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| Detail of Goya's painting Saturn Devouring His Son |
Here are today's milestones:
Born on this day:
Anatole France (1844; died October 12, 1924) French poet, journalist, and novelist;
Thaïs;
At the Sign of the Reine Pédauque;
Penguin Island;
The Gods Are Athirst;
The Revolt of the Angels; Nobel Prize in Literature (1921)
John Millington Synge (1871; died March 24, 1909) Irish playwright, poet, prose writer, travel writer, and folklorist; play
The Playboy of the Western World
Charlie Chaplin (1889; died December 25, 1977) English filmmaker;
The Gold Rush;
City Lights;
Modern Times;
The Great Dictator; Honorary Academy Award (1972)
Gertrude Chandler Warner (1890; died August 30, 1979) American author of children's books, especially
The Boxcar Children
Died on this day:
Aphra Behn (1689; born July 10, 1640) British playwright, poet, and fiction writer;
Oroonoko;
The Rover;
The Fair Jilt
Francisco Goya (1828; born March 30, 1746) Spanish painter;
The Second of May;
The Third of May;
La Maja Desnuda;
Saturn Devouring His Son;
Charles IV of Spain and His Family;
Witches' Sabbath;
Manuel Osorio Manrique de Zúñiga
Alexis de Tocqueville (1859; born July 29, 1805) French historian;
Democracy in America
Edna Ferber (1968; born August 15, 1885) American novelist, short story writer and playwright;
So Big;
Cimarron;
Show Boat; Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (1925)
Kawabata Yasunari (1972; born June 11, 1899) Japanese novelist and short story writer; novels
The Scarlet Gang of Asakusa;
Snow Country;
The Master of Go;
Thousand Cranes;
The Old Capital;
The Sound of the Mountain;
Beauty and Sadness; short-stories "The Dancing Girl of Izu";
Palm-of-the-Hand Stories;
Nobel Prize in Literature (1968)
David Lean (1991; born March 25, 1908) English filmmaker;
The Bridge on the River Kwai;
Lawrence of Arabia;
Doctor Zhivago;
A Passage to India; two Academy Awards
Ralph Ellison (1994; born March 1, 1914) American novelist and essayist;
Invisible Man
Bonus Classic:
Zeng Gong (1019-1083) Chinese historian and travel writer;
You Xinzhou Yushan Xiaoyan Ji (
Record of a Tour of Xinzhou Yushan?) (one of "Eight Great Prose Masters of the Tang and Song") essays
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