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Illustration from the first edition of
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Here are today's milestones:
Born on this day:
Izaak Walton (1593; died December 15, 1683) English writer;
The Compleat Angler;
Walton's Lives
John Dryden (1631; died May 12, 1700) English poet and playwright; Poems
Absalom and Achitophel,
Mac Flecknoe,
The Hind and the Panther; plays
Marriage à la mode and
All for Love
P. L. Travers (1899; died April 23, 1996) Australian-born British novelist and children's writer; the "Mary Poppins" series; spiritual writings
Philip Larkin (1922; died December 2, 1985) English poet and novelist;
The Whitsun Weddings;
High Windows
Died on this day:
Hieronymus Bosch (1516; born Unknown Date, c. 1450) Dutch painter;
The Garden of Earthly Delights;
The Temptation of St. Anthony;
The Adoration of the Magi
Frederick Marryat (1848; born July 10, 1792) British novelist and naval officer;
Mr. Midshipman Easy;
The Children of the New Forest;
The Phantom Ship
Ruggero Leoncavallo (1919; born April 23, 1857) Italian composer;
Pagliacci
Lincoln Steffens (1936; born April 6, 1866) American writer;
The Shame of the Cities;
Boy on Horseback (part of his
Autobiography)
Tobias Dantzig (1956; born February 19, 1884) Latvian-American mathematician;
Number: The Language of Science;
Aspects of Science;
Mathematics in Ancient Greece
Hermann Hesse (1962; born July 2, 1877) German-born Swiss poet and novelist;
Steppenwolf;
Siddhartha;
The Glass Bead Game; Nobel Prize in Literature (1946)
Dmitri Shostakovich (1975; born September 25, 1906) Russian composer best known for Symphonies number 5, 7 and 10
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