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Article: Anniversaries
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- May 8, 1995
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Births: Karl Stamitz, composer, baptised 1745; Miguel Hidalgo y
Costilla, Mexican revolutionary, 1753; Johann Baptist Gnsbacher,
composer, 1778; Thomas Hancock, pioneer of rubber manufacture,
1786; Saint Jean Baptiste Marie Vianney, priest and teacher, 1786;
Franois-Auguste Marie Mignet, historian, 1796; Mikhail
Alexandrovich Bakunin, anarchist, 1814; Jean-Henri Dunant, founder
of the Red Cross, 1828; Louis Moreau Gottschalk, composer, 1829;
Alphonse Legros, painter and etcher, 1837; Moreton Frewen MP,
writer and entrepreneur, 1853; John Meade Falkner, novelist, 1858;
Nevil Vincent Sidgwick, chemist, 1873; Harry S. Truman, 33rd US
President, 1884; Edmund Wilson, novelist, playwright and ...