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Illustration by William Blake for his poem
"The Tyger" in his collection Songs of Experience. |
Here are today's milestones:
Born on this day:
Cecil B. DeMille (1881; died January 21, 1959) American filmmaker; silent movies
The Squaw Man;
The Trail of the Lonesome Pine; "talkies"
Cleopatra;
The Plainsman; "epics"
Samson and Delilah;
The Greatest Show on Earth (Academy Award, 1953);
The Ten Commandments
Erwin Schrodinger (1887; died January 4, 1961) Austrian physicist and philosopher of science;
Science and the Human Temperament;
Science and Humanism;
My View of the World;
What Is Life?; Nobel Prize in Physics (1933)
Died on this day:
William Blake (1827; born November 28, 1757) English poet and artist;
Songs of Innocence and of Experience;
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell;
Jerusalem;
Milton
Helen Hunt Jackson (1885; born October 15, 1830) American writer and activist on behalf of Native Americans;
Ramona;
A Century of Dishonor
James Russell Lowell (1891; born February 22, 1819) American poet, critic, and editor;
A Fable for Critics;
The Biglow Papers
Thomas Mann (1955; born June 6, 1875) German novelist, short story writer, essayist;
Buddenbrooks;
The Magic Mountain;
Death in Venice;
Joseph and His Brothers;
Doctor Faustus; Nobel Prize in Literature (1929)
Ian Fleming (1964; born May 28, 1908) English author; creator of the
James Bond series
Nakagami Kenji (1992; born August 2, 1946) Japanese novelist and essayist;
The Cape;
The Sea of Withered Trees;
Hanzo's Bird;
The Immortal;
The Cape and other stories from the Japanese Ghetto;
Snakelust
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