THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:

“A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.”

— Thomas Mann

BIRTHDAYS:

1599 Diego Velázquez, Spanish painter (Las Meninas).

1606 Pierre Corneille, French poet and dramatist (El Cid).

1625 Domenico Guidi, Italian sculptor.

1661 Giacomo Antonio Perti, Italian composer. Dixit Dominus a 8 voci pieno

1756 John Trumbull, American painter (Declaration of Independence).

1799 Alexander Pushkin, Russian poet, writer, and author (Eugene Onegin).

1875 Thomas Mann, German novelist (The Magic Mountain, Nobel 1929).

1903 Aram Khachaturian, Armenian composer (Gayane, “Sabre Dance”). Waltz from Masquerade

1933 Heinrich Rohrer, Swiss physicist (tunneling microscope, Nobel 1986).

MISCELLANEOUS:

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