Anniversaries

From: The Independent (London, England) | Date: September 23, 1997 | Copyright information

Births: Euripides, playwright, 480 BC; Gaius Octavius, Augustus Caesar, first Roman Emperor, 63 BC; Karl Theodor Korner, poet, playwright and patriot, 1791; Mary Elizabeth Coleridge, novelist and poet, 1861; Emma Magdalena Rosalia Marie Josepha Barbara, Baroness Orczy, novelist, 1865; Walter Lippman, journalist and author, 1889. Deaths: Nicholas-Francois Mansart, architect, 1666; Prosper Merimee, novelist, 1870; William Wilkie Collins, novelist, ...

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