THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:

“Books are no more threatened by Kindle than stairs by elevators.”

— Stephen Fry

BIRTHDAYS:

1591 Robert Herrick, English poet (“Gather ye rosebuds while ye may”)

1683 Meinrad Spiess, German sacred music composer, Benedictine priest, and music theorist. Kyrie und Dies irae aus der Missa pro Defunctis

1816 – Daniel Gooch, English engineer (laid first successful transatlantic cables; inventor/engineer)

1817 Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy, Russian novelist, poet, and playwright (Prince Serebrenni)

1957 Stephen Fry, English comedian, writer, and actor

MISCELLANEOUS:

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