Born in 1855 – Eugene V. Debs, American socialist, political activist, and trade unionist.

“Never mind what others may say, or think, or do. Stand erect in the majesty of your own manhood. Listen for just once to the throbbing of your own heart, and you will hear that it is beating quickstep marches to Camp Freedom. Stand erect! Lift your bowed form from the earth! The dust has long enough borne the impress of your knees. Stand up and see how long a shadow you cast in the sunlight! Hold up your head and avow your convictions, and then accept, as becomes a man, the consequences of your acts!”

Also, Art Garfunkel and Bill Walton.

Born in 1867 – Pierre Bonnard, French painter.

Above: Dining Room in the Country (1913)

Born in 1848 – Jules Bastien-Lepage, French painter.

Above: October (1878)

Also: English painter L. S. Lowry, here and here.

In 1881, a thirty-second gunfight between lawmen led by Virgil Earp and a group of outlaws called the Cowboys occurred at the O.K. Corral at about 3:00 p.m. in Tombstone, Arizona.

Above: Still from John Ford’s 1946 film about the feud, My Darling Clementine.

Also, born in 1959, Paul Farmer

Born in 1881 – Pablo Picasso, Spanish artist.

Above: Detail from Mother and Child (1921), on display in the Modern Wing (third floor) of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Previously, Picasso here and here.

In 1260, Chartres Cathedral was dedicated in the presence of King Louis IX of France.

Above: Lancet windows under the west rose window, depicting the genealogy of Christ; the Life of Christ; and the Passion of Christ.

Also, born in 1923, Denise Levertov.

Born in 1772 – Samuel Taylor Coleridge, English poet, philosopher, and critic.

“If a man could pass through Paradise in a dream, and have a flower presented to him as a pledge that his soul had really been there, and if he found that flower in his hand when he awake — Aye! and what then?”

Also: Ursula K. Le Guin

Born in 1859 – John Dewey, American psychologist, philosopher, proponent of schooling.

“Now the change which is coming into our education is the shifting of the center of gravity. It is a change, a revolution, not unlike that introduced by Copernicus when the astronomical center shifted from the earth to the sun. In this case the child becomes the sun about which the appliances of education revolve; he is the center about which they are organized.”

Born in 1828 – Leo Tolstoy, Russian writer and moralist.

Above: Tolstoy with his daughter Aleksandra in 1901.

Born in 1932 – Patsy Cline, American singer-songwriter and pianist.