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Here are today's milestones:
Born on this day:
Joseph Conrad (1857; died August 3, 1924) Polish-British novelist;
The Nigger of the "Narcissus";
Heart of Darkness;
Lord Jim;
Typhoon;
Nostromo;
The Secret Agent;
Under Western Eyes
Nagai Kafu (1879; died April 30, 1959) Japanese novelist, short-story writer, playwright, essayist, and diarist;
Ude Kurabe (
Geisha in Rivalry);
Amerika Monogatari (
American Stories);
Sumidagawa (Sumida River);
Bokuto Kidan (
A Strange Tale from East of the River);
films
The Strange Story of Oyuki;
Bungō: Sasayaka na yokubō;
Yume no onna (
Yearning)
Taneda Santoka (1882; died October 11, 1940) Japanese poet;
Somokuto (
Grass and Tree Cairn);
For All My Walking
Died on this day:
Robert Louis Stevenson (1894; born November 13, 1850) Scottish novelist, poet, essayist, and travel writer;
Treasure Island;
A Child's Garden of Verses;
Kidnapped;
Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
Auguste Renoir (1919; born February 25, 1841) French painter;
The Luncheon of the Boating Party;
Dance in the Country
Lewis Thomas (1993; born November 25, 1913) American physician and essayist;
The Lives of a Cell;
The Medusa and the Snail;
Late Night Thoughts on Listening to Mahler's Ninth Symphony
Gwendolyn Brooks (2000; born June 7, 1917) American poet;
A Street in Bronzeville;
Annie Allen;
Winnie; Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (1950)
Bonus Classic:
Popol Vuh (between 1554 and 1558) Mayan mythological text
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