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Musician and Activist Nina Simone’s Birthday

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJ25-U3jNWM Nina Simone was an American singer, songwriter, musician, arranger, and civil rights activist. Her music spanned a broad range of musical styles including classical, jazz, blues, folk, R&B, gospel, and pop.

Artist Vincent van Gogh’s Birthday

Wheat Field with Cypresses, 1889 Vincent van Gogh was a Dutch Post-Impressionist painter who posthumously became one of the most famous and influential figures in Western art history. In a decade, he created about 2,100 artworks, including around 860 oil paintings, most of which date from the last two years of his life.