THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:

“We are made of starstuff.”

— Carl Sagan

BIRTHDAYS:

1620 Isabella Leonarda, composer. Sonata 10

1633 Sebastian Knüpfer, composer. Die Turteltaube lässt sich hören, and Domine ne in furore, and Erforsche mich Gott

1644 Juan Bautista José Cabanilles, composer. Gallardas, and Pasacalles, and Batalla Imperial

1648 Johann Schelle, composer. Barmherzig und gnädig ist der Herr

1766 John Dalton, physicist and chemist (atomic theory)

1788 Friedrich Wilhelm von Schadow, painter

1805 Horatio Greenough, sculptor and writer

1919 Wilson Greatbatch, inventor (cardiac pacemaker)

MISCELLANEOUS:

CARL SAGAN, PLEASE CALL YOUR OFFICE. Stars forge and deliver the elements that make up your body — and scientists may finally know how.

WHAT A MARVELOUS IDEA! Mozart Die Zauberflöte | Children Version | Wiener Staats

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