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Alfred 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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[edit] Tuesday

Thomas Young (June 13, 1773 – May 10, 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 Encyclopedia Britannica. (read more...)
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[edit] 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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[edit] Thursday

The only known photograph of Frédéric François Chopin (IPA: [fʁedeʁik fʁɑ̃swa ʃɔpɛ̃]), (March 1, 18101 – October 17, 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 February 22, for an explanation see here.

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[edit] Friday

Emir 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 January 3, 1911 to August 30, 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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[edit] 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. His most famous works are the poetry collections Leaves of Grass and Drum-Taps. (read more...)

Photo credit: George C. Cox (1887), Source: Library of Congress.

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[edit] Sunday

Albert Einstein (March 14, 1879 – April 18, 1955) was a German-born theoretical physicist, who is widely regarded as the greatest scientist of the 20th century. He proposed the theory of relativity and also made major contributions to the development of quantum mechanics, statistical mechanics, and cosmology. He was awarded the 1921 Nobel Prize for Physics for his explanation of the photoelectric effect in 1905 (his "miracle year").

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Photo credit: Oren Jack Turner, Source: Library of Congress.

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