November 25

That's Cervantes on the right

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Lope de Vega, the other great Spanish writer of that epoch, born today in 1562


Andrew Carnegie, industrialist, which is really not that interesting; but the eponym of Carnegie Hall, which is; born today in 1835


Harley Granville-Barker, English playwright and critic, born today in 
1877


Leonard Woolf (husband of Adeline Virginia Stephen, the other great English writer of that epoch), born today in 1880


Orion Nebula discovered, by one Nicholas Peiresc, today in 
1611









Yukio Mishima (Kimitake Hiraoka before he chose the pen-name), 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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