deaths
May 22, 1972
Cecil Day-Lewis, Anglo-Irish poet and author (born 1904)

Cecil Day-Lewis
Cecil Day-Lewis, often written as C. Day-Lewis, was an Anglo-Irish poet and Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom from 1968 until his death. He also wrote mystery stories under the pseudonym Nicholas Blake, most of which feature the fictional detective Nigel Strangeways.