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Article: Anniversaries
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- April 2, 1994
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Births: Charlemagne (Charles I, Carolus Magnus) King of the
Franks and Emperor of the West, 742; Maria Sibylla Merian (Graff),
painter and engraver, 1647; Hans Christian Andersen, author, 1805;
William Holman Hunt, Pre-Raphaelite painter, 1827; Leon Gambetta,
statesman, 1838; Emile-Edouard Charles-Antoine Zola, novelist,
1840; Sir Neville Cardus, cricket and music writer, 1889; Jack
Buchanan, actor and singer, 1891; Max Ernst, Surrealist painter and
sculptor, 1891; Serge Lifar, choreographer, 1905.
Deaths: Gerard Edelinck, engraver, 1707; Honore-Gabriel
Riquetti, Comte de Mirabeau, politician and writer, 1791; Richard
Cobden, politician, 1865 Samuel Finley Breese Morse, inventor,
1872; ...