THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:

“In God we trust; all others must bring data.”

― W. Edwards Deming

BIRTHDAYS:

1425 Alesso Baldovinetti, Italian Renaissance artist.

1644 William Penn, an English Quaker proprietor, theologian, and colonist who founded the Province of Pennsylvania as a proprietary colony chartered by King Charles II in 1681 to settle a debt owed to his late father, Admiral Sir William Penn.

1853 Ciprian Porumbescu, Romanian composer). Balada

1873 José Serrano Simeón, Spanish composer of zarzuelas. La canción del Olvido, and Pasodoble Fallero

1900 W. Edwards Deming, American statistician, engineer, professor, author, lecturer, and management consultant renowned for pioneering statistical quality control methods that transformed post-World War II Japanese industry and laid foundational principles for modern total quality management.

1906 Hannah Arendt, a political philosopher of German-Jewish origin who developed key concepts in political theory, including analyses of totalitarianism, the vita activa, and the conditions of human freedom and plurality.

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