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Relative newcomer Arnold Schwarzenegger
made his mark in his 1982 film portrayal of
Robert E. Howard's Conan the Barbarian |
Here are today's milestones:
Born on this day:
Francis Bacon (1561; died April 9, 1626) English scientist and philosopher;
New Atlantis;
Essays, or Counsels, Civil and Moral;
Novum Organum (
New Scientific Method)
John Donne (1572; died March 31, 1631) English poet and cleric; erotic poems and religious meditations
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1729; died February 15, 1781) German writer, philosopher, dramatist, and art critic who wrote
Laocoön and
Nathan the Wise
George Gordon, Lord Byron (1788; died April 19, 1824) English poet;
Don Juan;
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage; "She Walks in Beauty"
August Strindberg (1849; died May 14, 1912) Swedish playwright, novelist, poet, essayist, and painter;
The Red Room;
The Father;
Miss Julie;
Inferno;
To Damascus;
A Dream Play;
The Ghost Sonata;
The Creditors
D. W. Griffith (1875; died July 23, 1948) American filmmaker;
The Birth of a Nation;
Intolerance
Robert E. Howard (1906; died June 11, 1936) American author of fantasy;
Conan the Barbarian (series);
Solomon Kane (series);
The Hour of the Dragon; "Worms of the Earth"; "Pigeons from Hell"
Philippa Pearce (1920; died December 21, 2006) English author of children's books;
Tom's Midnight Garden;
The Squirrel Wife;
The Battle of Bubble and Squeak
Died on this day:
Abe Kobo (1993; born March 7, 1924) Japanese writer;
Suna no Onna (
The Woman in the Dunes)
Ursula K. LeGuin (2018; born October 21, 1929) American author of novels, children's books, and short stories, mainly fantasy and science fiction who wrote the
Earthsea series;
The Hainish Cycle;
The Lathe of Heaven
Bonus Classic:
Han Shan (c. 712-after 793, but very uncertain)) semi-legendary Chinese monk/poet whose friendship with another Chinese monk/poet, Shide, is also the stuff of legend; wrote biographical, religious, and transcendental poems
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