#BOTD 1969. Remembering jazz musician and composer Roy Hargrove. (d.2018) #JazzSky

#BOTD 1947. Remembering musician, songwriter and founding member of the Grateful Dead - Bob Weir. (d.2026)

“Most people are other people.” — Oscar Wilde, Epistola: In Carcere et Vinculis
#BOTD #OscarWilde #Quotation #Quote #QOTD #OtherPeople #People

#BOTD 1938. Remembering singer, songwriter, actress and model Christa Päffgen aka Nico (d.1988)

#BOTD 1903. Remembering Blues guitarist and singer/songwriter, Big Joe Williams. (d.1982) #BluesSky

"Jim Morrison tells me that people are looking at the streets while I am looking at the moon. I do not feel connected enough [with the issues] to throw stones at a policeman. I want to throw stones at the whole world."

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🌹🎤 Remembering #Nico, who was #BOTD 16 Oct 1938.

“Ideology represents the imaginary relationship of individuals to their real conditions of existence.”

✒ #LouisAlthusser, Algerian-French Marxist philosopher and academic, was #BOTD 16 October 1918. #Philosophy

🎨 #EdwardArdizzone, British artist, author, and illustrator, official British WWII war artist, was #BOTD 16 October 1900. #Art #Illustration #Painting

"Give us the future… We’ve had enough of your past… Give us back our country… to live in, – to grow in, – to Love."

🇮🇪 #MichaelCollins, Irish revolutionary general and politician, 2nd Irish Minister for Finance, was #BOTD 16 October 1890. #Politics

"Man is born broken. He lives by mending. The grace of God is glue."

✒ #EugeneONeill, American playwright and Nobel Laureate 1936, was #BOTD 16 October 1888. #Theatre #Literature

⚒ #RembrandtBugatti, Italian sculptor, was #BOTD 16 October 1884. #Art #Sculpture

"The capitalist class rules but does not govern: it contents itself with ruling the government."

✒ #KarlKautsky, Austrian-born Marxist theorist, was #BOTD 16 October 1854. #Philosophy

"There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about."

✒🎭 #OscarWilde, Irish playwright, novelist, and poet, was #BOTD 16 October 1853. #Theatre #Literature

🎨 #DanielChodowiecki, German painter and printmaker of Polish and French Huguenot descent, was #BOTD 16 October 1726. #Art #Painting #Illustration

🎨 #PierrePaulPuget, French Baroque artist, was #BOTD 16 October 1620. #Art #Painting #Sculpture

Bon dia!!

#BOTD Tim Robbins.

Penny Marshall #BOTD with Jack Klugman and Tony Randall on THE ODD COUPLE in 1974.

"When Cindy and I did LAVERNE & SHIRLEY, she was more like Tony, and I did what I had learned from Jack," Marshall said in 2013. #TVSky #ClassicTV

Director Mervyn LeRoy born Oct 15, 1900!
Over 75 films & shorts incl Little Caesar, I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang, Random Harvest, Madame Curie, Quo Vadis, Million Dollar Mermaid, Mister Roberts, The Bad Seed, No Time for Sergeants, Gypsy!
#botd https://www.classicmoviehub.com/bio/mervyn-leroy/

#botd Linda Darnell, while filming Slattery's Hurricane (1949).