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From a film version of Harry Leon Wilson's Ruggles
of Red Gap, about a British butler in the Old West |
Here are today's milestones:
Born on this day:
Joseph Addison (1672; died June 17, 1719) English writer; with Richard Steele, published
The Tatler and
The Spectator
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1881; died April 10, 1955) French philosopher and Jesuit priest;
The Phenomenon of Man;
The Divine Milieu;
The Future of Man;
letters and essays
Harry Leon Wilson (1867; died June 28, 1939) American novelist;
Merton of the Movies;
Ruggles of Red Gap
Kita Morio (1927; died October 24, 2011) Japanese novelist who wrote
The House of Nire;
Ghosts;
The Adventures of Kupukupu the Sailor; story "In the Corner of Night and Fog"
Died on this day:
Antonin Dvorak (1904; born September 8, 1841) Czech composer known for
the New World Symphony;
Slavonic Dance No. 2
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