Leigh Brackett
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| - | == Art and culture == | ||
| - | *[[1871]] - start of the brief rule of the [[Paris Commune]] | ||
| - | *[[1931]] ''[[Tabu (film)|Tabu]]'' by [[F. W. Murnau]] premieres | ||
| - | *[[1950]] ''[[Symphonie pour un homme seul]]'' is first performed in public | ||
| - | *[[1990]] - In largest [[art theft]] in US history, 12 paintings, collectively worth around $300 million, are stolen from the [[Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum]] in [[Boston, Massachusetts]]. | ||
| - | *[[2005]] - [[Terri Schiavo]]'s feeding tube is removed at the request of her husband, fueling a worldwide debate on [[euthanasia]]. | ||
| - | ==Births== | + | '''Leigh Douglass Brackett''' (December 7, 1915 – March 18, 1978) was an [[United States|America]]n author, particularly of [[science fiction]]. She was also a [[screenwriter]], known for her work on such films as ''[[The Big Sleep (1946 film)|The Big Sleep]]'' ([[1945 in film|1945]]), ''[[Rio Bravo (1959 film) |Rio Bravo]]'' ([[1959 in film |1959]]), ''[[The Long Goodbye (film)|The Long Goodbye]]'' ([[1973 in film|1973]]) and ''[[Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back |The Empire Strikes Back]]'' ([[1980 in film|1980]]). |
| - | *[[1634]] - [[Madame de La Fayette]], French writer (''La Princesse de Clèves'') (d. [[1693]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1841]] - [[Félix Alcan]], French publisher. (d. [[1925]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1842]] - [[Stéphane Mallarmé]], French poet (d. [[1898]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1844]] - [[Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov]], Russian composer (d. [[1908]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1915]] - [[Richard Condon]], American novelist (''The Manchurian Candidate'') (d. [[1996]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1924]] - [[Giulio Questi]], Italian film director (''Death Laid an Egg'') | + | |
| - | *[[1928]] - [[Paul van Ostaijen]], Flemish poet and writer (b. [[1896]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1932]] - [[John Updike]], American author | + | |
| - | *[[1941]] - [[Stefan Jarl]], Swedish film director (''They Call Us Misfits'') | + | |
| - | *[[1950]] - [[Brad Dourif]], American actor | + | |
| - | *[[1959]] - [[Luc Besson]], French producer, writer, and director | + | |
| - | *[[1970]] - [[Queen Latifah]], American singer and actress | + | |
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| - | ==Deaths== | + | |
| - | *[[1768]] - [[Laurence Sterne]], Irish writer (b. [[1713]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1978]] - [[Leigh Brackett]], American author (b. [[1915]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1980]] - [[Erich Fromm]], German-born psychologist and philosopher (b. 1900) | + | |
| - | *[[1980]] - [[Tamara de Lempicka]], Polish-born Art Deco painter (b. [[1898]]) | + | |
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Leigh Douglass Brackett (December 7, 1915 – March 18, 1978) was an American author, particularly of science fiction. She was also a screenwriter, known for her work on such films as The Big Sleep (1945), Rio Bravo (1959), The Long Goodbye (1973) and The Empire Strikes Back (1980).
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