Born on this day – Robert Browning:

Robert Browning

Writer

May 7, 1812 – December 12, 1889

Credits:

A Death in the Desert; A Grammarian's Funeral; A Toccata of Galuppi's; Abt Vogler; An Epistle Containing the Strange Medical Experience of Karshish, the Arab Physician; Andrea Del Sarto; Aristophanes' Apology (1875); Asolando: Prologue / Summum Bonum / Bad Dreams III / Flute-Music, with an Accompaniment / Epilogue (1889); Balaustion's Adventure (1871); Bells and Pomegranates (1841–46); Bells and Pomegranates No. I: Pippa Passes (play) (1841); Bells and Pomegranates No. II: King Victor and King Charles (play) (1842); Bells and Pomegranates No. III: Dramatic Lyrics (1842); Bells and Pomegranates No. IV: The Return of the Druses (play) (1843); Bells and Pomegranates No. V: A Blot in the 'Scutcheon (play) (1843); Bells and Pomegranates No. VI: Colombe's Birthday (play) (1844); Bells and Pomegranates No. VII: Dramatic Romances and Lyrics (1845); Bells and Pomegranates No. VIII: Luria and A Soul's Tragedy (plays) (1846); Bishop Blougram's Apology; By the Fire-side; Caliban upon Setebos; Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came; Christmas-Eve and Easter-Day (1850); Cleon; Count Gismond; Dramatic Idyls (1879); Dramatic Idyls: Second Series (1880); Dramatis Personae (1864); Evelyn Hope; Ferishtah's Fancies (1884); Fifine at the Fair (1872); Fra Lippo Lippi; Home Thoughts from Abroad; How It Strikes a Contemporary; How They Brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix; Jocoseria (1883); Johannes Agricola in Meditation; La Saisiaz and The Two Poets of Croisic (1878); Love Among the Ruins; Master Hugues of Saxe-Gotha; Meeting at Night; Memorabilia; Men and Women (1855); Mr. Sludge, "The Medium"; My Last Duchess; My Star; Numpholeptos; Pacchiarotto, and How He Worked in Distemper (1876); Pan and Luna; Paracelsus (1835); Parleyings with Certain People of Importance in Their Day (1887); Pauline: A Fragment of a Confession (1833); Porphyria's Lover; Prince Hohenstiel-Schwangau, Saviour of Society (1871); Prospice; Rabbi Ben Ezra; Red Cotton Night-Cap Country, or, Turf and Towers (1873); Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister; Sordello (1840); Strafford (play) (1837); Thamuris Marching; The Agamemnon of Aeschylus (1877); The Bishop Orders His Tomb at Saint Praxed's Church; The Inn Album (1875); The Laboratory; The Last Ride Together (1855); The Lost Leader; The Patriot; The Pied Piper of Hamelin; The Ring and the Book (1868–69); The Statue and the Bust; The Year's at the Spring.

Movies and television:

A Blot on the 'Scutcheon (1912); A Light Woman (1920); About Religion (1964); Abra Cadabra (1983); As Husbands Go (1934); Child of M'sieu (1919); Classic Tales (2008); Directions (1965); Faerie Tale Theatre (1985); Fluteman (1982); It's the Pied Piper, Charlie Brown (2000); James Lee's Wife (1913); Kummatty (1979); Kunt u mij de weg naar Hamelen vertellen, mijnheer? (1972–1976); Magic Hands (2016); My Last Duchess (2020); Pied Piper of Hamelin (1903); Pied Piper of Hamelin (2015); Pippa Passes; or, the Song of Conscience (1909); The Flight of the Duchess (1916); The Light Woman (1913); The Pied Piper (1907); The Pied Piper (1933); The Pied Piper (1972); The Pied Piper (1986); The Pied Piper by Adrian Mitchell (1986); The Pied Piper of Guadalupe (1961); The Pied Piper of Hamelin (1911); The Pied Piper of Hamelin (1913); The Pied Piper of Hamelin (1918); The Pied Piper of Hamelin (1926); The Pied Piper of Hamelin (1957); The Pied Piper of Hamelin (1981); The Pied Piper of Hamlin (1992); The Reluctant Dragon (1987); The Ring and the Book (1914); The Sweet Hereafter (1997); Women and Roses (1914).

