Anniversaries

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Anniversaries

Births: St Philip Neri, missionary, 1515; Matthew Prior, poet, 1664; Paul Julius, Baron von Reuter (Israel Beer Josaphat), news agency founder, 1816; Sir John Gilbert, painter and illustrator, 1817; Jacques Feyder (Frederix), film director, 1888; Harold Hart Crane, poet, 1899; Ernest Miller Hemingway, novelist, 1899. Deaths: Robert Burns, poet, 1796; Daniel Lambert, fat man who weighed 739 pounds at his death, 1809; Dame Ellen Alicia Terry, actress, 1928; George Macaulay Trevelyan, historian, 1962; Philip St John Basil Rathbone, actor, 1967; Albert John Luthuli, president of the ...

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