Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais, born on January 24, 1732 in Paris, France, died on May 18, 1799. According to Wikipedia, he was “a watch-maker, inventor, musician, politician, invalid, fugitive, spy, publisher, arms-dealer, and revolutionary (both French and American).” Wow! He sure was busy. According to http://www.born-today.com/Choose_dDay.htm, Mr. B said, "These days, what isn't worth saying is sung." Amen! I can think of quite a few songs fitting that description.
P.S. U.S. writer Nathaniel Hawthorne, born on July 4, 1804, died in 1864... Austrian composer Gustav Mahler, born on July 7, 1860, died in 1911... U.S. historian James Truslow Adams, born on October 18, 1878, died in 1949 and, according to http://www.born-today.com/Choose_dDay.htm, said, "The freedom now desired by many is not freedom to do and dare but freedom from care and worry." It hasn’t changed much since 1949, has it?
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