Births: Giovanni Antonio Canale (Canaletto), painter, 1697; Peter II, Tsar of Russia, 1715; Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, artillery officer and author, 1741; Sir Samuel Luke Fildes, painter, 1844; James Truslow Adams, historian, 1878; Fannie Hurst, novelist, 1889; Melina Mercouri (Amalia-Maria Mercouri), Greek minister of culture and former actress, 1917. Deaths: Margaret, Queen of Scotland, 1541; Sarah Jennings, Duchess of Marlborough, 1744; Henry John Temple, third Viscount Palmerston, statesman, 1865; Charles Babbage, mathematician and computer inventor, 1871; Charles- Francois Gounod, ...

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