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Here are today's milestones:
Born on this day:
Michelangelo (1475; died February 18, 1564) Italian sculptor, painter, architect, poet;
Pietà;
David;
The Last Judgment; Sistine Chapel ceiling; erotic poetry
Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806; died June 29, 1861) English poet;
Sonnets from the Portuguese;
Aurora Leigh
Ooka Shohei (1909; died December 25, 1988) Japanese novelist;
Nobi (
Fires on the Plain)
Gabriel Garcia Marquez (1927; died April 17, 2014) Colombian novelist, short-story writer, and journalist;
One Hundred Years of Solitude;
The Autumn of the Patriarch;
Love in the Time of Cholera;
Chronicle of a Death Foretold; Nobel Prize in Literature (1982)
Died on this day:
Artemus Ward (1867; born April 26, 1834) American humorist; numerous short humorous pieces
Louisa May Alcott (1888; born November 29, 1832) American novelist and poet;
Little Women;
Little Men;
Jo's Boys
John Philip Sousa (1932; born November 6, 1854) American composer; "The Stars and Stripes Forever"; "Semper Fidelis"; "The Liberty Bell"; "The Thunderer"; "The Washington Post"
Rudolf Otto (1937; born September 25, 1869) German theologian and religious scholar whose best-known work was
The Idea of the Holy
Pearl S. Buck (1973; born June 26, 1892) American writer and novelist who grew up in China;
The House of Earth series: The Good Earth;
Sons;
A House Divided;
China Sky;
Peony;
The Big Wave;
Pulitzer Prize (1932); Nobel Prize in Literature (1938)
Ayn Rand (1982; born February 2, 1905) Russian-American novelist, philosopher, and playwright;
The Fountainhead;
Atlas Shrugged
Georgia O'Keeffe (1986; born November 15, 1887) American artist; inspired by flowers and plants:
Petunia No. 2;
Black Iris;
Oriental Poppies;
Jimson Weed, White Flower No. 1;
Blue and Green Music; New York cityscapes:
City Night;
Shelton Hotel, New York No. 1;
Radiator Bldg--Night, New York; New Mexico:
Black Cross, New Mexico;
Cow's Skull: Red, White and Blue;
Ram's Head, White Hollyhock-Hills;
Summer Days
Bonus Classic:
Liu Kezhuang (1187–1269) Chinese poet; edited
Poems by a Thousand Masters
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