obtuse adjective: 1. Slow or unwilling to understand. 2. Dull or indistinct, as a sound, pain, or sensation. 3. Blunt; not sharp or pointed. 4. Of an angle: measuring more than 90° and less than 180°.
☰Thought of the Day
"Reader, I married him." - Charlotte Brontë, from Jane Eyre, ch 38.
- Gladys Brockwell, American actress (Long Pants, Oliver Twist), born in Brooklyn, New York (d. 1929)
- Marty Robbins, American country singer ("El Paso"; "Devil Woman"; "I Walk Alone"), born in Glendale, Arizona (d. 1982)
- Manfred Mayrhofer, Austrian Indo-European philologist (Indo-Iranian languages), born in Linz, Austria (d. 2011)
- Carolyn Brown, American dancer, and choreographer (founding member of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company), born in Fitchburg, Massachusetts (d. 2025)
- Robert Blackburn, Irish educationist (International Baccalaureate Organisation), born in Kilkenny, Ireland (d. 1990)
- Judith Appelbaum, American magazine and newspaper editor and educator, born in New York (d. 2018)
- Gal Costa, Brazilian bossa nova and Tropicália singer, born in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil (d. 2022)
- Alexandra Lencastre, Portuguese actress (Ana e os Sete, A Única Mulher), born in Lisbon, Portugal