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| Marc Chagall's The Circus Horse |
Here are today's milestones:
Born on this day:
Marc Chagall (1887; died March 28, 1985) Russian-French artist;
I and the Village;
Adam and Eve;
The Fiddler;
Bouquet with Flying Lovers;
Bella with White Collar;
The Circus Horse;
The Father
Frida Kahlo (1907; died July 13, 1954) Mexican painter;
Self-Portrait with Monkey
Died on this day:
Ludovico Ariosto (1533; born September 8, 1474) Italian poet known for
Orlando Furioso
Thomas More (1535; born February 7, 1478) English author and statesman;
Utopia;
History of King Richard III
Guy de Maupassant (1893; born August 5, 1850) French short story writer, novelist, and poet; "Boule de Suif"; "The Necklace"; "The Piece of String"; "Two Friends"
Kenneth Grahame (1932; born March 8, 1859) British writer;
The Wind in the Willows;
The Reluctant Dragon
William Faulkner (1962; born September 25, 1897) American novelist, short story writer, playwright, poet, and essayist whose novels include
The Sound and the Fury;
As I Lay Dying;
Light in August;
Absalom, Absalom!;
A Rose for Emily; Nobel Prize in Literature (1949); two Pulitzer Prizes for Fiction (1955, 1963)
Louis Armstrong (1971; born August 4, 1901) American performer; trumpet, singer ("scat" vocals); "When The Saints Go Marching In"; "Ain't Misbehavin'"; "Stompin' at the Savoy"; "Hello, Dolly!"; "What a Wonderful World"; Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award (1972)
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