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| Thomas Gainsborough's The Blue Boy (detail) |
Here are today's milestones:
Born on this day:
Thomas Gainsborough (1727; died August 2, 1788) English painter;
Mr. and Mrs. Andrews; The
Blue Boy;
The Watering Place;
Girl with Pigs
Died on this day:
August Strindberg (1912; born January 22, 1849) Swedish playwright, novelist, poet, essayist, and painter;
The Red Room;
The Father;
Miss Julie;
Inferno;
To Damascus;
A Dream Play;
The Ghost Sonata;
The Creditors
H. Rider Haggard (1925; born June 22, 1856) English adventure novelist;
King Solomon's Mines; the
Allan Quatermain Series;
She
Jean Rhys (1979; born August 24, 1890) Anglo-Dominican novelist, short story writer, essayist;
Wide Sargasso Sea;
Voyage in the Dark;
Good Morning, Midnight
Stanley Kunitz (2006; born July 29, 1905) American poet;
Selected Poems: 1928-1958;
Passing Through: The Later Poems; Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (1959); Poet Laureate of the USA (1974 and 2000)
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