Anniversaries

From: The Independent - London | Date: October 21, 1998 | Copyright information

Births: Domenichino, or Domenico Zampieri, painter, 1581; George Ernst Stahl, chemist, 1660; Katsushika Hokusai, painter, wood- engraver and printmaker, 1760; Alexandre-Etienne Choron, musical scholar and composer, 1772; Samuel Taylor Coleridge, poet and writer, 1772; George Combe, phrenologist, 1788; Alphonse-Marie Louis de Prat de Lamartine, poet and statesman, 1790; Alfred Bernhard Nobel, industrialist and founder of the Nobel Prizes, 1833; Franklin Thomas Grant Richards, publisher and wri...

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