Anniversaries

From: The Independent - London | Date: April 21, 1994 | Copyright information

Births: Lodovico Carracci, painter, 1555; Jan van Riebeeck, naval surgeon and founder of Cape Town, 1634; Prince George of Denmark, consort of Queen Anne, 1653; James Harris, first Earl of Malmesbury, statesman, 1746; Friedrich Wilhelm August Froebel, educationist, 1782; Reginald Heber, hymn-writer and bishop, 1783; Angela Georgina, first Baroness Burdett- Coutts, millionairess, 1814; Charlotte Bronte, novelist, 1816; Peter Ludwig Hertel, composer and conductor, 1817; Ferdinand Gumbert, tenor...

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