hammer • Bennett Cerf • Carl Johnson (athlete) • Charles-Léon Hammes • Christfried Burmeister • David Crosthwait • Eduard Ole • Elsie Eaves • Ernst Bacon • Faruk Nafiz Çamlıbel • Golda Meir • John Gilroy (artist) • Josef Terboven • Julius Evola • Kenji Mizoguchi • Konrad Henlein • Norman Vincent Peale • Scott O'Dell • Septima Poinsette Clark • Tamara de Lempicka