Classics Calendar for December 16
Here are today's milestones:
Born on this day:
Jane Austen (1775; died July 18, 1817) English novelist; Sense and Sensibility; Pride and Prejudice; Mansfield Park; Emma; Northanger Abbey; Persuasion
Francis Thompson (1859; died November 13, 1907) English poet; "The Hound of Heaven"
George Santayana (1863; died September 26, 1952) Spanish-American philosopher, essayist, poet, and novelist who wrote The Sense of Beauty; The Life of Reason; Scepticism and Animal Faith; The Realms of Being; The Last Puritan
Margaret Mead (1901; died November 15, 1978) American cultural anthropologist; Coming of Age in Samoa; Sex and Temperament in Three Primitive Societies
Noel Coward (1899; died March 26, 1973) English playwright; Hay Fever; Private Lives; Design for Living; Present Laughter; Blithe Spirit; Academy Honorary Award (1943)
Arthur C. Clarke (1917; died March 19, 2008) British author of science fiction; 2001: A Space Odyssey; Profiles of the Future; Rendezvous with Rama; The Fountains of Paradise
Philip K. Dick (1928; died March 2, 1982) American author of science fiction; Ubik; Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?; The Man in the High Castle; A Scanner Darkly; Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said; the VALIS trilogy (VALIS; The Divine Invasion; The Transmigration of Timothy Archer); "Second Variety"
Died on this day:
Wilhelm Grimm (1859; born February 24, 1786) German folklorist; Kinder-und Hausmärchen (Children's and Household Tales, with brother Jacob)
Alphonse Daudet (1897; born May 13, 1840) French novelist, short story writer, playwright, and poet best known for short stories, including those in Letters From My Windmill; the boffo novel Fromont Junior and Risler Senior; and the Tarscon novels, including Tartarin of Tarascon
Camille Saint-Saens (1921; born October 9, 1835) French composer of The Carnival of Animals; Danse Macabre; Samson and Delilah
W. Somerset Maugham (1965; born January 25, 1874) British playwright, novelist and short story writer; Of Human Bondage; The Moon and Sixpence; Cakes and Ale; The Razor's Edge
Bonus Classic:
The Maha Puranas (Great Puranas) (3rd-10th centuries) Indian holy books; 18 texts, attributed to Vyasa (c. 200 BCE)
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