THOUGHT OF THE DAY:

“To agree without understanding is inane. To disagree without understanding is impudent.”

— Mortimer J. Adler

BIRTHDAYS:

1651 Johann Krieger, German organist and composer, born in the Free Imperial City of Nuremberg, Holy Roman Empire. Es ist mir von Natur gegeben, and Fantasie in d, and Vater unser im Himmelreich, and Minuet, and Giacona in G.

1865 Félix Vallotton, Swiss-French painter and writer.

1882 Arthur Eddington, English astronomer, physicist, and mathematician. He was also a philosopher of science and a popularizer of science.

1902 Mortimer J. Adler, American philosopher and author (Encyclopedia Brittanica)

1903 John von Neumann, Hungarian and American mathematician, physicist, computer scientist and engineer.

1922 Stan Lee, American comic book writer, editor, publisher and producer.

1942 Paul Horowitz, American physicist (META project, SETI).

1955 Liu Xiaobo, Chinese literary critic, human rights activist, philosopher and Nobel Peace Prize laureate who called for political reforms and was involved in campaigns to end Chinese Communist Party one-party rule in China.

1969 Linus Torvalds, Finnish software engineer who is the creator and lead developer of the Linux kernel. He also created the distributed version control system Git.

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