Brooklyn Today: January 31, 2012
Good morning. Today is the 31st day of the year. It is the birth anniversary (1797) of composer Franz Schubert. Schubert, who died of typhus in Vienna at the age of 31, never got a chance to finish his Eighth (“Unfinished”) Symphony. By his request, he was buried near the grave of Beethoven.
Well-known people who were born today include Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands, actress Minnie Driver (Grosse Pointe Blank, Good Will Hunting), singer-actor Justin Timberlake (Alpha Dog, Black Snake Moan), singer John Lydon of the Sex Pistols and Brooklyn-born actress Jessica Walter (Play Misty for Me, The Flamingo Kid).
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