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Article: Anniversaries
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- September 17, 1994
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Births: Pope Paul V, 1552; Marie-Jean Antoine-Nicolas Caritat,
Marquis de Condorcet, mathematician and philosopher, 1743; Edward
William Lane, translator of The Thousand and One Nights, 1801;
Charles Tomlinson Griffes, composer, 1884; Sir Francis Charles
Chichester, yachtsman and aviator, 1901; Dolores Costello, actress,
1906.
Deaths: Pedro Menendez de Aviles, soldier and navigator, 1574;
Philip IV, King of Spain, 1665; Tobias George Smollett, novelist,
1771; Walter Savage Landor, author, 1864; William Henry Fox Talbot,
photographic pioneer, 1877; Eugene-Emmanuel Viollet-le- Duc, Gothic
architect, 1879; Ruth Benedict, anthropologist, 1948; Dame Lilian
Braithwaite, actress, 1948; ...