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Article: Anniversaries
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- April 30, 1994
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Births: Casimir III, King of Poland, 1310; William Lilly,
astrologer and fortune-teller, 1602; Mary II, Queen, 1662;
Jacques-Louis David, painter, 1748; Johann Karl Friedrich Gauss,
mathematician and astronomer, 1777; William Mulready, painter,
1786; Richard Redgrave, painter, 1804; Karl Kammerlander,
song-writer and composer, 1828; Sir John Lubbock, first Baron
Avebury, banker, writer and entomologist, 1834; Jaroslav Hasek,
novelist, 1883; Joachim von Ribbentrop, politician, 1893.
Deaths: Pierre du Terrail, Seigneur de Bayard, soldier, killed
1524; James Montgomery, journalist, poet and hymn-writer, 1854;
Sarah Josepha Hale (Buell), editor, and poet for children, 1879;
Edouard Manet, ...