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From: The Independent - London | Date: September 25, 1996 | Copyright information

Births: Matthew Merian the Elder, engraver and bookseller, 1593; Jacques-Benigne Bossuet, theologian, 1627; Jean-Philippe Rameau, composer, 1683; Abraham Gottlob Werner, geologist, 1750; George Frederic Pinto, violinist and composer, 1786; Mrs Felicia Dorothea Hemans, poet, 1793; Henri Scheffer, painter, 1798; William Michael Rossetti, civil servant and brother of the poet, 1829; Karl Klindworth, pianist and conductor, 1830; Leon Boellmann, composer, 1862; Thomas Hunt Morgan, geneticist, 186...

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