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Here are today's milestones:
Born on this day:
Martial (40; died between 102 and 104) Roman poet who wrote
Epigrams
Botticelli (1445; died May 17, 1510) Italian painter;
Birth of Venus;
Adoration of the Magi;
Guiliano de'Medici
Frederic Chopin (1810; died October 17, 1849) Polish composer; mazurkas, waltzes, etudes, polonaises, sonatas; and perhaps especially, his nocturnes for piano
Charles Fletcher Lummis (1829; died November 24, 1928) American journalist, historian, ethnographer, archaeologist, poet, librarian, and museum founder;
Land of Sunshine (magazine, later called
Out West);
Some Strange Corners of Our Country;
The Spanish Pioneers and the California Missions;
Flowers Of Our Lost Romance;
A Tramp Across the Continent;
The Land of Poco Tiempo
William Dean Howells (1837; died May 11, 1920) American novelist, short story writer, playwright, and critic; short story "Christmas Every Day"; novels
The Rise of Silas Lapham and
A Traveler from Altruria
Akutagawa Ryunosuke (1892; died July 24, 1927) Japanese short story writer; "RashÅmon"; "In a Grove"; "The Nose"; "Hell Screen"; "The Spider's Thread"; "Dragon: the Old Potter's Tale"; "Autumn Mountain"
Ralph Ellison (1914; died April 16, 1994) American novelist and essayist;
Invisible Man
Robert Lowell (1917; died September 12, 1977) American poet known for
Lord Weary's Castle;
Life Studies;
For the Union Dead
Richard Wilbur (1921; died October 14, 2017) American poet;
Things of This World; Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (1957, 1989); Poet Laureate of the USA (1996)
Robert Hass (1941) American poet;
Time and Materials: Poems 1997-2005; Poet Laureate of the United States (1995-1997); Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (2008)
Died on this day:
Thomas Campion (1620; born February 12, 1567) English poet and composer; numerous "ayres" (art songs)
George Herbert (1633; born April 3, 1593) Welsh poet and Anglican priest;
The Temple: Sacred Poems and Private Ejaculations;
A Priest to the Temple (also called
The Country Parson)
Arthur Koestler (1983; born September 5, 1905) Hungarian-British author best known for his novel
Darkness at Noon
Bonus Classic:
Li Ruzhen (c. 1763-1830) Chinese novelist;
Jing Hua Yuan (
Flowers in the Mirror)
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