Born in 1863 – Edvard Munch, Norwegian painter and illustrator.

Above: Munch’s 1894 painting, Melancholy.

Born in 1996 – Hailee Steinfeld, American actress.

Above: Steinfeld, during the filming of the Joel and Ethan Coen’s 2010 film, True Grit.

Photograph by Jeff Bridges.

In 1884, Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was published.

“All kings is mostly rapscallions, as fur as I can make out.”

Born in 1928 – Noam Chomsky, American linguist and political theorist.

“If we don’t believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don’t believe in it at all.”

Previously: Tom Waits

Born in 1935 – Woody Allen, American filmmaker and humorist.

Above: Allen and Death in his 1975 film, Love and Death.

Death: You’re an interesting young man. We’ll meet again.
Young Boris: Don’t bother.
Death: It’s no bother.

Born in 1943 – Terrence Malick, American director, producer, and screenwriter.

Above: Richard Gere, Linda Manz, and Brooke Adams in Malick’s 1978 film, Days of Heaven.

Born in 1918 – Madeleine L’Engle, American author and poet.

“Jesus was not a theologian. He was God who told stories.”

Born in 1894 – Katherine Milhous, American author and illustrator.

Born in 1864 – Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, French painter and illustrator.

Above: The Laundress (1889)

Born in 1915 – Marc Simont, French-American illustrator.

Above: Text and Illustration from Simont’s book, The Stray Dog (2001).