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Article: Anniversaries
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- February 11, 1994
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Births: Elizabeth of York, Henry VII's queen, 1465; Johann
Nikolaus Konrad Gotze, violinist and composer, 1791; William Henry
Fox Talbot, photographic pioneer, 1800; Josiah Willard Gibbs,
physicist, 1839; Farouk I, King of Egypt, 1920.
Deaths: William Shenstone, poet and gardener, 1763;
Jean-Bernard-Leon Foucault, physicist, 1868; Honore Daumier,
caricaturist, 1879; Milan IV, former king of Serbia, 1901; Jean-
Francisque Raffaelli, painter, etcher and architect, 1924; John
Buchan, first Baron Tweedsmuir, governor-general of Canada and
novelist, 1940; Axel Martin Fredrik Munthe, physician and writer,
1949; Erno von Dohnanyi, composer, 1960; Sylvia Plath, poet, 1963;
Henry Mayo Bateman, ...