Alessandro Marcello (1669-1747)
Théodore Dubois (1837-1924)
Bernhard Heiden (1910-2000)
Niels Viggo Bentzon (1919-2000)
Stephen Paulus (1949-2014)
Carlo Curley (1952)
and
Robert Herrick (1591-1674)
Max Beerbohm (1872-1956)
Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986)
Oscar Hijuelos (1951-2013)
John Green (1977)
and from The Writer's Almanac:
It was on this day in 1456 that the first edition of the Gutenberg Bible
was bound and completed in Mainz, Germany. The Gutenberg Bible was the
first complete book printed with movable type. The press produced 180
copies of the Bible. Books had been printed on presses before, in China
and Korea, with wood and bronze type; but Gutenberg used metal type, and
made a press that could print many versions of the same text quickly.
His contributions to printing were huge: he created an oil-based
printing ink, he figured out how to cast individual pieces of type in
metal so that they could be reused, and he designed a functioning
printing press. But others before him had come up with similar ideas.
Probably the most important thing that Gutenberg did was to develop the
entire process of printing — he streamlined a system for assembling the
type into a full book and then folding the pages into folios, which were
then bound into an entire volume — and to do it all quickly. The
techniques that Gutenberg refined were used for hundreds of years, and
the publication of the Gutenberg Bible marked a turning point in the
availability of knowledge to regular people.
and from the Composers Datebook:
On this day in 1968, Czech conductor and composer Rafael Kubelik
launches an appeal to world musicians to boycott performances in the
five nations which invaded Czechoslovakia on August 20-21 until their
military forces evacuate the country. The appeal was joined by Igor
Stravinsky, Arthur Rubinstein, Yehudi Menuhin, Otto Klemperer, Bernard
Haitink, Claudio Arrau, and others.
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