Vernon Watkins

Vernon Phillips Watkins was a Welsh poet and translator. He was a close friend of fellow poet Dylan Thomas, who described him as "the most profound and greatly accomplished Welshman writing poems in English".

27 June 1906

Born on the same birth day (27 June): Abbath • Ahn So-hee • Charlie Macartney • Christian Kane • Dawud Wharnsby • Hana Birnerová • Johnny Benson Jr. • Kate Carew • Louise von François • Martin Bourboulon • May Irwin • Philip Guston

Born in the same month (June 1906): Alan Fairfax • Alberto Rabagliati • Anne Morrow Lindbergh • Bob King (athlete) • Bruno de Finetti • Glen Gray • Grete Sultan • Heinz Harmel • Ivan Chernyakhovsky • Knut Kroon • Léon Degrelle • Max August Zorn • Pierre Fournier • R. G. D. Allen • Robert Klark Graham • Tribhuvan of Nepal • Viktor Schreckengost • Walter Rauff • Walter Robins • Willard Maas • William Kneale • William Reid (mining engineer)