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Here are today's milestones:
Born on this day:
Charles Wesley (1707; died March 29, 1788) English leader of the Methodist movement; hymns
Saki (1870; died November 14, 1916) British short story writer; also playwright, and novelist; "The Storyteller"; "The Open Window"; "The East Wing";
The Westminster Alice;
The Chronicles of Clovis
Christopher Fry (1907; died June 30, 2005) English poet and playwright; best-known for
The Lady's Not for Burning
Steven Spielberg (1946) American filmmaker;
Jaws;
Close Encounters of the Third Kind;
Raiders of the Lost Ark;
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial;
The Color Purple;
Empire of the Sun;
Schindler's List;
Amistad;
Saving Private Ryan;
Munich;
Lincoln;
Jurassic Park; Academy Award
Died on this day:
Theodosius Dobzhansky (1975; born January 24, 1900) Russian-American evolutionary biologist who contributed to the "modern synthesis" of Darwin's theory with Gregor Mendel's ideas on heredity; wrote
Genetics and the Origin of Species; article "Nothing in Biology Makes Sense except in the Light of Evolution"
Vaclav Havel (2011; born October 5, 1936) Czech writer, philosopher, political dissident, and statesman who wrote
The Garden Party and
The Memorandum
Bonus Classic:
Sriharsha (12th century) Indian poet who wrote
Naishadha-carita (
About Nala and Damayanti), one of the (five or six)
Mahakavya
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