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Bela Lugosi as the first film Dracula (1931)
authorized by Bram Stoker's estate |
Here are today's milestones:
Born on this day:
Bram Stoker (1847; died April 20, 1912) Irish author;
Dracula
C. H. Waddington (1905; died September 26, 1975) British biologist and philosopher who wrote
The Scientific Attitude
Dorothy Day (1897; died November 29, 1980) American journalist and activist; autobiography
The Long Loneliness
Julian of Norwich (1342; died Unknown Date, 1416) English mystic;
Revelations of Divine Love
Died on this day:
Francis Parkman (1893; born September 16, 1823) American historian known for
The Oregon Trail: Sketches of Prairie and Rocky-Mountain Life;
France and England in North America
George Wharton James (1923; born September 27, 1858) Anglo-American author who wrote
The Wonders of the Colorado Desert;
Through Ramona's Country;
In and Out of the Old Missions of California;
The Lake of the Sky
Ivan Bunin (1953; born October 22, 1870) Russian writer;
The Village;
The Life of Arseniev;
Cursed Days; Nobel Prize in Literature (1933)
John Milton (1674; born December 9, 1608) English poet and man of letters;
Paradise Lost;
Tractate on Education;
Areopagitica; and minor poems in English (including "Lycidas" and "On the Morning of Christ's Nativity; Sonnets")
Norman Rockwell (1978; born February 3, 1894) American painter and illustrator;
Willie Gillis series;
Rosie the Riveter;
Four Freedoms series;
The Problem We All Live With; especially known as a cover illustrator for the
Saturday Evening Post
Bonus Classic:
Plutarch (c. 46-127) Greek biographer; in the Roman era;
The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans
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