Self-Portrait with Monkey by Frida Kahlo |
Here are today's milestones:
Born on this day:
John Clare (1793; died May 20, 1864) English poet; Poems Descriptive of Rural Life and Scenery; The Village Minstrel, and Other Poems
Isaac Babel (1894; died January 27, 1940) Russian journalist, playwright, and short story writer; Red Cavalry; Story of My Dovecote; Tales of Odessa
Died on this day:
Frida Kahlo (1954; born July 6, 1907) Mexican painter; Self-Portrait with Monkey
A. K. Ramanujan (1993; born March 16, 1929) Indian poet and critic who wrote the controversial essay "Three Hundred Ramayanas: Five Examples and Three Thoughts on Translation"; remembered for Collected Poems
Nadine Gordimer (2014; born November 20, 1923) South African writer; The Conservationist; Burger's Daughter; July's People; Nobel Prize in Literature, (1991)
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