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Jean Racine, France's Shakespeare,
born today in 1639. See my essay in "Beyond The Fourth Wall"
GER day in Romania, the overthrow of Ceausescu, today in 1989
Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky was due to be executed, today in 1849, but was pardoned at the last minute
One of the very few whose greatness is of such magnitude that I am posting both her birth date (November 22, 1819) and her death date: Mary Ann Evans (George Eliot), her work still sadly incomplete, today in 1880.
And on the same day, another who merits that accolade, Samuel Beckett (born April 13, 1906) reached his endgame, ceased waiting for Godot, took his final breath, and came to the last of his happy days, today in 1989
Ma Rainey, Gertrude Pridgett, "Mother of the Blues," unwrapped her bedroll for the very last time, today in 1939 - listen to her singing here.
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