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Spoleto, 2007

Ariodante - Ann Hallenberg
Ginevra - Laura Cherici
Dalinda - Marta Vandoni Iorio
Polinesso - Mary- Elen Nesi
Re di Scozia - Carlo Lepore
Lurcanio - Zachary Stains
Odoardo - Vittorio Prato

Il Complesso Barocco
Alan CURTIS

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1835 – The United States national debt is zero for the only time.

1867 – African American men are granted the right to vote in Washington, D.C.

1889 – Herman Hollerith is issued US patent #395,791 for the 'Art of Applying Statistics' — his punched card calculator.

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Mona Lisa or La Gioconda (1503–05/07)‍

—‌Louvre, Paris, France

On January 8, 1963

– Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa is exhibited in the United States for the first time,

at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.

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1973 – Soviet space mission Luna 21 is launched.

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#FelizAniversário

#FelizCumpleaños

#HappyBirthday

#JoyeuxAnniversaire

#BuonCompleanno

#Nacimientos

1589 – Ivan Gundulić, Croatian poet and playwright (d. 1638)

1601 – Baltasar Gracián, Spanish priest and author (d. 1658)

1638 – Elisabetta Sirani, Italian painter (d. 1665)

1680 – Sebastiano Conca, Italian painter (d. 1764)

1735 – John Carroll, American archbishop, founder of Georgetown University (d. 1815)

1792 – Lowell Mason, American composer and educator (d. 1872)

1812 – Sigismond Thalberg, Swiss pianist and composer (d. 1871)

1824 – Wilkie Collins, English novelist, playwright, and short story writer (d. 1889)

1824 – Francisco González Bocanegra, Mexican poet and composer (d. 1861)*

1830 – Albert Bierstadt, German-American painter and educator (d. 1902)

1830 – Hans von Bülow, German pianist and composer (d. 1894)

1836 – Lawrence Alma-Tadema, Dutch-English painter and academic (d. 1912)

1852 – James Milton Carroll, American pastor and author (d. 1931)

1860 – Emma Booth, English author (d. 1903)

1862 – Frank Nelson Doubleday, American publisher, founded the Doubleday Publishing Company (d. 1934)

1865 – Winnaretta Singer, American philanthropist (d. 1943)

1867 – Emily Greene Balch, American economist and author, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1961)*

1879 – Charles Bryant, English-American actor and director (d. 1948)

1881 – Linnie Marsh Wolfe, American librarian and author (d. 1945)

1883 – Pavel Filonov, Russian painter and poet (d. 1941)

1885 – A. J. Muste, Dutch-American pastor and activist (d. 1967)

1891 – Walther Bothe, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1957)

1891 – Storm Jameson, English journalist and author (d. 1986)

1891 – Bronislava Nijinska, Russian dancer and choreographer (d. 1972)*

1896 – Jaromír Weinberger, Czech-American composer and academic (d. 1967)

1897 – Dennis Wheatley, English soldier and author (d. 1977)

1900 – Merlyn Myer, Australian philanthropist (d. 1982)

1905 – Carl Gustav Hempel, German philosopher from the Vienna and the Berlin Circle (d. 1997)*

1905 – Giacinto Scelsi, Italian composer and poet (d. 1988)

1906 – Serge Poliakoff, Russian-French painter (d. 1969)

1909 – Ashapoorna Devi, Indian author and poet (d. 1995)

1909 – Willy Millowitsch, German actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 1999)

1909 – Evelyn Wood, American author and educator (d. 1995)

1912 – José Ferrer, Puerto Rican-American actor and director (d. 1992)

1917 – Peter Matthew Hillsman Taylor, American novelist, short story writer, and playwright (d. 1994)

1920 – Richard Benedict, American actor and director (d. 1984)

1922 – Jan Nieuwenhuys, Dutch painter (d. 1986)

1923 – Giorgio Tozzi, American opera singer and actor (d. 2011)

1923 – Joseph Weizenbaum, German-American computer scientist and author (d. 2008)

1924 – Benjamin Lees, Chinese-American soldier and composer (d. 2010)

1925 – Mohan Rakesh, Indian author and playwright (d. 1972)

1926 – Evelyn Lear, American operatic soprano (d. 2012)

1926 – Kelucharan Mohapatra, Indian dancer and choreographer (d. 2004)

1926 – Hanae Mori, Japanese fashion designer*

1927 – Charles Tomlinson, English poet and academic (d. 2015)

1928 – Gaston Miron, Canadian poet and author (d. 1996)

1933 – Nolan Miller, American fashion and jewelry designer (d. 2012)*

1933 – Jean-Marie Straub, French director and screenwriter

1934 – Alexandra Ripley, American author (d. 2004)

