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| An early Russian production of Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake |
Here are today's milestones:
Born on this day:
David Hume (1711; died August 25, 1776) Scottish philosopher who wrote
An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
Robert Browning (1812; died December 12, 1889) English poet; "Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came";
Fra Lippo Lippi; "Andrea Del Sarto"; "My Last Duchess"; "The Pied Piper of Hamelin"
Johannes Brahms (1833; died May 7, 1833) German composer; The "Lullaby";
Academic Festival Overture;
The Tragic Overture;
A German Requiem;
Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel;
The Paganini Variations;
Variations on a Theme by Haydn
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840; died November 6, 1893) Russian composer;
Swan Lake;
Eugene Onegin;
Marche Slave;
Capriccio Italien in A;
1812 Overture;
The Sleeping Beauty;
The Nutcracker
Rabindranath Tagore (1861; died August 7, 1941) Indian (Bengali) polymath;
Sadhana;
The Realization of Life;
Gitanjali;
Gora;
Ghare-Baire;
Rabindra Sangeet; Nobel Prize in Literature (1913)
Archibald MacLeish (1892; died April 20, 1982) American poet and writer; three Pulitzer Prizes:
Conquistador (for Poetry, 1933);
Collected Poems 1917–1952 (for Poetry, 1953);
J.B. (for Drama, 1959)
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala (1927; died April 3, 2013) German-born British and American novelist, short story writer, and screenwriter known for her novel
Heat and Dust, and adapting the screenplays from E. M. Forster's
Room with a View and
Howards End (winning Oscars for both)
Died on this day:
James George Frazer (1941; born January 1, 1854) Scottish anthropologist; mythology and comparative religion, especially
The Golden Bough
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