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Article: Anniversaries
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- June 3, 1995
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Anniversaries
TODAY: Births: Sydney Smith, preacher, reformer and writer,
1771; Richard Cobden, reformer, 1804; Sir William Matthew Flinders
Petrie, archaeologist, 1853; George V, King, 1865; Raoul Dufy,
painter, 1877; Josephine Baker, singer, 1906; The Hon William
Douglas-Home, playwright, 1912. Deaths: William Harvey, exponent of
the theory of the circulation of the blood, 1657; Georges Bizet,
composer, 1875; Samuel Plimsoll, politician and social reformer,
1898; Johann Strauss the Younger, composer and conductor, 1899;
Mary Henrietta Kingsley, writer, 1900; Franz Kafka, writer, 1924;
Pope John XXIII (Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli), 1963; Arthur Michell
Ransome, writer, 1967; Dame Anna Neagle ...