THOUGHT OF THE DAY:

“Put up in a place
where it is easy to see
the cryptic admonishment
T.T.T

When you feel how depressingly
slowly you climb
it’s well to remember that
Things Take Time.”

— Piet Hein

BIRTHDAYS:

1669 Arnold Boonen, Dutch portrait painter

1770 Ludwig van Beethoven, Beethoven is widely regarded as the most important musical figure in the transitional period between the Classical and Romantic eras in Western music, and as one of the greatest classical composers to ever live. Fidelio – Prisoners’ Chorus, and Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Op. 125 (1:18)

1775 Jane Austen, English novelist known primarily for her six novels, which implicitly interpret, critique, and comment upon the English landed gentry at the end of the 18th century.

1776 Johann Wilhelm Ritter, German physicist who discovered ultraviolet radiation.

1861 Antonio de La Gandara, French painter of the Belle Époque

1863 George Santayana, Spanish-American philosopher, poet and humanist.

1865 Victor Rousseau, Belgian sculptor

1882 Zoltán Kodály, Hungarian composer and ethnomusicologist, (Psalmus Hungaricus; Hary Janos). Budavári Te Deum (18:50)

1899 Noël Coward, English playwright, composer, director, actor, and singer, known for his wit, flamboyance, and what Time magazine called “a sense of personal style, a combination of cheek and chic, pose and poise”.

1905 Piet Hein, Danish polymath (mathematician, inventor, designer, writer and poet), often writing under the Old Norse pseudonym Kumbel, meaning “tombstone”.

1917 Arthur C. Clarke, British science fiction writer, science writer, futurist, inventor, undersea explorer, and television series host.

1928 Philip K. Dick, American sci-fi author (Hugo-1963; Blade Runner)

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