THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:

“One could not be a successful scientist without realizing that, in contrast to the popular conception supported by newspapers and mothers of scientists, a goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid”

— James D. Watson

BIRTHDAYS:

1651 André Dacier, French classical scholar and translator (translations of “Oedipus” and “Electra” of Sophocles, Aristotle‘s “Poetics”), born in Castres, Kingdom of France

1660 Johann Kuhnau, Bohemian composer (Biblical Sonatas), kapellmeister, novelist, and lawyer, born in Geising, Kingdom of Bohemia. Tomba di Giacob (Biblical Sonata no. 6)

1672 Andre Cardinal Destouches, French composer (Les élémens). Callirohé

1483 Raphael, Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance.

1849 John William Waterhouse, British painter, born in Rome, Roman Republic.

1892 Donald Wills Douglas, American aircraft industrialist and engineer.

1928 James Watson, American molecular biologist, geneticist, and zoologist.

MISCELLANEOUS:

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