Henry James Pye, British Poet Laureate 1790-1843, was born on this day in 1745 | |
German poet Johann Heinrich Voss (Antisymbolik; German translation of Homer's Odyssey) was born on this day in 1751. It is Voss who gave us the phrase "Wine, Women, and Song" in the quotation "He who loves not wine, women and song, remains a fool his whole life long!" | |
Frederick Douglass, abolitionist writer and lecturer, died on this day in 1895 | |
Hunter S. Thompson (Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas) died on this day in 2005 |
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