Vladimír Holan

Vladimír Holan was a Czechoslovak poet famous for employing obscure language, dark topics and pessimistic views in his poems. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in the late 1960s.

16 September 1905

Born on the same birth day (16 September): Anna Louisa Geertruida Bosboom-Toussaint • Brian Sims • Burry Stander • David Copperfield (illusionist) • Eric Gross • Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke • Jack Churchill • Kyle Smith (motorcyclist) • Lady Gwen Thompson • Nadia Boulanger • Richard Slinger • Ross Greenberg • Salomón Rondón • Walt Becker

Born in the same month (September 1905): Conrad Heidkamp • Eino Tainio • Fidel LaBarba • Greta Garbo • Haakon Lie • Judith Auer • Killing of Linda Agostini • Leon Jaworski • Mary Renault • Maurice Challe • Max Schmeling • Michael Powell • Walter Zapp