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Mockingbirds defend their nest; detail
of a plate in Audubon's Birds of America |
Here are today's milestones:
Born on this day:
Marcus Aurelius (121; died March 17, 180) Roman emperor and Stoic philosopher;
The Meditations
William Shakespeare (baptized on this date, 1564; died April 23, 1616) pre-eminent English playwright and poet;
Hamlet;
King Lear;
Macbeth;
The Tempest
John James Audubon (1785; died January 27, 1851) American naturalist and painter;
Birds of America; journals
Eugene Delacroix (1798; died August 13, 1863) French painter;
Massacre at Chios;
Greece Expiring on the Ruins of Missolonghi;
Liberty Leading the People
Artemus Ward (1834; died March 6, 1867) American humorist; numerous short humorous pieces
Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889; died April 29, 1951) Austrian-British philosopher;
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus;
Philosophical Investigations
A. E. van Vogt (1912; died January 26, 2000) Canadian author of science fiction; best-known for the novel
Slan; short stories "The Silkie"; "The Weapon Shop"; "Black Destroyer"
Bernard Malamud (1914; died March 18, 1986) American novelist and short story writer;
The Natural;
The Fixer; Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (1967)
Natasha Trethewey (1966) American poet;
Domestic Work;
Native Guard; Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (2006); Poet Laureate of the US (2012–2014)
Died on this day:
Count Basie (1984; born August 21, 1904) American performer; "One O'Clock Jump"; "April in Paris"; "Everyday (I Have the Blues)"; Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award (2002)
Björnstjerne Björnson (1910; born December 8, 1832) Norwegian writer and Nobel winner (1903) known for his "peasant tales" such as
A Happy Boy; with
Ibsen,
Lie, and
Kielland, one of Norway's "Four Greats."
Bonus Classic:
Euclid (flourished 300 BCE) Greek mathematician who wrote the
Elements
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