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An illustration for Robert Louis
Stevenson's Treasure Island by N.C. Wyeth |
Here are today's milestones:
Born on this day:
Augustine (354; died August 28, 430) Roman Christian theologian and Church Father;
Confessions of St. Augustine;
City of God
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850; died December 3, 1894) Scottish novelist, poet, essayist, and travel writer;
Treasure Island;
A Child's Garden of Verses;
Kidnapped;
Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
Died on this day:
Arthur Hugh Clough (1861; born January 1, 1819) English poet; the short poems "Say Not the Struggle Naught Availeth"; "Through a Glass Darkly"; and "The Latest Decalogue"
Gioacchino Rossini (1868; born February 29, 1792) Italian composer;
Il barbiere di Siviglia (
The Barber of Seville);
La Cenerentola (
Cinderella);
Guillaume Tell (
William Tell);
Otello (
Othello)
Camille Pissarro (1903; born July 10, 1830) Danish-French painter;
Boulevard Montmartre cityscape series;
Boulevard des Italians, Morning, Sunlight;
Bather in the Woods
Francis Thompson (1907; born December 16, 1859) English poet; "The Hound of Heaven"
Bonus Classic:
Petronius (c. 27-66) Roman satirical novelist:
The Satyricon
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