Anniversaries

From: The Independent (London, England) | Date: August 23, 1994 | Copyright information

Births: Louis-Francois Beffara, lexicographer, 1751; Louis XVI, King of France, 1754; Sir Astley Paston Cooper, surgeon, 1768; Georges-Leopold Chretien- Frederic Dagobert, Baron Cuvier, zoologist and statesman, 1769; Baron Egide Charles Gustav Wappers, painter, 1803; William Dent Priestman, oil engine inventor, 1847; William Ernest Henley, poet and critic, 1849; Moritz Moszkowski, composer, 1854; Edgar Lee Masters, poet and novelist, 1869; Sir Henry Thomas Tizard, scientist, 1885; Ernst Krenek, composer, 1900; Leonard Constant Lambert, composer and critic, 1905; Arthur Adamov, playwright, ...

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