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Joseph Jefferson as Washington
Irving's "Rip Van Winkle" (1896) |
Here are today's milestones:
Born on this day:
George Herbert (1593; died March 1, 1633) Welsh poet and Anglican priest;
The Temple: Sacred Poems and Private Ejaculations;
A Priest to the Temple (also called
The Country Parson)
Washington Irving (1783; died November 28, 1859) American short story writer, essayist, and historian; "Rip Van Winkle" and "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow," both in
The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.
Edward Everett Hale (1822; died June 10, 1909) American author and cleric;
Illustrious Americans (co-author); "The Man without a Country";
Boys' Heroes
Died on this day:
Johannes Brahms (1897; born April 3, 1897) German composer; The "Lullaby";
Academic Festival Overture;
The Tragic Overture;
A German Requiem;
Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel;
The Paganini Variations;
Variations on a Theme by Haydn
Manfred Bennington Lee (1971; born January 11, 1905) American author of crime stories; half of a pair of cousins who together created the fictional character and equally-fictional writer "Ellery Queen." (His cousin's name was Daniel Nathan, pen named Frederic Dannay)
Ferde Grofe (1972; born March 27, 1892) American composer;
Mississippi Suite;
Grand Canyon Suite;
Death Valley Suite;
Niagara Falls Suite
Graham Greene (1991; born October 2, 1904) English novelist and author who wrote
Brighton Rock;
The Power and the Glory;
The Heart of the Matter;
The End of the Affair;
The Confidential Agent;
The Third Man;
The Quiet American;
Our Man in Havana;
The Human Factor;
Monsignor Quixote
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala (2013; born May 7, 1927) German-born British and American novelist, short story writer, and screenwriter known for her novel
Heat and Dust, and adapting the screenplays from E. M. Forster's
Room with a View and
Howards End (winning Oscars for both)
Bonus Classic:
Epicurus (341-270 BCE) Greek philosopher; wrote three letters, known mainly through Diogenes Laërtius; and other fragments
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