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| Vincent van Gogh's The Starry Night |
Here are today's milestones:
Born on this day:
Alexis de Tocqueville (1805; died April 16, 1859) French historian;
Democracy in America
Booth Tarkington (1869; died May 19, 1946) American novelist and dramatist;
The Magnificent Ambersons;
Alice Adams;
Seventeen
Stanley Kunitz (1905; died May 14, 2006) American poet;
Selected Poems: 1928-1958;
Passing Through: The Later Poems; Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (1959); Poet Laureate of the USA (1974 and 2000)
Died on this day:
Tang Xianzu (1616; born September 24, 1550) Chinese playwright of the Ming Dynasty who wrote
Mudan Ting (
The Peony Pavilion), one of the "Four Great Classical Dramas"
Robert Schumann (1856; born June 8, 1810) German composer;
Carnaval;
Symphonic Studies;
Kinderszenen;
Kreisleriana; the
Fantasie in C
Vincent van Gogh (1890; born March 30, 1853) Dutch painter;
The Starry Night;
L'Arlesienne;
Bedroom at Aries;
Self-Portrait
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