Born on this day – 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).