Yakub Kolas

Yakub Kolas, real name Kanstantsin Mikhailovich Mitskievich was a Belarusian writer, dramatist, poet and translator. People's Poet of the Byelorussian SSR (1926), member (1928) and vice-president of the Belarusian Academy of Sciences.

3 November 1882

Born on the same birth day (3 November): Christian Picciolini • Davon Jefferson • Diego Alessi • Dwight Evans (baseball) • Elizabeth Smart • Michael Dukakis • Mike O'Neill (ice hockey) • Oodgeroo Noonuccal • Rainer Zobel • Teresa De Sio

Born in the same month (November 1882): Amelita Galli-Curci • Ernestas Galvanauskas • Felix Frankfurter • Frances Gertrude McGill • Gustaf VI Adolf • Henri Fabre • Jacques Maritain • Nikolai Janson • Wyndham Lewis