Yeats, William

1. Entity type Person
2. Birth date 13 June 1865
3. Death date 28 January 1939
4. Birth place Sandymount, Ireland
5. Death place Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, France
6. Gender Name Male
7. Note Public Irish poet. One of the greatest English-language poets and a major figure of the 20th century in literature. In 1923, he received the Nobel Prize for Literature.