THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:

“Come grow old with me. The best is yet to be.”

— Wordsworth

BIRTHDAYS:

1613 Gerrit Dou, Dutch baroque painter.

1622 Louise Hollandine, Abbess and painter.

1694 Coelestin Praelisauer, German organist, composer, and monk, baptized in Kötzting, Electorate of Bavaria, Holy Roman Empire.

1699 Andreas Benedikt Praelisauer, German choirmaster and composer, baptized in Kötzting, Electorate of Bavaria, Holy Roman Empire.

1727 Henri Hardouin, French composer and maître de musique (Cathédrale de Reims), born in Grandpré, France.

1740 Haym Salomon, Polish-born American merchant best known for his actions during the American Revolution, where he was one of the prime financiers to the Continental Congress.

1770 William Wordsworth, English Romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped to launch the Romantic Age in English literature with their joint publication Lyrical Ballads (1798).

1841 Jozef Neuhuys [Joseph Hendrikus Neuhuys], Dutch painter.

1920 Ravi Shankar, Indian sitarist and composer.

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