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Here are today's milestones:
Born on this day:
J. M. W. Turner (1775; died December 19, 1851) English painter;
Dido building Carthage;
Snow Storm;
The Burning of the Houses of Lords and Commons;
Modern Rome-Campo Vaccino;
Agrippina Landing with the Ashes of Germanicus;
Sunrise with Sea Monsters
Wei Yuan (1794; died August 26, 1856) Chinese scholar;
Haiguo Tuzhi (
Illustrated Treatise on the Maritime Kingdoms)
Ruggero Leoncavallo (1857; died August 9, 1919) Italian composer;
Pagliacci
Max Planck (1858; died October 4, 1947) German physicist who wrote
Eight Lectures on Theoretical Physics;
Where Is Science Going?;
Scientific Autobiography and other papers;
The Origin and Development of the Quantum Theory; Nobel Prize in Physics in 1918
Sergei Prokofiev (1891; died March 5, 1953) Russian composer;
The Love for Three Oranges;
Lieutenant Kijé;
Romeo and Juliet;
Alexander Nevsky;
Piano Concerto No. 3;
Symphony No. 1 ("
Classical");
Peter and the Wolf
Died on this day:
Miguel de Cervantes (1616; born September 29, 1547) Spanish novelist, poet, and playwright;
The History of Don Quixote de la Mancha
William Shakespeare (1616; baptized April 26, 1564) pre-eminent English playwright and poet;
Hamlet;
King Lear;
Macbeth;
The Tempest
William Wordsworth (1850; born April 7, 1770) English poet;
Lyrical Ballads;
Poems in Two Volumes;
The Excursion;
The Prelude;
I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud
Charles Warren Stoddard (1909; born August 7, 1843) American author and editor;
South-Sea Idyls;
Over the Rocky Mountains to Alaska;
In the Footprints of the Padres;
Summer Cruising in the South Seas
Otto Preminger (1986; born December 5, 1905) Austrian American filmmaker;
Laura;
Fallen Angel;
The Man with the Golden Arm; Anatomy of a Murder;
Exodus;
Advise and Consent;
The Cardinal
P. L. Travers (1996; born August 9, 1899) Australian-born British novelist and children's writer; the "Mary Poppins" series; spiritual writings
Bonus Classic:
Plautus (c. 254-184) Roman comic playwright known for
Menaechmi (
The Brothers Menaechmus or
The Two Menaechmuses];
Captivi (
The Captives or
The Prisoners)
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