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Born in 1884 – Robert J. Flaherty, American director and producer.

Above: Allakariallak as Nanook in Flaherty’s 1922 film, Nanook of the North.

Born in 1974 – Miranda July, American actress, director, and screenwriter.

Above: July in her 2005 film, Me and You and Everyone We Know.

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In 1859, Oregon was admitted as the 33rd U.S. state.

Born in 1933 – Kim Novak, American actress.

Above: Novak in Alfred Hitchcock’s 1958 film, Vertigo.

Previously: Peter Gabriel

Born in 1857 – Eugène Atget, French photographer.

Above: Le Perreux – Tour de Marne, 1903.

Previously: Lev Shestov

Born in 1855 – Ellen Day Hale, American painter and author.

Above: Hale’s Self-portrait, 1885.

In 1964 Bob Dylan’s album The Times They Are A-Changin’ was released.

Come gather ‘round people wherever you roam
And admit that the waters around you have grown.
And accept it that soon you’ll be drenched to the bone.
And if your breath to you is worth savin’
Then you better start swimmin’ or you’ll sink like a stone
For the times they are a-changin’.

Come writers and critics who prophesize with your pen.
And keep your eyes wide the chance won’t come again.
And don’t speak too soon for the wheel’s still in spin.
And there’s no telling who that it’s namin’.
For the loser now will be later to win
Cause the times they are a-changin’.

Born in 1944 – Alice Walker, American writer.

“Look closely at the present you are constructing: it should look like the future you are dreaming.”

Born in 1834 – Dmitri Mendeleev, Russian chemist. Creator of the periodic table of elements.

“I saw in a dream a table where all elements fell into place as required. Awakening, I immediately wrote it down on a piece of paper, only in one place did a correction later seem necessary.”

Born in 1965 – Chris Rock, American comedian.

“I’ve never found myself in a hole so deep I couldn’t write my way out of it.”