HANNA COUSINS TO WED.; Miss Claire Hanna to be the Bride of Howard M. Hanna, Jr.
Date: 14 April 1906
Special to The New York Times
Daughter Claire to marry her cousin H M Hanna Jr
Samuel Beckett Birthday, Date of Birth
Samuel Barclay Beckett ( ; 13 April 1906 – 22 December 1989) was an Irish playwright, poet, novelist, and literary critic. Writing in both English and French, his literary and theatrical works feature bleak, impersonal, and tragicomic episodes of life, coupled with black comedy and literary nonsense. Beckett is regarded by critics as one of the most influential and important playwrights of the 20th century, and is credited with transforming the modern theatre. A major figure of Irish literature, he is best known for his tragicomedy play Waiting for Godot (1953). For his enduring contribution to both literature and theatre, Beckett received the 1969 Nobel Prize in Literature, "for his writing, which—in new forms for the novel and drama—in the destitution of modern man acquires its elevation."
During his early career, Beckett worked as a literary critic and commentator, and in 1930 he took up a role as a lecturer in Dublin. He wrote his first novel Dream of Fair to Middling Women in 1932, which influenced many of his later works, but it wasn't published until after his death. Around this time, Beckett also began studying artistic expressions and art history, particularly of paintings displayed at the National Gallery of Ireland. He maintained a close friendship with Irish writer James Joyce throughout his life, and cited him as a major inspiration for his works. As a resident of Paris for most of his adult life, Beckett wrote in both French and English, sometimes under the pseudonym Andrew Belis. His later literary works, especially his plays, became increasingly austere and minimalistic as his career progressed, involving more aesthetic and linguistic experimentation, with techniques of stream of consciousness repetition and self-reference. During the Second World War, Beckett became a member of the French Resistance group Gloria SMH (Réseau Gloria) and was awarded the Croix de Guerre in 1949.
His works were well received by critics and theatre audiences during his own lifetime, and his career spanned both Ireland and France, with short stints in Germany and Italy. During these terms, Beckett collaborated with many actors, actresses and theatre directors for his plays, including Jack MacGowran, Billie Whitelaw, Jocelyn Herbert, and Walter Asmus. Beckett's works are known for their existential themes, and these made them an important part of 20th-century plays and dramas. In 1961, he shared the inaugural Prix International with Jorge Luis Borges. He was also the first person to be elected Saoi of Aosdána in 1984.
Beckett is considered to be one of the last modernist writers and a key figure in what Martin Esslin called the "Theatre of the Absurd." He died in 1989 and was buried at the Cimetière du Montparnasse. His most well-known play, Waiting for Godot, has since become a centrepiece of modernist literature, and in a public poll conducted by London's Royal National Theatre in 1998, it was voted as "the most significant English-language play of the 20th century."
Read more...- Birthday, Date of Birth
- Friday, April 13, 1906
- Place of Birth
- Foxrock
- Age
- 119
- Star Sign
- ♈
The April 13, 1906 was a Friday under the star sign of ♈. It was the 102 day of the year. President of the United States was Theodore Roosevelt.
If you were born on this day, you are 119 years old. Your last birthday was on the Sunday, April 13, 2025, 159 days ago. Your next birthday is on Monday, April 13, 2026, in 205 days. You have lived for 43,624 days, or about 1,046,998 hours, or about 62,819,912 minutes, or about 3,769,194,720 seconds.
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13th of April 1906 News
News as it appeared on the front page of the New York Times on April 13, 1906
THE FINANCIAL MARKETS; Stocks Strong; Call Money Rates, 3@6 Per Cent. Easier Money and Outlook for Good Bank Return the Factors.
Date: 14 April 1906
RUMPUS AT MEETING OF RUBBER GOODS CO.; Mr. Heckscher Complains of Transfer of Control. ATTACKS BRADY SYNDICATE Officers of U.S. Rubber Company Say Rubber Goods Stockholders Profited by the Deal.
Date: 14 April 1906
NEWS OF THE BOOK WORLD ABROAD.; New Stories by Rudyard Kipling -- Adriatic Civilization, Wedmore's Whistler Book, Oriental Carpets.
Date: 14 April 1906
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VESUVIUS IS CALMER, AND NAPLES REJOICES; People Thank God After a Hopeful Message from Matteucci. 5,000 REFUGEES IN THE CITY Six Thousand Men Working with Feverish Activity to Remove the Ashes -- King and Queen Depart.
Date: 14 April 1906
5,000 refugees in Naples
POLICE IN AMBUSH WAIT FOR HOTEL INCENDIARY; Plain-Clothes Men Swarm in the Broadway Central. OTHER HOUSES GUARDED, TOO Police Think Pyromaniac or a Discharged Employe Set Fires Wednesday Night -- Other Theories.
Date: 13 April 1906
ASH FALL IN NAPLES GREATER THAN EVER; But Vesuvius Is Becoming Calmer and Panic Is Decreasing. THE KING VISITS OTTAJANO Denounces a Priest Who Deserted His Post -- A Princess Has to Walk Twelve Miles.
Date: 13 April 1906
Vesuvius becoming calmer
OSBORNE ON NEWSPAPERS.; He Thinks the Solution of Our Great Problems Lies with Them.
Date: 13 April 1906
J W Osborn says solution of US civil, commercial and indus problems lies with the newspaper; other comments