Fernando Pessoa

Portuguese poet and philosopher, considered the greatest poet of his country of the 20th century. He also wrote in and translated from English and French. He used many noms de plume and curiously, even created horoscopes for his alter-egos Alberto Caeiro and Ricardo Reis. He gave the data of 16 April 1889, 1:45 PM LMT, Lisbon to Caeiro, writing as a Greco-Roman paganist, a poet of nature, and to Reis, the data of 19 September 1887, 4:05 PM LMT, Lisbon, writing as the poet of mind. A bright esoteric practitioner, he was indeed a skilled astrologer. He died at age 47 of cirrhosis on 30 November 1935 at 8:00 PM GMT in Lisbon, Portugal.