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Article: Anniversaries
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- July 30, 1994
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Births: Giorgio Vasari, painter, architect and writer, 1511;
Eduard Eggeling, pianist and composer, 1813; Emily Jane Bronte,
novelist, 1818; Richard Burdon Haldane, first Viscount Haldane,
founder of the Territorial Army, 1856; Henry Ford, motor-car
manufacturer, 1863; Jean-Jacques Bernard, playwright and novelist,
1888; Dorothy Violet (Ashton) Wellesley, Duchess of Wellington,
poet, 1889; Henry Moore, sculptor, 1898; Professor Cyril Northcote
Parkinson, historian and inventor of "Parkinson's Law", 1909.
Deaths: Philip I, King of France, 1108; Jacopo Palma (Negreti),
painter, 1528; William Penn, Quaker leader, 1718; Thomas Gray,
poet, 1771; Denis Diderot, encyclopaedist, 1784; Richard ...