Gibran (Kahlil) is born in Besharri, Lebanon.

The son of Lebanese immigrants, Kahlil Gibran arrives in Boston in 1895, lives initially on Oxford Place, Tyler Street, and in the South End. He takes art lessons at Denison House, becomes a protégé of Fred Holland Day, studies art in Lebanon, and returns to Boston and holds his first exhibition of drawings in 1904.* Gibran studies in Paris, returns to Boston briefly in 1910, lives at 108 Mount Vernon Street, then moves to New York, where he publishes his best-selling book of poems, The Prophet, in 1923.* Gibran dies in New York on April 10, 1931 and his funeral is held in Boston on April 30, 1931.* His remains are initially buried at Forest Hills Cemetery, then disinterred and reburied in Lebanon.