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Lara Antipova (Julie Christie), Dr. Yuri Andreyevich Zhivago
(Omar Sharif), and Tonya Gromeko (Geraldine Chaplin)
from the poster for David Lean's epic 1965 film
adaptation of Boris Pasternak's Doctor Zhivago |
Here are today's milestones:
Born on this day:
Charles Lamb (1775; died December 27, 1834) English author;
Essays of Elia;
Tales from Shakespeare;
The Adventures of Ulysses
Boris Pasternak (1890; died May 30, 1960) Russian poet and novelist;
My Sister;
Life;
The Second Birth;
Doctor Zhivago; Nobel Prize in Literature (1958)
Bertolt Brecht (1898; died August 14, 1956) German poet and playwright;
The Threepenny Opera;
Life of Galileo;
Mother Courage and Her Children;
The Good Person of Szechwan;
The Caucasian Chalk Circle;
The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui
Died this on day:
Montesquieu (1755; born January 18, 1689) French man of letters;
Lettres Persanes (
Persian Letters);
Considérations sur les Causes de la Grandeur des Romains et de Leur Décadence (
Considerations on the Causes of the Grandeur and Decadence of the Romans);
De l'Esprit des Lois (
The Spirit of the Laws)
Alexander Pushkin (1837; born June 6, 1799) Russian poet, playwright, and novelist;
Eugene Onegin;
The Captain's Daughter;
Boris Godunov;
Ruslan and Ludmila
Claude Bernard (1878; born July 12, 1813) French physiologist;
Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine
Joseph Lister (1912; born April 5, 1827) British surgeon;
On the Antiseptic Principle of the Practice of Surgery;
Autobiography
Laura Ingalls Wilder (1957; born February 7, 1867) American author;
Little House on the Prairie and its sequels
Alex Haley (1992; born August 11, 1921) American author;
Roots;
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
Arthur Miller (2005; born October 17, 1915) American playwright and essayist who wrote
All My Sons;
Death of a Salesman;
The Crucible;
A View from the Bridge
Bonus Classic:
Biblical Apocrypha (c. 200?) so-called "intertestamental literature," books included in the Catholic
Bible, but not the Protestant one
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