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From: The Independent - London | Date: December 28, 1999 | Copyright information

Births: Thomas Henderson, astronomer, 1798; Sir Archibald Geikie, geologist, 1835; Thomas Woodrow Wilson, 28th US President, 1856; Philip Wilson Steer, artist, 1860; Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington, astronomer, 1882; St John Greer Ervine, playwright and dramatic critic, 1883; Roger Huntington Sessions, composer, 1896; Earl "Fatha" Hines, jazz pianist, 1905. Deaths: St Francis de Sales, 1622; Laurent de Lahire, painter, 1656; Queen Mary II (of William and Mary), 1694; Pierre Bayle, philosopher an...

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