Born in 1627 – Samuel Dirksz van Hoogstraten, Dutch painter.

Above: Still Life,  1664.

Previously: James Baldwin

Born in 1942 – Jerry Garcia, American singer-songwriter and guitarist.

Pictured above c. 1962.

Born in 1958 – Bill Berry, American drummer and songwriter.

Born in 1960 – Richard Linklater, American filmmaker.

Above: Still from Linklater’s 1991 film, Slacker.

Born in 1805 – Alexis de Tocqueville, French historian and philosopher.

“As one digs deeper into the national character of the Americans, one sees that they have sought the value of everything in this world only in the answer to this single question: how much money will it bring in?”

Born in 1609 – Judith Leyster, Dutch painter.

Above: Detail of Leyster’s painting Man Offering Money to a Woman or The Proposition. (1631)

On this day in 1940, Bugs Bunny made his debut in the Warner Bros. animated cartoon “A Wild Hare.”

Born in 1875 – Carl Jung, Swiss psychiatrist and psychotherapist .

“Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.”

Born in 1958 – Thurston Moore, American guitarist and singer-songwriter.

Listen to Teenage Riot by Sonic Youth.

Born in 1927 – Alex Katz, American painter and sculptor.

Above: Katz Cutout, Coleman Pond (1975).