Anniversaries

The Independent - London | March 1, 1999 | Copyright

Anniversaries

Births: Sir Samuel Romilly, law reformer, 1757; Gottfried Weber, composer, 1779; Denis-Auguste-Marie Raffet, illustrator, 1823; Frederic-Francois (Fryderyk Franciszek) Chopin, composer, 1810; Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin, architect, 1812; Ebenezer Prout, composer, 1835; Alfred Philippe Roll, painter, 1846; Augustus Saint- Gaudens, sculptor, 1848; Georg Simmel, philosopher and sociologist, 1858; Henry Harland, novelist and editor of the Yellow Book, 1861; Lytton Giles Strachey, writer and biographer, 1880; Roger Martin du Gard, playwright and novelist, 1881; Oskar Kokoschka, ...

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