Anniversaries From: The Independent - London | Date: October 1, 1998 | Copyright 1998 The Independent - London. Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

Births: Henry III, King, 1207; Giacomo da Vignola (Giacomo Barozzi), architect, 1507; Giovanni Matteo Asola, priest and composer, 1609; Alessandro Stradella, singer and composer, 1644; Paul I, Tsar of Russia, 1754; William Thomas Beckford, writer and millionaire, 1759; Pierre-Marie Francois de Sales Baillot, violinist, 1771; Sir Robert Smirke, architect, 1781; Karl von Piloty, painter, 1826; Adam Adolf Oberlander, painter and caricaturist, 1845; Annie Besant, social reformer and theosophist, ...

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