THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:

“Liberty and responsibility are inseparable.”

— F.A. Hayek

BIRTHDAYS:

1697 Jean-Marie Leclair l’aîné, French violinist and Baroque composer. A2 Allegro（Third movement from Sonata in B minor, Op.5 No.5, and Violin Sonata no.3 in D Major, and Sarabande et tambourin (3d sonata from the 4th book of sonatas for violin and basso continuo)

1754 Asmus Jakob Carstens, Danish-German Neoclassical painter.

1760 Claude-Joseph Rouget de Lisle, French composer (La Marseillaise).

1788 Augustin-Jean Fresnel, French physicist and optics pioneer (proved wave theory of light, invented the catadioptric Fresnel lens).

1866 Léon Bakst, Russian painter, scene and costume designer.

1873 Carl Eldh, Swedish sculptor.

1888 Max Steiner, Austrian-American film score composer (King Kong, Casablanca, Gone With the Wind). Tara’s Theme from Gone With The Wind

1898 Ariel Durant, American writer, historian, and researcher best known for her lifelong collaboration with her husband, philosopher Will Durant, on the monumental eleven-volume series The Story of Civilization (1935–1975), a comprehensive narrative of world history from ancient times to the Age of Napoleon.

1900 Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, British-American astronomer and astrophysicist (proposed stars are primarily hydrogen and helium).

1911 Bel Kaufman, American author (Up the Down Staircase).

MISCELLANEOUS:

ARE THE ETRUSCANS 10 FEET TALL? US exhibition unearths the Etruscans and their enduring cultural influence