Born on this day – Charles Dickens:

Charles Dickens

Writer

February 7, 1812 – June 9, 1870

Credits:

100 Dastardly Little Detective Stories (1993); 100 Hair-Raising Little Horror Stories (1993); 30 Eternal Masterpieces of Humorous Stories (2019); 30 Occult & Supernatural Masterpieces You Have to Read Before You Die (2019); 50 Classic Novellas (2011); A Child's History of England (1854); A Christmas Carol (1843); A House to Let (1858); A House to Let (1858); A House to Let (1858); A Tale of Two Cities (1859); A Terribly Strange Bed (1852); After Dark (1856); Alfred Hitchcock's Fatal Attractions (1983); An Accursed Race (1855); Barnaby Rudge (1841); Bessy's Troubles at Home (1852); Black and White (2015); Bleak House (1853); Bran (2015); Children's Christmas Stories and Poems (1995); Chilling Ghost Stories (2015); Classic Sea Stories (1996); Classic Victorian & Edwardian Ghost Stories (1996); Company Manners (2018); Cousin Phyllis (1864); David Copperfield (1850); Disappearances (1851); Doctor Marigold (1866); Dombey and Son (1848); Echoes Of Terror (1980); Fireside Ghost Stories for Christmas Eve (2015); French Life (1864); George Silverman's Explanation (1868); Ghost Stories (1986); Great Expectations (1861); Great Law and Order Stories (1990); Great Short Stories of Detection, Mystery and Horror (1931); H.P. Lovecraft's Book of Horror (1993); Hard Times (1854); Hungry for Blood – Ultimate Halloween Collection (2023); Hunted Down (2016); John Jago's Ghost (1874); Libbie Marsh's Three Eras (1855); Little Dorrit (1855); Lizzie Leigh (1850); London Stories (2013); Master Humphrey's Clock (1841); Master Humphrey's Clock, Volume 2 (1841); Miss Gwilt (1880); Miss or Mrs.? (1873); Morton Hall (2004); Mr. Harrison's Confessions (1851); Mr. Wray's Cash Box (1852); Mudfog and Other Papers Contributed to Bentley's Miscellany (1880); My French Master (2004); My Lady's Money (1879); No Thoroughfare (1867); No Thoroughfare (1867); Old Curiosity Shop (1841); Our Mutual Friend (1865); Reprinted Pieces (1861); Right at Last (1858); Round the Christmas Fire (2013); Select Short Fiction (1976); Sexton's Hero (1847); Sights A-Foot (1887); Six Weeks at Heppenheim (2004); Sketches by Boz (1836); Tales of Terror: Between Heaven and the Earth (2002); Terrifying Ghosts Short Stories (2021); That Glimpse of Truth (2014); The Adventures of Oliver Twist (1838); The Angler's Story of the Lady of Glenwith Grange (1855); The Battle of Life (1846); The Black Veil (1836); The Cauldron of Oil (1861); The Chimes (1844); The Complete Ghost Stories of Charles Dickens (1866); The Cricket on the Hearth (1845); The Crooked Branch (2004); The Dead Alive (1873); The Doom of the Griffiths (1858); The Dover Anthology of Classic Christmas Stories (2023); The Dream Woman (1855); The Greatest Books of All Time #4 (2017); The Greatest Ghost and Horror Stories Ever Written: volume 3 (2019); The Half-Brothers (1859); The Hanged Man's Bride (1857); The Haunted Hotel (1879); The Haunted House (1859); The Haunted House (1859); The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain (1848); The Heart of John Middleton (2004); The Holly Tree Inn (1850); The Last Stage Coachman (1843); The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit (1844); The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickelby (1839); The Little Book of Horrors: Tiny Tales of Terror (1992); The Lock and Key Library Classic Mystery and Detective Stories (1909); The Magic Fishbone (1867); The Manchester Marriage (1858); The Moorland Cottage (1850); The Mystery of Edwin Drood (1870); The Nun's Story of Gabriel's Marriage (1853); The Occult Fiction Collection (2019); The Oxford Book of Modern Fairy Tales (1993); The Phantom Coach (2014); The Pickwick Papers (1837); The Poor Clare (1856); The Poor Traveller / Boots at the Holly-Tree Inn (1858); The Queen of Hearts (1859); The Scholar's Story (2016); The Shah's English Gardener (1852); The Signalman & Other Ghost Stories (1984); The Squire's Story (1855); The Well of Pen Morfa (2004); The Wimbourne Book of Victorian Ghost Stories: Volume 2 (2016); The World's Greatest Horror Stories (2004); The Yellow Mask (1887); Three Ghost Stories (1998); Thrillers (1994); To Be Read at Dusk (1852); Victorian Anthologies of Classic Spectral Stories to Chill and Thrill the Senses (2020); Who Killed Zebedee? (1880); Wicked Wit of Charles Dickens (2002); World's Great Mystery Stories (1943); Writers: Their Lives and Works (2018); Writing New York (1998).