THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:

“If the names are unknown knowledge of the things also perishes.”

— Carl Linnaeus

BIRTHDAYS:

1707 Carl Linnaeus, Swedish botanist, explorer, and the Father of Taxonomy

1710 François Gaspard Adam, French sculptor.

1741 Andrea Lucchesi, Italian organist and composer. Sonata I in Do (C maj)

1754 Andrea Appiani, Italian royal painter.

1834 Carl Heinrich Bloch, Danish painter (Painter).

1848 Otto Lilienthal, German pioneer aviator and glider inventor/explorer.

1908 John Bardeen, American physicist and co-inventor of the transistor.

1921 James Blish, American sci-fi author.

MISCELLANEOUS:

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