William Wordsworth

William Wordsworth was an English Romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped to launch the Romantic Age in English literature with their joint publication Lyrical Ballads (1798).

7 April 1770

Born on the same birth day (7 April): April 7 • Cornelia Frances • François de Neufville, 2nd Duke of Villeroy • Hans van Hemert • Hindrek Kesler • Margarete Schön • Nickel Ashmeade • Pascal Olmeta • Ronde Barber • Suzann Pettersen • Tobias Stimmer • Walter Camp • Wayne Rogers • Werner Schroeter • William Ellery Channing

Born in the same month (April 1770): David Thompson (explorer) • Georg Sverdrup • George Canning • John Thomas Campbell • Theodoros Kolokotronis • Thomas Johann Seebeck