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Today in History: Born on March 1

1810

Frédéric Chopin, composer and pianist.

1837

William Dean Howells, novelist.

1904

Glenn Miller, big band leader during the 1930s and '40s.

1914

Ralph Waldo Ellison, African-American author (Invisible Man).

1917

Robert Lowell, Jr., poet, won Pulitzer Prize in 1947 for Lord Weary's Castle.

1921

Richard Wilbur, Pulitzer Prize winning poet and translator.

1921

Howard Nemerov, writer, another Pulitzer Prize recipient.

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