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Monday
McCoy Tyner (born December 11, 1938) is a jazz pianist from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He is best known for his work with the John Coltrane Quartet, playing with Coltrane, Jimmy Garrison and Elvin Jones. His brother, Jarvis Tyner, was the Communist Party USA vice-presidential candidate in 1976. (Read more...)
Photo credit: Gisle Hannemyr
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Thomas Young (13 June 1773 – 10 May 1829) was an English scientist, researcher, physician and polymath. In addition to contributing to the fields of optics, physics and physiology. He wrote articles on linguistics and egyptology for Encyclopædia Britannica. (Read more...)
Mid-nineteenth century engraving by Henry Adlard after a portrait by Thomas Lawrence
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Wednesday
Buzz Aldrin (born January 20, 1930 as Edwin Eugene Aldrin, Jr.) is an American pilot and astronaut. He was the Lunar Module Pilot for the Apollo 11 mission, the first lunar landing. He was the second person to set foot on the Moon and was the second human ever to step on an extraterrestrial world. Here, he walks on the surface of the Moon near the leg of the Lunar Module. (Read more...)
Photograph taken by Neil A. Armstrong, mission commander, with a 70mm lunar surface camera. Source:NASA
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Thursday
The only known photograph of Frédéric François Chopin (French pronunciation: [fʁedeʁik fʁɑ̃swa ʃɔpɛ̃]), (1 March 18101 – 17 October 1849). Chopin was a Polish piano composer of the Romantic period, widely regarded as one of the most famous, influential and prolific composers for piano, and Poland's most significant composer. (Read more...)
Photograph believed to have been taken by Louis-Auguste Bisson in 1849.
1Some sources give 22 February, for an explanation see here.
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Friday
Mohammed Alim Khan (1880–1944) was the last emir of the Manghit dynasty, the last ruling dynasty of the Emirate of Bukhara in Central Asia. He reigned from 3 January 1911 to 30 August 1920, and was a direct descendant of Genghis Khan, the first Great Khan. (Read more...)
Photo credit: Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii (1911) Source: Library of Congress
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Saturday
Walt Whitman (born Walter Whitman) (May 31, 1819 – March 26, 1892) was an American poet, essayist, journalist, and humanist born in West Hills, Huntington on Long Island in New York. Two of his most famous works are Franklin Evans and Leaves of Grass. (Read more...)
Photo credit: George C. Cox (1887), Source: Library of Congress.
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Sunday
Portal:Biography/Selected picture/Day 7
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