“At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.”

― Albert Schweitzer

1593 Izaak Walton, English biographer and author

1631 John Dryden, English poet, literary critic, translator, and playwright.

1648 Johann Michael Bach, German composer of the Baroque period. Halt was du hast, and Ach bleib bei uns, Herr Jesu Christ

1776 Amedeo Avogadro, Italian scientist, most noted for his contribution to molecular theory now known as Avogadro’s law, which states that equal volumes of gases under the same conditions of temperature and pressure will contain equal numbers of molecules.

1897 Ralph Wyckoff, American scientist and pioneer of X-ray crystallography.

1927 Daniel Keyes, American author (Flowers for Algernon)

MISCELLANY:

FOCUSED PROTECTION: The Great Barrington Declaration

SCIENCE, ETHICS, AND THE NUREMBERG CODE: Declaration of Canadian Physicians for Science and Truth

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