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Article: Anniversaries
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- January 22, 1994
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Births: Ivan III (the Great), Grand Duke of Muscovy, 1440; Sir
Francis Bacon, Viscount St Albans, statesman and lawyer, 1561; Sir
Robert Bruce Cotton, antiquary, 1571; Nicolas Lancret, painter,
1690; Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, author, 1729; Vincenzo Righini,
singer and composer, 1756; Manuel del Popolo Vicente Rodriguez
Garcia, tenor and composer, 1775; George Gordon Byron, sixth Baron
Byron, poet, 1788; Eugen Adam, painter, 1817; Paul- Vidal de la
Blache, geographer, 1845; August Strindberg, playwright, 1849;
Beatrice Potter Webb, social reformer, 1858; David Wark Griffith,
silent-film producer and director, 1875; Lev Davidovich Landau,
physicist, 1908; U Thant, Secretary-General of ...