It's the birthday of the blues singer and guitarist B.B. King, born in Itta Bena, Mississippi (1925).

It's the birthday of François VI, duke de La Rochefoucauld, born in Paris (1613), who wrote a slim book in 1665 called Maxims, a series of witty sayings about human nature.

"There are some people who would never have fallen in love if they had not heard that there was such a thing."

"We all have strength enough to endure the troubles of others."

"Everybody complains of his memory, but nobody of his judgement."