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Lope de Vega (Lope Félix de Vega y Carpio in full), the other truly great Spanish writer of that epoch, born today in 1562
Andrew Carnegie, steely industrialist, which is really not that interesting (money never is; it's what you do with it that matters); but the eponym of New York's Carnegie Hall, now that is (and can be found on Jan 16), and of numerous public libraries in the UK and beyond, for which see Prashker's London when it gets published, and here in the meanwhile; born today in 1835, in the home of his first library, Dunfermline in Scotland.
Harley Granville-Barker, English playwright and critic, born today in 1877
Leonard Woolf, husband of Adeline Virginia Stephen, the other truly great English writer of that epoch, but just as significantly the co-founder of The Hogarth Press), born today in 1880; and if I have included him, and this link to the London Library, perhaps it's just an excuse to include thereby one of my very favourite Virginia Woolfisms: when she joined the London Library, aged 22, and had to fill in the membership form, she wrote under Occupation.... "Spinster".
Orion Nebula discovered, by one Nicolas Peiresc, today in 1611
Yukio Mishima (Kimitake Hiraoka before he chose the pen-name, which may or may not mean "man of the snowy islands", depending on how you read the kanji), the only great Japanese novelist of that epoch, committed ritual suicide (see my Kyoto piece in "Travels in Familiar Lands", today in 1970
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