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From: The Independent (London, England) | Date: July 14, 1994 | Copyright information

Births: Cardinal Jules Mazarin (Giulio Mazarini), statesman, 1602; John Gibson Lockhart, editor, novelist and critic, 1794; James Abbott McNeill Whistler, painter and writer, 1834; Emmeline Pankhurst, social reformer and suffragist, 1858; Gustav Klimt, art nouveau painter, 1862; Gertrude Margaret Lowthian Bell, traveller and archaeologist, 1868; Woody Guthrie, folk singer, 1912.

Deaths: Madame de Stael (Anne- Louise Germaine Necker), Baronne de Stael, writer, 1817; Edward Calvert, artist and wood-engraver, 1883; Alfred Krupp, industrialist, 1887; Grock (Karl Adrien ...

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