“The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.”

― H.L. Mencken

1620 Isabella Leonarda, Italian religious composer. Sonata decima, and Queste ch’a Voi consagro

1633 Sebastian Knupfer, German composer, conductor and educator. Erforsche mich Gott, and ‘Ich will euch trösten’ from Die Turteltaube lässt sich hören

1644 Juan Bautista Jose Cabanilles, Spanish organist and composer. Pasacalle de 1. tono for harpsichord, 01 Prelude: Tiento lleno 4˚ tono

1648 Johann Schelle, German composer, Vom Himmel kam der Engel Schar

1702 Heinrich Nikolaus Gerber, German composer, VI Inventiones für das Clavier

1757 Marquis de Lafayette, French aristocrat, freemason, and military officer who volunteered to join the Continental Army, led by General George Washington, in the American Revolutionary War.

1766 John Dalton, Chemist, Physicist and Meteorologist

1788 Friedrich Wilhelm von Schadow, German painter

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