"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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