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The Classic Comics cover of James Fenimore
Cooper's The Last of the Mohicans |
Here are today's milestones:
Born on this day:
François de La Rochefoucauld (1613; died March 17, 1680) French essayist known for
Memoirs;
Maximes
Agatha Christie (1890; died January 12, 1976) English crime novelist, short story writer, and playwright known for Characters Hercule Poirot and Miss (Jane) Marple; novels
Murder on the Orient Express;
Death on the Nile;
The ABC Murders;
And Then There Were None; short story collection
Partners in Crime; play
The Mousetrap
Jean Renoir (1894; died February 12, 1979) French filmmaker known for
La Grande Illusion;
The Rules of the Game
Oliver Stone (1946 - ) American filmmaker known for
Scarface;
Platoon;
Born on the Fourth of July;
Salvador;
Wall Street;
The Doors;
JFK;
Nixon
Died on this day:
Thomas Wolfe (1938; born October 3, 1900) American novelist known for
Look Homeward, Angel;
Of Time and the River;
You Can't Go Home Again;
The Web and the Rock
Robert Penn Warren (1989; born April 24, 1905) American novelist and poet known for
All the King's Men (Pulitzer Prize for the Novel, 1946; also, Best Picture Oscar, 1949); Pulitzer Prizes for Poetry (1958, 1979); Poet Laureate of the US (1944-1945)
Born AND Died on this day (!)
James Fenimore Cooper (born 1789; died 1851) American author known for the five "Leatherstocking Tales," especially
The Deerslayer;
The Last of the Mohicans;
and The Pathfinder
Bonus Classic:
Tao Yuanming (365-427) Chinese poet of the Six Dynasties period, known for "field and garden" poetry (about domesticated nature). Also wrote the
Tao Hua Yuan (
Peach Blossom Spring) fable about a sort of utopia.
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