Article: Anniversaries

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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; ...

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