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Article: Anniversaries
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- April 23, 1994
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Births: William Shakespeare, playwright and poet, 1564; Maarten
Harpertszoon Tromp, naval commander, 1598; Samuel Wallis, navigator
and discoverer of Wallis island, 1728; Joseph Mallord William
Turner, painter, 1775; James Buchanan, 15th US President, 1791;
Thomas Wright, historian and antiquary, 1810; Louis- Antoine Julien
(Jullien), conductor, 1812; James Anthony Froude, historian, 1818;
Pierre Dupont, songwriter, 1821; Max Ludwig Planck, physicist,
1858; Dame Ethel Mary Smyth, composer, 1858; Edmund Henry Hynman,
first Viscount Allenby of Megiddo, field marshal, 1861; Frank
Borzage, film director, 1893; Margaret Kennedy, novelist, 1896;
Lester Bowles Pearson, statesman, 1897; Dame ...