Birth Date Cake O'Clock Birth Date Clock

W. B. Yeats

W. B. Yeats
W. B. Yeats, Irish poet and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1939)

William Butler Yeats was an Irish poet, dramatist and writer, and one of the foremost figures of 20th-century literature. He was a driving force behind the Irish Literary Revival, and along with Lady Gregory founded the Abbey Theatre, serving as its chief during its early years. He was awarded the 1923 Nobel Prize in Literature, and later served two terms as a Senator of the Irish Free State.

13 June 1865

Random

Born on the same birth date (13 June 1865): Karl Blossfeldt

Born on the same birth day (13 June): Basil Rathbone • Bruno de Finetti • Charalambos Tseroulis • Charles Algernon Parsons • Chris Cairns • Florent Malouda • Frederic Franklin • Jaan Pehk • James McCann (baseball) • José Bonifácio de Andrada e Silva • Krzysztof Bosak • Lucjan Brychczy • Marv Tarplin • Mary Wickes • Miguel Pate • Måns Zelmerlöw • Naoki Hattori • Percy Rodriguez • Ron Areshenkoff • Thomas N. Heffron • Uriel Jones • Winfield Scott • Yitzhak Pundak

Born in the same month (June 1865): Adelaide Casely-Hayford • Albéric Magnard • Bernard Berenson • Carl Nielsen • Frederick Cook • George Lohmann • George Redmayne Murray • George V • John Monash • Karl Blossfeldt • May Whitty • Robert Henri • Susan La Flesche Picotte