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Here are today's milestones:
Born on this day:
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770; died November 14, 1831) German philosopher;
The Phenomenology of Mind; lectures
Theodore Dreiser (1871; died December 28, 1945) American novelist who wrote
Sister Carrie and
An American Tragedy
Miyazawa Kenji (1896; died September 21, 1933) Japanese poet and author of children's literature such as Ginga Tetsudo no Yoru (Night on the Galactic Railroad); Kaze no Matasaburo (Matasaburo of the Wind); Sero Hiki no Goshu (Gauche the Cellist)
Maruya Saiichi (1925; died October 13, 2012) Japanese novelist who also translated James Joyce;
Singular Rebellion;
Rain in the Wind: Four Stories;
A Mature Woman;
Grass for My Pillow
Died on this day:
Titian (1576; born Unknown Date, 1488 or 1490) Italian Renaissance painter called by contemporaries "The Sun Amidst Small Stars"; best-known works include
The Assumption of the Virgin;
The Rape of Europa;
Allegory of Prudence;
Sacred and Profane Love;
The Venus of Urbino
Lope de Vega (1635; born November 25, 1562) Spanish playwright, poet and novelist, esteemed second only to Cervantes;
Fuenteovejuna;
El Perro del Hortelano (
The Dog in the Manger);
Punishment Without Revenge
W. E. B. DuBois (1963; born February 23, 1868) American co-founder of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP); wrote
The Souls of Black Folk
Harvey Fergusson (1971; born January 28, 1890) American Southwest writer of the "Followers of the Sun" trilogy:
The Blood of the Conquerors;
In Those Days; and
Wolf Song
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