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Poster for a 1908 production of
Giuseppe Verdi's Aida in Cleveland, Ohio |
Here are today's milestones:
Born on this day:
Giuseppe Verdi (1813; died January 27, 1901) Italian composer of
Aida;
Rigoletto;
Don Carlo;
Il Trovatore;
La Traviata;
Falstaff;
Macbeth
R.K. Narayan (1906; died May 13, 2001) Indian writer who wrote novels
Swami and Friends;
The English Teacher;
Waiting for the Mahatma;
The Guide;
The Man-Eater of Malgudi;
The Vendor of Sweets;
A Tiger for Malgudi; short story collections
Lawley Road;
A Horse and Two Goats and Other Stories;
Under the Banyan Tree and Other Stories;
The Grandmother’s Tale; versions of
The Ramayana and
The Mahabharata
Harold Pinter (1930; died December 24, 2008) English playwright who wrote
The Birthday Party;
The Homecoming;
Betrayal; Nobel Prize in Literature (2005)
Died on this day:
Orson Welles (1985; born May 6, 1915) American filmmaker who made
Citizen Kane;
The Magnificent Ambersons;
Macbeth;
Othello;
Touch of Evil; Academy Award (1941); Academy Honorary Award (1970)
Bonus Classic:
Attar of Nishapur (c. 1145-c. 1221) Persian poet and Sufi mystic;
Manṭiq-uṭ-Ṭayr (
The Conference of the Birds);
Tazkirat al-Awliya (
Biographies of the Saints)
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