August 21

Jules Michelet

Jules Michelet (born August 21, 1798) – French historian – History of France

Read more about Michelet and his Histoire de France here


Friz Freleng

Friz Freleng (born August 21, 1906) U.S. cartoon animator/director – The Pink Panther

Read about Freleng's animations to classical music here

Rhapsody in Rivets is "built around an orchestral arrangement of Liszt’s Second Hungarian Rhapsody for piano (which might be the most-used piece of classical music in all animation). The characters are construction workers, acting as if their tools were musical instruments. The short earned Warner Bros. an Academy Award nomination and inspired Freleng to make an immediate follow-up, Pigs in a Polka, where the story is “The Three Little Pigs,” and Liszt is replaced by Brahms."

Watch Friz Freleng talk about his art
 here

Pink Panther

Read about how Freleng created the Pink Panther animation here