THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:

“I would rather have questions that can’t be answered than answers that can’t be questioned.”

— Richard Feynman

BIRTHDAYS:

1772 Henri-Jean Rigel, French composer, music director. Symphony no.14 mov. 2&3

1791 Jan Václav Voříšek, Czech pianist, organist, and composer. Symphony in D major op. 23

1823 Alfred Stevens, Belgian painter.

1824 Jean-Léon Gérôme, French painter and sculptor.

1827 Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, French sculptor and painter.

1854 Ottmar Mergenthaler, German-American inventor (linotype machine).

1918 Richard Feynman, American theoretical physicist (Nobel Prize 1965; quantum electrodynamics).

MISCELLANEOUS:

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