“The most important tactic in an argument next to being right is to leave an escape hatch for your opponent so that he can gracefully swing over to your side without an embarrassing loss of face.”

― Stephen Jay Gould

1588 Nicholas Lanier, English composer. No more shall meads (Love’s Constancy)

1645 Romeyn de Hooghe, Dutch painter and goldsmith

1659 Henry Purcell, English organist and composer. Rondeau from Abdelazer (Z570), and Dido’s Lament (Dido and Aeneas), and Abdelazer Suite

1714 Niccolò Jommelli, Italian composer. Sonata a quatre mains sur un Clavecin, Allegro. Firrincieli, Tonda – Harpsichord for Two

1751 Bartolomeo Campagnoli, Italian violinist and composer. Caprice #1 for Solo Viola, and Caprice #2 for Solo Viola

1941 Stephen Jay Gould, American paleontologist, evolutionary biologist, and historian of science.

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