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Cover of a 1956 release of a 1951 "full" recording
(two hours and nine minutes) of
George Gershwin's opera Porgy and Bess |
Here are today's milestones:
Born on this day:
Francis of Assisi (1182; died October 3, 1226) Italian friar and preacher;
Regula non bullata (
the Earlier Rule) and
Regula bullata (
the Later Rule);
Testament;
Admonitions; letters and prayers, including the "Canticum Fratris Solis" ("Canticle of Brother Sun")
Ivan Pavlov (1849; died February 27, 1936) Russian physiologist who wrote
Conditioned Reflexes;
Psychopathology and Psychiatry; Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1904)
T. S. Eliot (1888; died January 4, 1965) American-British poet, essayist, publisher, playwright, and critic best known for poems such as
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock;
The Waste Land; and
Four Quartets
J. Frank Dobie (1888; died September 18, 1964) American folklorist known for
Coronado's Children
Martin Heidegger (1889; died May 26, 1976) German philosopher who wrote
Being and Time
George Gershwin (1898; died July 11, 1937) American composer who wrote "Someone to Watch Over Me"; "I've Got a Crush on You"; "Embraceable You";
Porgy and Bess;
Rhapsody in Blue;
An American in Paris
Died on this day:
Gong Zizhen (1841; born August 22, 1792) Chinese poet;
Jihai Zashi (
Miscellaneous Poems in the Year of Ji Hai)
Lafcadio Hearn (1904; born June 27, 1850) In Japan:
Kwaidan;
Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan;
Kokoro;
Gleanings in Buddha-Fields;
In Ghostly Japan. New Orleans work includes:
Gombo Zhèbes: Little Dictionary of Creole Proverbs;
La Cuisine Créole;
Chita: A Memory of Last Island
William Strunk, Jr. (1946; born July 1, 1869) American educator and original author of
The Elements of Style
Hugh Lofting (1947; born January 14, 1886) British author who wrote The Story of Doctor Dolittle and its sequels;
The Story of Mrs Tubbs and Tommy, Tilly, and Mrs. Tubbs;
Porridge Poetry;
Noisy Nora;
The Twilight of Magic; and
Victory for the Slain (for adults)
George Santayana (1952; born December 16, 1863) Spanish-American philosopher, essayist, poet, and novelist who wrote
The Sense of Beauty;
The Life of Reason;
Scepticism and Animal Faith;
The Realms of Being;
The Last Puritan
C. H. Waddington (1975; born November 8, 1905) British biologist and philosopher who wrote
The Scientific Attitude
Bonus Classic:
Thucydides (c. 460-c. 400 BCE) Greek historian who wrote
The History of the Peloponnesian War
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