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Article: Anniversaries
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- April 27, 1994
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Births: Jean-Francois Millet, painter, 1642; Edward Gibbon,
historian, author of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire,
1737; Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, author and women's rights
champion, 1759; Charles Robert Cockerell, architect, 1788; Abraham
Louis Niedermeyer, composer and educationalist, 1802; Friedrich,
Freiherr von Flotow, composer, 1812; Herbert Spencer, philosopher,
1820; Ulysses Simpson Grant, general and 18th US president, 1822;
Edward Whymper, mountaineer and artist, 1840; Maurice Baring,
novelist, playwright and poet, 1874; Wallace Carothers, chemist and
developer of nylon, 1896; Cecil Day Lewis, poet and novelist, 1904.
Deaths: Philip the Bold, Duke of Burgundy, 1404; ...