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Article: Anniversaries
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- August 8, 1994
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Births: Sir Godfrey Kneller (Gottfried Kniller), painter, 1646;
Jacques Basnage de Beauval, protestant theologian, 1653; Hermann
Anton Gelinek (Cervetti), monk, violinist and composer, 1709;
George Cattermole, water- colour painter, 1800; Wilhelm Friedrich
Wieprecht, inventor of the bass-tuba, 1802; F. Anstey (Thomas
Anstey Guthrie), author, 1856; Cecile- Louise Stephanie Chaminade,
composer and pianist, 1861; Frank Richards (Charles Harold St John
Hamilton), author and creator of "Billy Bunter", 1876; Marjorie
Kinnan Rawlings, novelist, 1896; Victor Young, composer and
conductor, 1900; Ernest Orlando Lawrence, physicist and inventor of
the cyclotron, 1901.
Deaths: Thomas a Kempis (Thomas ...