Anniversaries

From: The Independent - London | Date: September 18, 1997 | Copyright information

Births: Gilbert Burnet, Bishop of Salisbury and author, 1643; Dr Samuel Johnson, lexicographer and writer, 1709; Jean-Bernard Leon Foucault, physicist, 1819; Anton Mauve, landscape painter, 1838; Hans Muller, historian of music, 1854; Sir Owen Seaman, poet and editor of Punch, 1861; Gerald Hugh Tyrwhitt-Wilson Berners, 14th Baron Berners, composer, 1883; Arthur Benjamin, composer, 1893; Fay Compton (Virginia Lilian Emeline Compton), actress, 1894; John George Diefenbaker, statesman, 1895; Gr...

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