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Thackeray's Vanity Fair was named for a scene in Bunyan's
Pilgrim's Progress, emphasizing the silliness of the characters' lives. |
Here are today's milestones:
Born on this day:
Gilbert White (1720; died June 26, 1793) English naturalist and cleric;
A Natural History and Antiquity of Selbourne
William Makepeace Thackeray (1811; died December 24, 1863) English novelist;
Catherine;
The Luck of Barry Lyndon;
Vanity Fair;
Pendennis;
The Newcomes;
The History of Henry Esmond
Clifford Odets (1906; died August 14, 1963) American playwright;
Waiting for Lefty;
Awake and Sing!;
Till the Day I Die;
Paradise Lost;
Golden Boy;
Rocket to the Moon
Thomas Kuhn (1922; died June 17, 1996) American physicist and philosopher of science;
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
Died on this day:
Caravaggio (1610; born September 29, 1571) Italian painter;
The Fortune Teller;
Amor Victorious;
St. Jerome Writing;
Supper at Emmaus;
The Beheading of St. John the Baptist
Jane Austen (1817; born December 16, 1775) English novelist;
Sense and Sensibility;
Pride and Prejudice;
Mansfield Park;
Emma;
Northanger Abbey;
Persuasion
Francisco Garces (1781; born April 12, 1738) Pioneering Spanish Franciscan missionary and explorer of Sonora and Baja California, Mexico, and Arizona and California, USA. Left a
Diary after being killed in an Indian uprising near present-day Yuma, Arizona.
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