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From: The Independent (London, England) | Date: October 2, 1996 | Copyright information

Births: Richard III, King, 1452; Philip Cipriani Hambley Potter, pianist and composer, 1792; Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov (Learmonth), poet, 1814; Paul Ludwig Hans von Beneckendorf von Hindenburg, German field marshal and president, 1847; Ferdinand Foch, Marshal of France, 1851; Sir William Ramsay, chemist, 1852; Charles de Souzy Ricketts, artist, 1866; Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, Indian leader, 1869; Wallace Stevens, poet, 1879; Julius "Groucho" Marx, comedian, 1890; Ignatius Roy Dunnachie Campbell, poet, 1901; Henry Graham Greene, novelist, 1904. Deaths: Isaac Oliver, miniature painter, ...

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