Anniversaries

The Independent - London | June 5, 1998 | Copyright

Births: Adam Smith, political economist, 1723; Igor Fedorovich Stravinsky, composer, 1882; John Maynard Keynes, first Baron Keynes, 1883; Dame Ivy Compton-Burnett, novelist, 1884; Federico Garca Lorca, poet and playwright, 1898; Gilbert Charles Harding, television personality, 1907. Deaths: Orlando Gibbons, composer and organist, 1625; Stephen Crane, novelist and poet, 1900; O. Henry (William Sydney Porter), short-story writer, 1910; Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, sculptor, 1915; Horatio Herbert, first Earl Kitchener of Khartoum, field marshal, lost at sea in HMS Hampshire 1916. On this day: the ...

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