Born in 1932 – Louis Malle, French-American director, producer, and screenwriter.

Above: Malle and actor Benoît Ferreux  go over a scene in Le souffle au coeur.

Born in 1861 – Andrei Ryabushkin, Russian painter.

Above: His 1895 painting, Seventeenth-Century Moscow Street on a Public Holiday.

In 1628,  Protestant French Huguenots surrendered to King Louis XIII and the Catholics at The Siege of La Rochelle, which had lasted for 14 months.

Pictured: Cardinal Richelieu at the Siege of La Rochelle, by Henri Motte, 1881.

Lou Reed died a year ago today.

“There’s a bit of magic in everything, and then some loss to even things out.”

Born in 1959 – Paul Farmer, American anthropologist and physician.

“…a social justice approach should be central to medicine and public health. This could be very simple: the well should take care of the sick.”

Born in 1881: Spanish painter and sculptor, Pablo Picasso.

La Soupe, 1903.

Annie Edson Taylor was an American adventurer who, on her 63rd birthday, October 24, 1901, became the first person to survive a trip over Niagara Falls in a barrel.

It’s the Feast Day of Anicius Manlius Severinus Boëthius, writer of The Consolation of Philosophy.

Born in 1982 – Heath Miller, tight end for the Pittsburgh Steelers.

Born in 1929: Ursula K. Le Guin, American author.

“When you light a candle, you also cast a shadow.”