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| Edouard Manet's Luncheon on the Grass (detail) |
Here are today's milestones:
Born on this day:
Franz Lehar (1870; died October 24, 1948) Austro-Hungarian composer whose many operettas include
Die lustige Witwe (
The Merry Widow)
Annie Dillard (1945) American writer;
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek;
Holy the Firm;
For the Time Being;
An American Childhood;
The Maytrees; Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction (1975)
Died on this day:
Lucan (65; born November 3, 39) Roman poet known for
Pharsalia or
De Bello Civili (
On the Civil War); perhaps
Laus Pisonis (
Praise of Piso)
Edouard Manet (1883; born January 23, 1832) French painter;
Luncheon on the Grass;
Olympia;
A Bar at the Folies-Bergère;
Young Flautist or
The Fifer
A. E. Housman (1936; born March 26, 1859) English poet and scholar;
A Shropshire Lad
Adolf Hitler (1945; born April 20, 1889) Austrian-German politician;
Mein Kampf (
My Struggle)
Nagai Kafu (1959; born December 3, 1879) Japanese novelist, short-story writer, playwright, essayist, and diarist;
Ude Kurabe (
Geisha in Rivalry);
Amerika Monogatari (
American Stories);
Sumidagawa (Sumida River);
Bokuto Kidan (
A Strange Tale from East of the River);
films
The Strange Story of Oyuki;
Bungō: Sasayaka na yokubō;
Yume no onna (
Yearning)
Sergio Leone (1989; born January 3, 1929) Italian filmmaker; the
Dollars trilogy (
A Fistful of Dollars;
For a Few Dollars More;
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly);
Once Upon a Time in the West;
Once Upon a Time in America
Bonus Classic:
The Poem of the Cid (end of the 12th century) Spanish epic poem about a hero named "El Cid" (Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar) and his role in evicting the Moors from Spain
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