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Article: Anniversaries
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- May 14, 1996
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Births: Marguerite de Valois, Queen of Navarre, 1553; Thomas
Gainsborough, painter, baptised 1727; Timothy Dwight, scholar and
poet, 1752; Robert Owen, social reformer, 1771; Johann Peter
Emilius Hartmann, composer and organist, 1805; Sir Squire Bancroft,
actor and manager, 1841; Henry Oliver Walker, painter, 1843; Sir
Thomas Henry Hall Caine, novelist, 1853; Otto Klemperer, conductor,
1885. Deaths: Henry IV of France, assassinated by the religious
fanatic Francois Ravaillac 1610; Matthew Gregory Lewis ("Monk
Lewis"), novelist and playwright, 1818; August Strindberg,
playwright, 1912; James Gordon Bennett, newspaper proprietor, 1918;
Henry John Heinz, food manufacturer, 1919; Sir Henry ...