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Illustration from Beatrix Potter's
The Tale of Peter Rabbit |
Here are today's milestones:
Born on this day:
Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844; died June 8, 1889) English poet; "Binsey Poplars"; "Pied Beauty"; "The Windhover";
The Wreck of the Deutschland
Louise Smith Clapp (1819; died February 11, 1906) American author;
The Shirley Letters
Beatrix Potter (1866; died December 22, 1943) English natural scientist and children's author;
The Tale of Peter Rabbit and others
Malcolm Lowry (1909; died June 26, 1957) English poet and novelist;
Ultramarine;
Under the Volcano;
Hear Us O Lord from Heaven Thy Dwelling Place;
Lunar Caustic;
Dark as the Grave wherein my Friend is Laid;
October Ferry to Gabriola
John Ashbery (1927; died September 3, 2017) American poet;
Self-portrait in a Convex Mirror; Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (1976)
Died on this day:
Antonio Vivaldi (1741; born March 4, 1678) Italian composer;
Le Quattro Stagioni (
The Four Seasons)
Johann Sebastian Bach (1750; born March 21, 1685) German composer;
The Brandenburg Concertos;
The Goldberg Variations;
St. Matthew Passion;
The Well-Tempered Clavier
Edogawa Ranpo (1965; born October 21, 1894) Japanese crime novelist and short story writer; "Private Detective Kogoro Akechi" series
Francis Crick (2004; born June 8, 1916) British biologist;
Of Molecules and Men;
What Mad Pursuit: A Personal View of Scientific Discovery;
The Astonishing Hypothesis: The Scientific Search For The Soul; Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1962)
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