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Here are today's milestones:
Born on this day:
William L. Manly (1820; died February 5, 1903) American pioneer;
Death Valley in '49
Lincoln Steffens (1866; died August 9, 1936) American writer;
The Shame of the Cities;
Boy on Horseback (part of his
Autobiography)
James Watson (1928) American biologist;
The Double Helix;
Avoid Boring People: Lessons from a Life in Science; Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1962)
Died on this day:
Albrecht Durer (1528; born May 21, 1471) German printmaker and painter;
Knight, Death, and the Devil;
St. Jerome in His Study;
Melencolia I
Alexander Kielland (1906; born February 18, 1849) Norwegian writer of short stories, plays, essays, novels, including
Skipper Worse; with
Ibsen,
Lie, and
Bjørnson, one of Norway's "Four Greats."
Edwin Arlington Robinson (1935; born December 22, 1869) American poet; three Pulitzer Prizes for Poetry:
Collected Poems (1922);
The Man Who Died Twice (1925);
Tristram (1928)
Igor Stravinsky (1971; born June 17, 1882) Russian composer;
L'Oiseau de feu (
The Firebird);
Petrushka;
Le Sacre du printemps (
The Rite of Spring)
Isaac Asimov (1992; born January 2, 1920) American author of science fiction; the
Foundation Series; the
Galactic Empire series; the
Robot series; "Nightfall"; essay collections
Bonus Classic:
Patanjali (around 400 CE) Indian sage who wrote
The Yoga Sutras
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