THOUGHT OF THE DAY:

”We must operate with partial knowledge, and be provisionally content with probabilities.”

― Ariel Durant

BIRTHDAYS:

1697 Jean-Marie Leclair l’aîné (the elder), French violinist and Baroque composer, Trio Sonata in D Minor, Op. 4, No. 1

1727 Anne Robert Jacques Turgot, French economist and statesman.

1754 Asmus Jakob Carstens, Danish-German Neoclassical painter.

1822 August von Pettenkofen, Austrian outdoor painter.

1866 Léon Bakst, Russian painter and scene and costume designer.

1873 Carl Eldh, Swedish artist and sculptor.

1888 Max Steiner, Austrian-American film score composer and conductor. Gone With The Wind

1894 Dimitri Tiomkin, Russian-American film score composer and conductor. Giant (Opening Credits)

1898 Ariel Durant, American researcher and writer, known primarily for her collaborative work with her husband, Will Durant, on “The Story of Civilization.”

1900 Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, British-born American astronomer and astrophysicist. In her 1925 doctoral thesis she proposed that stars were composed primarily of hydrogen and helium.

1911 Bel Kaufman, American author (Up the Down Staircase)

1969 John Scalzi, American writer (Old Man’s War)

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