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A monolith in Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey, the film
that popularized Also Sprach Zarathustra by Richard Strauss |
Here are today's milestones:
Born on this day:
Ben Jonson (1572; died August 6, 1637) English playwright and poet;
Volpone;
The Alchemist
Richard Strauss (1864; died September 8, 1949) German composer known for operas
Der Rosenkavalier;
Elektra; and
Salome; tone poems
Don Juan;
Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks; and
Also Sprach Zarathustra
A. L. Kroeber (1876; died October 5, 1960) American cultural anthropologist;
Handbook of the Indians of California
Kawabata Yasunari (1899; died April 16, 1972) Japanese novelist and short story writer; novels
The Scarlet Gang of Asakusa;
Snow Country;
The Master of Go;
Thousand Cranes;
The Old Capital;
The Sound of the Mountain;
Beauty and Sadness; short-stories "The Dancing Girl of Izu";
Palm-of-the-Hand Stories;
Nobel Prize in Literature (1968)
William Styron (1925; died November 1, 2006) American novelist and essayist;
The Confessions of Nat Turner;
Sophie's Choice
Died on this day:
Robert E. Howard (1936; born January 22, 1906) American author of fantasy;
Conan the Barbarian (series);
Solomon Kane (series);
The Hour of the Dragon; "Worms of the Earth"; "Pigeons from Hell"
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