Born in 1968 – Gary Payton, American basketball player.

Born in 1882 – Edward Hopper, American artist.

Above: Early Sunday Morning, (1930)

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Born in 1955 – Béla Tarr, Hungarian director, producer, and screenwriter.

Above: Still from the opening sequence of Tarr’s film Werckmeister Harmonies. (2000)

Born in 1591 – Anne Hutchinson, English Puritan preacher.

When put on trial for “slandering the ministers” and “troubling the peace of the commonwealth and churches,” she said:

“You have no power over my body, neither can you do me any harm—for I am in the hands of the eternal Jehovah, my Saviour, I am at his appointment, the bounds of my habitation are cast in heaven, no further do I esteem of any mortal man than creatures in his hand, I fear none but the great Jehovah, which hath foretold me of these things, and I do verily believe that he will deliver me out of our hands. Therefore take heed how you proceed against me—for I know that, for this you go about to do to me, God will ruin you and your posterity and this whole state.“

Born in 1960 – Atom Egoyan, Canadian filmmaker.

Above: Still from Egoyan’s 1993 film Calendar.

Born in 1933 – Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Russian poet and playwright.

“He who is conceived in a cage yearns for the cage.”

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Born in 1958 – Wong Kar-wai, Chinese director, producer, and screenwriter.

Above: Still from the film In the Mood For Love (2000).

In 1769 – Father Junípero Serra founds California’s first mission, Mission San Diego de Alcalá. Over the following decades, it would grow into the city of San Diego.

Born in 1918 – Ingmar Bergman, Swedish filmmaker.

“…art lost its basic creative drive the moment it was separated from worship. It severed an umbilical cord and now lives its own sterile life, generating and degenerating itself. In former days the artist remained unknown and his work was to the glory of God. He lived and died without being more or less important than other artisans; ‘eternal values,’ ‘immortality’ and ‘masterpiece’ were terms not applicable in his case. The ability to create was a gift. In such a world flourished invulnerable assurance and natural humility. Today the individual has become the highest form and the greatest bane of artistic creation.“

Above: Bergman with his wife, Kabi Laretei, and their son, Daniel.

On this day in 1793 – Journalist and French revolutionary Jean-Paul Marat was assassinated in his bathtub by Charlotte Corday, a member of an opposing political faction.

Above:: Jacques-Louis David’s painting, The Death of Marat.