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Article: Anniversaries
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- January 29, 1994
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Births: Emanuel Swedenborg, scientist and philosopher, 1688;
Daniel Bernoulli, mathematician, 1700; Thomas Paine, writer and
reformer, 1737; William McKinley, 25th US President, 1843; Sir
Ebenezer Howard, garden cities originator, 1850; Anton Pavlovich
Chekhov, author and playwright, 1860; Frederick Delius, composer,
1862; Sir William Rothenstein, artist, 1872; The Duke of Abruzzi
(Luigi Amadeo), explorer, 1873; W.C. Fields (William Claude
Dukinfield), comedian, 1880.
Deaths: Pope Gelasius II, 1119; King George III, 1820; Edward
Lear, writer and landscape painter, 1888; Sir William Withey Gull,
physician, 1890; Alfred Sisley, landscape painter, 1899; Evelyn
Baring, first Earl of ...