THOUGHT OF THE DAY:

“The resentful man is a human with the capacity for affection so poorly developed that his understanding for the motives of others very nearly does not exist.”

— Richard Condon, The Manchurian Candidate

BIRTHDAYS:

1548 Cornelis Ketel, Dutch portrait painter and poet.

1578 Adam Elsheimer, German painter, cartoonist and etcher.

1657 Giuseppe Ottavio Pitoni, Italian Baroque composer, organist, and maestro di cappella (Basilica of San Marco. 1677-1743), born in Rieti, Papal States. Cantate Domino

1844 Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Russian composer. Russian Easter Overture op. 36

1858 Rudolf Diesel, German inventor and mechanical engineer who invented the Diesel engine, which burns Diesel fuel; both are named after him.

1866 Dumitru Kiriac-Georgescu, Romanian composer known for sacred choral works, and ethnomusicologist. Morarul, and Cantus Redivivus

1915 Richard Condon, American author (The Manchurian Candidate),

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