Poet and writer William Henry Davies was born in Newport, Wales. His father died when he was three years old, and after his mother's subsequent remarriage.
Jayne Anne Phillips' first book of stories, Black Tickets, published when she was 26, won the prestigious Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction from the.
Amalie Emmy Noether was a German mathematician who made many important contributions to abstract algebra. She proved Noether's first and second theorems.