Thomas Hardy

Thomas Hardy was an English novelist and poet. A Victorian realist in the tradition of George Eliot, he was influenced both in his novels and in his poetry by Romanticism, including the poetry of William Wordsworth. He was highly critical of much in Victorian society, especially on the declining status of rural people in Britain such as those from his native South West England.

2 June 1840

Born on the same birth date (2 June 1840): Émile Munier

Born on the same birth day (2 June): Alexandru Nicolschi • Bonnie Newman • Campbell Graham • Candace Gingrich • Daniel Pollen • Dorothy West • Elsie Tu • Gilbert Baker (artist) • Gédéon Ouimet • Heinz Sielmann • Johnny Carter (singer) • Mani Ratnam • Maryka Holtzhausen • Paulo Sérgio • Raúl Ibañez • Rutger von Ascheberg • Tony Hadley • Wentworth Miller

Born in the same month (June 1840): Augusta Lundin • Charlotte of Belgium • Ernst Otto Schlick • Georg Karl Maria Seidlitz • Theodor Philipsen • William F. Nast • Émile Munier