“Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.”

― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

1660 Daniel Defoe, English writer, trader, journalist, pamphleteer and spy

1682 Theodor Christlieb Reinhold, German composer. sonata per oboe e basso

1819 Clara Schumann, Pianist and Composer. Scherzo No.2 in C Minor

1857 Milton S. Hershey, American chocolatier, businessman, and philanthropist.

1886 Alain LeRoy Locke, African-American writer and philosopher “Father of the Harlem Renaissance”

1938 Judith Martin, American author, journalist and columnist (Miss Manners)

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