FAMOUS AUTHOR’S BIRTDAYS: 04 DECEMBER: 1795 - Thomas Carlyle, Scotland, essayist/historian (French Revolution) 1835 - Samuel Butler, England, author (Erewhom, Way of All Flesh) 1875 - Rainer Maria Rilke, Austria, poet (Duino Elegies) 1883 - Katharine Susannah Prichard, Australian author (d. 1969) 1907 - Jo Boer, Dutch author (Catharina & the Magnolias) 1912 - John W Pritchard, [Ian Wallace], US, sci-fi author (Megalomania) OTHER INTERESTING DATES: 1866 - Vassily V Kandinsky, Russ/Ger/Fr abstract painter (Dreamy Inspiration
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