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| Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico, 1941 by Ansel Adams |
Here are today's milestones:
Born on this day:
Henry Fielding (1707; died October 8, 1754) English novelist and dramatist most famous for
The History of Tom Jones
Immanuel Kant (1724; died February 12, 1804) German philosopher;
Kritik der reinen Vernunft (
Critique of Pure Reason);
Kritik der praktischen Vernunft (
Critique of Practical Reason);
Die Metaphysik der Sitten (
The Metaphysics of Morals);
Kritik der Urteilskraft (
Critique of Judgment)
Vladimir Lenin (1870; died January 21, 1924) Russian revolutionary and political theorist;
State and Revolution;
Imperialism
Otto Rank (1884; died October 31, 1939) Austrian psychoanalyst, writer, and teacher;
Der Mythus von der Geburt des Helden (
The Myth of the Birth of the Hero);
Das Inzest-Motiv in Dichtung und Sage (
The Incest Theme in Literature and Legend);
Das Trauma der Geburt (
The Trauma of Birth)
Vladimir Nabokov (1899; died July 2, 1977) Russian-American novelist; novels
The Defense;
The Gift;
Bend Sinister;
Lolita;
Pnin;
Pale Fire;
Ada, or Ardor;
memoir
Speak, Memory
Louise Glück (1943) American poet;
Firstborn;
Triumph of Achilles;
The Wild Iris;
Meadowlands;
Averno; Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (1993); US Poet Laureate (2003–2004)
Died on this day:
Kukai (835; born July 27, 774) Japanese monk and founder of Shingon Buddhism; fifty religious works, including
Attaining Enlightenment in This Very Existence;
The Meaning of Sound, Word, Reality; Meanings of the Word Hum
Ansel Adams (1984; born February 20, 1902) American photographer; Landscape photography of the American Southwest;
Monolith, The Face of Half Dome, Yosemite National Park, 1927;
Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico, 1941; created the "Zone System" of black-and-white exposure
Mircea Eliade (1986; born March 13, 1907) Romanian historian of religion, philosopher, and fiction writer;
Shamanism: Archaic Techniques of Ecstasy;
Cosmos and History: The Myth of the Eternal Return;
The Sacred and the Profane: The Nature of Religion;
From Primitives to Zen
Bonus Classic:
Zisi (Kong Ji) (c. 481-402 BCE) Chinese philosopher known for
Zhong Yong (
Doctrine of the Mean) (one of Confucianism's "Four Books")
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