Roger McGough
Roger Joseph McGough is an English poet, performance poet, broadcaster, children's author and playwright. He presents the BBC Radio 4 programme Poetry Please, as well as performing his own poetry. McGough was one of the leading members of the Liverpool poets, a group of young poets influenced by Beat poetry and the popular music and culture of 1960s Liverpool. He is an honorary fellow of Liverpool John Moores University, a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and President of the Poetry Society.
9 November 1937
Born on the same birth date (9 November 1937): Clyde Wells (politician) • Donald Trelford
Born on the same birth day (9 November): A. P. Hill • Ahn Chang Ho • Albrecht III Achilles • Benny Mardones • Ed Corney • Eva Todor • Giles Gilbert Scott • Jane Humphries • Jill Dando • Johannes Narssius • Kane Waselenchuk • Mae Marsh • Martha Settle Putney • Michel Pagliaro • Pierrette Alarie • Robert Frank • Schutzstaffel • Thomas Quasthoff • Tom Fogerty • Viktor Chukarin
Born in the same month (November 1937): Alicia Ostriker • Bob Babbitt • Chief Justice of Singapore • Dietrich Möller • Frank Ifield • Loretta Swit • Marlo Thomas • Mary Daheim • Praveen Chaudhari • Stephen Lewis • Viktoriya Tokareva