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Article: ANNIVERSARIES
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- February 16, 1995
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Births: Gaspard de Coligny, Huguenot leader and soldier, 1519;
Frederick William, Elector of Brandenburg, 1620; Giambattista
Bodoni, printer and typographer, 1740; Jacques Pierre Joseph Rode,
violinist and composer, 1774; Heinrich Barth, explorer, 1821; Sir
Francis Galton, anthropologist and geneticist, 1822; Leon Achard,
lyric tenor, 1831; Ernst Heinrich Haeckel, naturalist, 1834; Henry
Brooks Adams, historian, 1838; Hugo Marie de Vries, botanist, 1848;
Sir William Gurney Benham, editor and newspaper proprietor, 1859;
George Macaulay Trevelyan, historian, 1876; Robert Joseph Flaherty,
film maker, 1884; Louis Calhern (Karl Henry Vogt), actor, 1895;
Katherine Cornell, actress, 1898; Sir ...