“The most important decision you make is to be in a good mood.”

― Voltaire

1552 Lavinia Fontana, Italian painter

1561 Bartholomeus Pitiscus, German mathematician (Trigonometry)

1591 Robert Herrick, English poet.

1725 Johann Balthasar Kehl, German composer. So gehst du dann, mein Jesu! hin

1733 David Traugott Nicolai, German composer.

1759 William Wilberforce, British politician, philanthropist and a leader of the movement to abolish the slave trade.

1957 Stephen Fry, English actor, broadcaster, comedian, director, audiobook narrator and writer.

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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