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Gene Wilder and Peter Boyle as Victor and his monster
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Here are today's milestones:
Born on this day:
Peter Paul Rubens (1577; died May 30, 1640) Flemish painter;
Samson and Delilah;
The Descent from the Cross;
The Assumption of the Virgin Mary;
The Rape of the Daughters of Leucippus;
Massacre of the Innocents;
Horror of War;
Susanna and the Elders;
The Three Graces; hundreds more
Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712; died July 2, 1778) Swiss ("Genevan") philosopher;
Émile, or Treatise on Education (includes "Profession of Faith of a Savoyard Vicar");
Confessions;
Social Contract;
A Discourse on the Origin of Inequality
Luigi Pirandello (1867; died December 10, 1936) Italian dramatist, novelist, poet and short story writer;
The Late Mattia Pascal;
Six Characters in Search of an Author;
Henry IV;
One, No One and One Hundred Thousand; Nobel Prize in Literature (1934)
Mel Brooks (1926) American filmmaker;
The Producers;
Blazing Saddles;
Young Frankenstein;
Silent Movie;
High Anxiety;
History of the World, Part I;
Robin Hood: Men in Tights
Died on this day:
Harry Leon Wilson (1939; born May 1, 1867) American novelist;
Merton of the Movies;
Ruggles of Red Gap
Ross Santee (1965; born August 16, 1888) American writer and illustrator;
Lost Pony Tracks;
Cowboy
Harlan Ellison (2018; born May 27, 1934) American author of science fiction;
A Boy and His Dog;
I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream;
"Repent, Harlequin!" Said the Ticktockman
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