Born in 1886 – Edward Weston, American photographer.

Above: Tres Ollas (Oaxaca Pots)

Previously: Weston, here and here.

Born in 1910 – Akira Kurosawa, Japanese director, producer and screenwriter.

Above: Still from Kurosawa’s 1954 film The Seven Samurai.

Previously: Kurosawa here and here.

Also: Michael Nyman

Born in 1728 – Anton Raphael Mengs, German painter and theorist.

Above: Helios as Personification of Midday and Diana as Personification of the Night, c. 1765

Born in 1685 – Johann Sebastian Bach, German composer and musician of the Baroque period.

“Now there is music from which a man can learn something.”

–W. A. Mozart (on hearing Bach motets in Leipzig)

Also: Éric Rohmer

Born in 1840 – Illarion Pryanishnikov, Russian painter.

Above: French retreat in 1812 (1874) and Easter procession (1893)

Also: Fred Rogers

In 1962 Bob Dylan’s self-titled debut album was released by Columbia Records.

Born in 1874 – Nikolai Berdyaev, Russian religious philosopher.

“The view of pragmatism, that truth is what is useful for life, is quite erroneous. Truth may be dangerous to everyday life. Christian truth might even become very dangerous–might cause the collapse of nations and civilizations. Consequently, pure Christian truth has been distorted and adapted to man’s everyday life; the work of Christ has been corrected, as Dostoevsky’s Grand Inquisitor says. But if we believe in the power of Truth unto salvation, this is in quite another sense. It is in relation to truth that division is made between what is God’s and what is Caesar’s, between spirit and the world.”

Previously: Berdyaev, here and here.

Born in 1856 – Mikhail Vrubel, Russian painter.

Above: Tombstone Crying, 1887

Also: Bayard Rustin

Born in 1822 – Rosa Bonheur, French painter and sculptor.

Above: Ploughing in the Nivernais, 1849

Also: In 1968, American troops killed between 347 and 500 unarmed Vietnamese villagers in the My Lai Massacre.

Born in 1972 – Mike Tomlin, American football player and coach.

Also: Ry Cooder