THOUGHT OF THE DAY:

“Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct from ability, which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended.”

— Alfred North Whitehead

BIRTHDAYS:

1557 Alfonso Fontanelli, Italian composer (Ferrara school), born in Reggio nell’Emilia, Duchy of Modena and Reggio. Io parto e nel partire

1564 Galileo Galilei, Italian astronomer, physicist engineer, father of observational astronomy, modern-era classical physics, the scientific method, and modern science.

1705 Charles-André Van Loo, French Rococo painter.

1809 Cyrus McCormick, American inventor and businessman who founded the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company, which became part of the International Harvester Company in 1902.

1812 Charles Lewis Tiffany, American businessman and jeweler who founded New York City’s Tiffany & Co. in 1837.

1820 Susan B. Anthony, American social reformer and women’s rights activist who played a pivotal role in the women’s suffrage movement.

1826 George Johnstone Stoney, Irish physicist (introduced term electron).

1874 Ernest Shackleton, Anglo-Irish Antarctic explorer who led three British expeditions to the Antarctic.

1884 Alfred Carlton Gilbert, American inventor, athlete, magician, toy maker and businessman. As the founder of A. C. Gilbert Company, Gilbert was known for inventing the Erector Set and American Flyer Trains.

1861 Alfred North Whitehead, English mathematician and philosopher.

1923 Yelena Bonner, human rights activist in the former Soviet Union and wife of the physicist Andrei Sakharov.

1934 Niklaus Wirth, Swiss computer scientist who invented nine programming languages (Pascal, Oberon) and won the Turing Award in 1984.

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