Anniversaries

From: The Independent - London | Date: July 22, 1994 | Copyright information

Births: Philip I, King of Spain, 1478; Anthony Ashley Cooper, first Earl of Shaftesbury, statesman, 1621; Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel, astronomer and mathematician, 1784; Gregor Johann Mendel, Augustinian monk and botanist, 1822; Heinrich Proch, song composer, 1809; Sir Herbert Stanley Oakeley, composer and organist, 1830; The Rev William Archibald Spooner, originator of "spoonerisms", 1844; Frederick William Rolfe ("Baron Corvo"), writer, 1860; Gus Elen (Ernest Augustus Elen), music-hall artist...

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