29 August

Born in 1935 – William Friedkin, American filmmaker.

Above: Still from Friedkin’s 1971 film, The French Connection.

Also, born in 1632 – John Locke, English physician and philosopher, who said:

The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom. For in all the states of created beings, capable of laws, where there is no law there is no freedom.

and

Of all the ways whereby children are to be instructed, and their manners formed, the plainest, easiest, and most efficacious, is, to set before their eyes the examples of those things you would have them do, or avoid.