February 3

In literary history

• 1468Johannes Gutenberg died in Mainz, having never recouped from the legal battles and debts that stripped him of his press. He did not live to see that he had made every subsequent revolution, religious, scientific, political, possible.

Writers born on February 3

• Gertrude Stein (1874),
• Simone Weil (1909)

The Daily Canon for February 3

Gravity and Grace by Simone Weil (1947).