Saturday, March 31, 2007

Madonna with a Mystical Rose
by
Salvador Felipe Jacinto Dalí Domènech, Marquis of Pubol
(1963)


Other interesting people, besides my brother, who were born on March 31st:

1499 - Pope Pius IV
1596 - René Descartes
1675 - Pope Benedict XIV
1732 - Joseph Haydn
1914 - Octavio Paz
1926 - John Fowles
1927 - César Chávez
1929 - Liz Claiborne
1932 - Nagisa Oshima
1943 - Christopher Walken
1948 - Al Gore
1971 - Ewan McGregor

And since he mused on births AND deaths over at his spot, I thought I'd also give a little list of interesting people who died on March 31st:

1631 - John Donne
1727 - Sir Isaac Newton
1855 - Charlotte Brontë
1945 - Anne Frank
1993 - Brandon Lee