Ernest Dowson

Ernest Christopher Dowson was an English poet, novelist, and short-story writer who is often associated with the Decadent movement.

2 August 1867

Born on the same birth day (2 August): Adolf Friedrich von Schack • Anthony Seldon • Beko Ransome-Kuti • Benjamin Barber • Dennis Prager • Fernando Couto • François Weyergans • Helen Morgan (singer) • Håkon Stenstadvold • Ioannis Varvitsiotis • James Street (American football) • Joanna Cassidy • Mikołaj Krzysztof "the Orphan" Radziwiłł • Prafulla Chandra Ray • Ruth Nelson (actress) • Tim Murtagh • Uğur Tütüneker • Xavier Thaninayagam

Born in the same month (August 1867): Charles Francis Jenkins • Cupid Childs • Edgar de Wahl • Emil Nolde • George Luks • James W. Gerard • John Galsworthy • Maximilian Bircher-Benner • Stanley Baldwin • Umberto Giordano