THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:

“What can be added to the happiness of a person who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?”

— Adam Smith

BIRTHDAYS:

1644 Gabriël Grupello, Flemish Baroque sculptor.

1650 Richard Brakenburgh, Dutch Golden Age painter.

1694 Daniel Gran, Austrian painter.

1733 – Hubert Robert, French painter.

1783 William Sturgeon, English physicist and inventor (invented the electromagnet and electric motor).

1813 Richard Wagner, German composer. Tristan & Isolde – Liebestod, and Götterdämmerung, and Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg – Vorspiel

1814 Amalia Lindegren, Swedish painter.

1820 Worthington Whittredge, American painter.

1833 Félix Bracquemond, French painter and etcher.

1859 – Arthur Conan Doyle, British writer and novelist (creator of Sherlock Holmes).

MISCELLANEOUS:

OUR DISTANT COUSINS FROM THE SEA. A Beluga Whale Showed a Sign of Intelligence Once Thought Unique to Humans