THOUGHT OF THE DAY:

“What are you to do with the people who are cursed with both hearts and brains?”

— Dorothy L. Sayers

BIRTHDAYS:

1681 Georg Philipp Telemann, German late Baroque composer, and multi-instrumentalist, born in Magdeburg, Margraviate of Brandenburg, Holy Roman Empire. Ouverture – Suite “La Lyra” TWV 55 Es3, and Sonata I in Si minore TWV 40:141

1693 John Harrison, English carpenter and clockmaker who invented the marine chronometer, a long-sought-after device for solving the problem of how to calculate longitude while at sea.

1733 Joseph Priestley, English chemist, Unitarian, natural philosopher, separatist theologian, grammarian, multi-subject educator and classical liberal political theorist.

1782 Orest Kiprensky, Russian painter.

1820 Edmond Becquerel, French physicist who studied the solar spectrum, magnetism, electricity and optics (photovoltaic effect).

1874 Harry Houdini, Hungarian-American escapologist, illusionist, and stunt performer noted for his escape acts.

1874 Luigi Einaudi, Italian economist and politician (1st president of Italy 1948-55).

1907 Lydia Chukovskaya, Soviet writer and dissident (Andrei Sakharov Prize for Writer’s Civic Courage), born in Helsingfors, Duchy of Finland.

1954 Irina Ratushinskaya, Soviet dissident poet (Beyond the Limit), born in Odessa, Ukraine, Soviet Union.

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