Born in 1903 – Mark Rothko, Latvian-American painter.
“Silence is so accurate.”
Images
Released in 1991: Nirvana’s Nevermind.
Born in 1957 – Nick Cave, Australian singer-songwriter and author.
Video: Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds perform I Need You.
Born in 1934 – Leonard Cohen, Canadian singer-songwriter and poet.
Born in 1902 – Stevie Smith, English author and poet.
Video: Vic Chesnutt sings Stevie Smith’s poem, “One of Many”.
In 1995, The Washington Post and The New York Times published the Unabomber’s manifesto, written by Ted Kaczynski.
“The leftist is antagonistic to the concept of competition because, deep inside, he feels like a loser.”
“The conservatives are just taking the average man for a sucker, exploiting his resentment of Big Government to promote the power of Big Business.”
Above: Kaczynski in Montana, early 1970s.
Therese Neumann, German mystic and stigmatic who professed to have consumed no food other than The Holy Eucharist, nor to have drunk any water, from 1926 until her death (on this day) in 1962.
Born in 1974 – Rasheed Wallace, American basketball player and coach.
“Both teams played hard.”
Born in 1876 – Sherwood Anderson, American novelist and short story writer.
“I go about looking at horses and cattle. They eat grass, make love, work when they have to, bear their young. I am sick with envy of them.”
Born in 1935 – Arvo Pärt, Estonian composer.
“I have discovered that it is enough when a single note is beautifully played.”
Number 5 