Overview of the events of 1856 in poetry
Overview of the events of 1856 in poetry
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Births
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- January 9 – Lizette Woodworth Reese (died 1935), American
- January 22 – A. D. Godley (died 1925), Irish-born English classical scholar and writer of light verse
- March 4 – Toru Dutt (died 1877), Indian, writing in Sanskrit, French and English
- April 7 – Mohammed Abdullah Hassan (died 1920), poet and emir of Diiriye Guure[7]
- August 20 – Jakub Bart-Ćišinski (died 1909), Sorbian poet, writer, playwright and translator
- Date not known – Kattakkayathil Cherian Mappila (died 1936), Indian, Malayalam-language poet[8]
Deaths
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