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"Trapper John" McIntyre (Elliott Gould) and "Hawkeye" Pierce
(Donald Sutherland) as "the pros from Dover" in Robert Altman's
1970 film version of Richard Hooker's novel MASH |
Here are today's milestones:
Born on this day:
Nadine Gordimer (1923; died July 13, 2014) South African writer;
The Conservationist;
Burger's Daughter;
July's People; Nobel Prize in Literature, (1991)
Don DeLillo (1936) American novelist, playwright and essayist;
White Noise;
Libra;
Mao II;
Underworld;
Cosmopolis
Died on this day:
Leo Tolstoy (1910; born September 9, 1828) Russian writer known for
War and Peace;
Anna Karenina;
A Confession;
The Death of Ivan Ilyich
Robert Altman (2006; born February 20, 1925) American filmmaker;
MASH;
Nashville;
The Player;
Short Cuts;
Gosford Park
Bonus Classic:
Wang Wei (699-761) Chinese poet; collaborated with another poet on the
Wangchuan ji (
Wang River Collection) and other poems; twenty-nine of his poems are included in the 18th-century anthology
Three Hundred Tang Poems.
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