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Scene from the 1944 first performance of
Jean-Paul Sartre's Huis Clos (No Exit) |
Here are today's milestones:
Born on this day:
Reinhold Niebuhr (1892; died June 1, 1971) American theologian;
Moral Man and Immoral Society;
The Nature and Destiny of Man
Jean-Paul Sartre (1905; died April 15, 1980) French philosopher, playwright, novelist, and critic;
Nausea;
Huis Clos (
No Exit);
L'Être et le Néant (
Being and Nothingness);
L'existentialisme est un humanisme (
Existentialism is a Humanism)
Died on this day:
Niccolo Machiavelli (1527; born May 3, 1469) Italian philosopher;
Il Principe (
The Prince);
Discorsi sopra la prima deca di Tito Livio (
Discourses on Livy)
John Skelton (1529; born Unknown Date, 1460) English poet; numerous short works, often satirical
John Smith (1631; born January 1580) English soldier, explorer, and settler of Jamestown; wrote
The Generall Historie of Virginia, New-England, and the Summer Isles
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1908; born March 18, 1844) Russian composer;
Capriccio Espagnol;
Scheherazade; "Flight of the Bumblebee"
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