Pietro Francesco Cavalli (1602-1676)
Alexander Dargomizhsky (1813-1869)
Ignaz Friedman (1882-1948)
Jack Benny (1894-1974)
Wyn Morris (1929-2010)
Steven Mackey (1956)
Renée Fleming (1959)
and
Frederick Douglass (1814-1895)
Carl Bernstein (1944)
and
On this day in 1895, Oscar Wilde’s play The Importance of Being Earnest
opened in London. He wrote the first draft in just 21 days, the fastest
he’d ever written anything.
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