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Yehuda Alharizi – translator of Maimonides' Guide for the Perplexed and Arabic maqama poetry; Cabret – translator from Latin – end of 14th century; T. Carmi – translator of Shakespeare; Abraham bar Hiyya Ha-Nasi – translator of scientific works from Arabic into Hebrew (for further translation into Latin by Plato of Tivoli)
May 29 – Joachim Mörlin, German Lutheran bishop (b. 1514) June 1 – John Story, English Catholic (martyred) (b. 1504) June 3 – Tarik Sulayman, Filipino chieftain; June 7 – Francesco Corteccia, Italian composer (b. 1502) July 6 – Mōri Motonari, Japanese warlord (b. 1497) July 15 – Shimazu Takahisa, Japanese samurai and warlord (b. 1514)
Krautrock: German-like English name for a variety of German rock; Neue Deutsche Härte (NDH): "New German Hardness"; a genre of German rock that mixes traditional hard rock with dance-like keyboard parts. Recently it has begun to appear in English. Neue Deutsche Todeskunst: "New German Death Art": a movement within the darkwave and gothic rock ...
The German word Eierlein "little egg" is a corruption of a diminutive of Uhr (Middle Low German ûr, from Latin hora) "clock", Aeurlein or Ueurlein (Modern German Ührlein). The association with "eggs" may arise with a 1571 translation of Rabelais by Johann Fischart in 1571; Fischart translated as Eierlein an instance of Ueurlein in Rabelais.
Night of January 16th is a play by Ayn Rand inspired by the death of Ivar Kreuger, an industrialist and accused swindler known as the Match King.The play is set in a courtroom during a murder trial and audience members are chosen to play the jury.
In 1839–1842 One Thousand and One Nights was translated into German by Gustav Weil. From 1895 to 1897, Max Henning published another German translation in 24 small volumes; the first seven volumes were based on the Bulaq edition, while volumes 18–24 were largely translated from Richard Francis Burton.
John Story (or Storey) (1504 – 1 June 1571) was an English Roman Catholic martyr and Member of Parliament.Story escaped to Flanders in 1563, but seven years later he was lured aboard a boat in Antwerp and abducted to England, where he was imprisoned in the Tower of London, and subsequently executed at Tyburn on a charge of treason.
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (/ s ɜːr ˈ v æ n t iː z,-t ɪ z / sur-VAN-teez, -tiz; [5] Spanish: [miˈɣel de θeɾˈβantes saaˈβeðɾa]; 29 September 1547 (assumed) – 22 April 1616 NS) [6] was a Spanish writer widely regarded as the greatest writer in the Spanish language and one of the world's pre-eminent novelists.