1935 – Lewis H. Lapham, American publisher, founded Lapham's Quarterly

1936 – Zdeněk Mácal, Czech-American conductor

1938 – Yevgeny Nesterenko, Russian opera singer and educator

1939 – Carolina Herrera, Venezuelan-American fashion designer*

1943 – Charles Murray, American political scientist and author

1944 – Terry Brooks, American lawyer and author

1945 – Nancy Bond, American author and academic

1947 – Don Bendell, American rancher and author

1947 – David Gates, American journalist and novelist

1948 – Gillies MacKinnon, Scottish director and screenwriter

1951 – Franz Pachl, German chess player and composer

1952 – Vladimir Feltsman, Russian-American pianist and educator

1957 – Nacho Duato, Spanish dancer and choreographer*

1957 – David Lang, American composer and academic

1958 – Rey Misterio, Sr., Mexican wrestler, trainer, and actor*

1960 – Lee Tomboulian, American pianist, accordion player, composer, and educator

1964 – Marc Quinn, English sculptor

1969 – J. Hunter Johnson, American game designer, author, and translator

1975 – Harris Jayaraj, Indian composer and producer

1983 – Chris Masters, American wrestler and actor*

#Obituario RecordarANuestrosMuertos

EsDarlesVidaEternaEnNuestrosCorazones.

EnPazDescanse:

871 – Bagsecg, Viking leader

1337 – Giotto, Italian painter and architect, designed Scrovegni Chapel and Giotto's Campanile (b. 1266)

1570 – Philibert de l'Orme, French sculptor and architect, designed the Château d'Anet (b. 1510)

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Portrait, 1636

Galileo Galilei

15 February 1564

– 8 January 1642

Italian physicist, mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher

by Giusto Sustermans

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1713 – Arcangelo Corelli, Italian violinist and composer (b. 1653)*

1775 – John Baskerville, English printer and type designer (b. 1706)

1825 – Eli Whitney, American engineer and theorist, invented the cotton gin (b. 1765)

1853 – Mihály Bertalanits, Slovene-Hungarian poet and educator (b. 1788)

1878 – Nikolay Nekrasov, Russian poet and critic (b. 1821)

1883 – Miska Magyarics, Slovene-Hungarian poet (b. 1825)

1896 – Paul Verlaine, French poet (b. 1844)

1916 – Rembrandt Bugatti, Italian sculptor (b. 1884)

1918 – Johannes Pääsuke, Estonian photographer and director (b. 1892)*

1925 – George Bellows, American painter (b.1882)

1934 – Andrei Bely, Russian novelist, poet, and critic (b. 1880)

1935 – Rauf Yekta, Turkish musicologist and author (b. 1871)

1938 – Johnny Gruelle, American author and illustrator (b. 1880)

1943 – Richard Hillary, Australian pilot and author (b. 1919)

1945 – Karl Ernst Krafft, Swiss astrologer and author (b. 1900)

1954 – Eduard Wiiralt, Estonian-French painter and illustrator (b. 1898)

1958 – Mary Colter, American architect, designed the Desert View Watchtower (b. 1869)

1963 – Kay Sage, American painter (b. 1898)

1970 – Georges Guibourg, French actor, singer, and playwright (b. 1891)

1972 – Kenneth Patchen, American poet and author (b. 1911)

1975 – Richard Tucker, American tenor (b. 1913)

1982 – Grégoire Aslan, Swiss-English actor and screenwriter (b. 1908)

1986 – Pierre Fournier, French cellist and educator (b. 1906)*

1990 – Bernard Krigstein, American illustrator (b. 1919)

1996 – Metin Göktepe, Turkish photographer and journalist (b. 1968)

1996 – Howard Taubman, American author and critic (b. 1907)

1997 – Melvin Calvin, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1911)

1998 – Michael Tippett, English composer and conductor (b. 1905)

2002 – Alexander Prokhorov, Australian-Russian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1916)

2002 – Dave Thomas, American businessman and philanthropist, founded Wendy's (b. 1932)

2003 – Ron Goodwin, English composer and conductor (b. 1925)

2007 – Iwao Takamoto, American animator, director, and producer (b. 1925)*

2012 – John Madin, English architect, designed the Birmingham Central Library (b. 1924)

2012 – Alexis Weissenberg, Bulgarian-French pianist and educator (b. 1929)

2013 – Kenojuak Ashevak, Canadian sculptor and illustrator (b. 1927)

2013 – Jeanne Manford, American educator and activist, co-founded PFLAG (b. 1920)

2013 – Alasdair Milne, Indian-English director and producer (b. 1930)

2014 – Madeline Gins, American poet and architect (b. 1941)

2017 – Nicolai Gedda, Swedish operatic tenor (b. 1925)

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#observances

Typing Day (International observance)

also

International Typing Day

World Typing Day

co-organized by

the STC (Speed Typing Contest) Team from JCI (Junior Chamber International) Mines

and Team TAC (Typo Auto Corrector)

to promote speed, accuracy and efficiency in written communication among the public.

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