Born in 1981 – Troy Polamalu, American football player.

Born in 1918 – André Bazin, French film critic and theorist.

“Photography can strip from the world that spiritual dust and grime with which our eyes have covered it.”

In 1397, Geoffrey Chaucer told The Canterbury Tales for the first time at the court of Richard II. 

Above: A woodcut, Pilgrims at Table, from William Caxton’s second edition of The Canterbury Tales, printed in 1483

Born in 1953 – Peter Garrett, Australian singer-songwriter and politician.

Have a listen: Burnie, by Midnight Oil.

Born in 1452 – Leonardo da Vinci, Italian painter, sculptor, architect, inventor, and engineer.

Born in 1941 – Pete Rose, American baseball player and manager.

Born in 1883 – Imogen Cunningham, American photographer.

Above: The Unmade Bed, 1957

Born in 1869 – Gustav Vigeland, Norwegian sculptor.

Above: From a collection of Vigeland sculptures in Frogner Park, Oslo.

Born in 1929 – Max von Sydow, Swedish-French actor.

Above: Von Sydow in Ingmar Bergman’s film, The Virgin Spring.

Born in 1933 – René Burri, Swiss photographer and journalist.

Above: Child, Patrocínio, Brazil. 1977