THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:

“From the stars has come the matter of our world and of our bodies, and it is to the stars that we will someday return.”
― T. A. Heppenheimer

BIRTHDAYS:

1593 Gottfried Scheidt, composer. Wär Gott nicht mit uns diese Zeit, and Wo Gott zum Haus nicht gibt sein Gunst

1653 Benedict Schultheiss, composer. Courante aus Muth- und Geist-Ermuntrender Clavier-Lust, and Herr Jesu Christ, wahr Mensch

1819 Théodore Chassériau, painter

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