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Events on Saturday 28 January 1939 1
1865 – 1939W. B. Yeats (1865-1939)Died 28 January 1939, aged 73Yeats was an Irish poet and dramatist and a leading figure of the Irish Literary Revival. He co-founded the Abbey Theatre and won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1923. Many consider him the greatest English-language poet of the twentieth century.