THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:

“The aeroplane is tragically unsuited for ocean service.”

— Hugo Eckener

BIRTHDAYS:

787 Albumasar (Abu Ma‘shar al-Balkhi), Persian astrologer

1556 Philipp Nicolai, poet and composer

1560 Hieronymus Praetorius, composer

1567 Girolamo Giacobbi, composer

1589 Pietro Antonio Tamburini, composer

1699 Christoph Gottlieb Schröter, composer (and inventor of the tangent piano). Vater unser im Himmelreich

1737 Anton Losenko, painter.

1848 William Harnett, painter.

1861 – Almroth Wright, bacteriologist (scientist)

1865 Alexander Glazunov, composer. Les saisons – L’Automne

1868 Hugo Eckener, inventor

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