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“We carry within us the wonders we seek without us.”

✒️ Sir English polymath, philosopher, and writer, was 19 October 1605.

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Luca Giordano (18 Oct 1634 - 3 Jan 1705), Italian artist.

"The most celebrated and prolific Neapolitan painter of the late 17th century."

🎨 'The Annunciation,' 1672. The Met.
🎨 'The Flight into Egypt,' n.d. The Met.

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🎨 American sculptor (1974 Akston Award, 1966 Brandeis), was 18 October 1922.

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🎨 American mural painter, was 18 October 1906.

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“I like the immaterial world. I like to live among thoughts and images of the past and the possible, and even of the impossible, now and then.”

Poems: https://t.co/HzitQFCaO8]

✒️ English poet and novelist, was 18 October 1785.

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William O. Douglas (16 Oct 1898 - 19 Jan 1980), public official, legal educator, associate justice of U.S. Supreme Court.

"Known for his consistent and outspoken defense of civil liberties and progressive views."

📷 Bachrach/Getty.

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Noah Webster (16 Oct 1758 - 28 May 1843), American lexicographer.

"Known for his American Spelling Book (1783) and his American Dictionary of the English Language, 2 vol. (1828; 2nd ed., 1840). Instrumental in giving American English a dignity and vitality of its own."

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Fine literature does psychoanalysis:

“Art finds her own perfection within, and not outside of herself. She is not to be judged by any external standard of resemblance. She is a veil, rather than a mirror.”

Oscar Wilde, The Decay of Lying - An Observation, 1889. BOTD 1854

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John Kenneth Galbraith (15 Oct 1908 - 29 Apr 2006), Canadian-born American economist and public servant.

"Known for his support of public spending and for the literary quality of his writing on public affairs."

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🎨 artist and illustrator, official British WWII war artist, was 16 October 1900.

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Mervyn LeRoy (15 Oct 1900 - 13 Sep 1987), American film director.

"One of LeRoy’s most notable films was 'I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang' 1932, a blistering adaptation of Robert E. Burns’s account of his horrible experiences in a Georgia prison camp, w/ Paul Muni."

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Ralph Lauren (b. 14 Oct 1939), American fashion designer.

"Developing his brand around the image of an elite American lifestyle, Lauren built one of the world’s most successful fashion empires."

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Hannah Arendt (14 Oct 1906 - 4 Dec 1975), German-born American political scientist and philosopher.

"Known for her critical writing on Jewish affairs and her studies of totalitarianism."

📷 Fred Stein, 1944. Corbis.
📷 Jewish Chronicle Archive, c. 1963.

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Yves Montand (13 Oct 1921 - 9 Nov 1991), French stage and film actor and popular cabaret singer.

"Montand married acclaimed actress Simone Signoret in 1951, and made his mark as an actor in Henri-Georges Clouzot's classic suspense thriller 'The Wages of Fear,' 1953.

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Cornel Wilde (13 Oct 1915 - 16 Oct 1989), American actor, filmmaker.

"Director credits include such groundbreaking films as the jungle adventure 'The Naked Prey,' 1966, the Vietnam drama 'Beach Red,' 1967, and the post-apocalyptic thriller 'No Blade of Grass,' 1970.

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🎨 Italian Renaissance painter, was 13 October 1474.

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