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): Jack O'Connor (catcher) • Joanna Gleason • Matt Serra • Morena Baccarin • Pete Conrad

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