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Your support makes all the difference.Births: Il Parmigianino (Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola), painter, 1503; Adam Frans van der Meulen, painter, 1632; Daniel Dancer, miser, 1716; Alexander Hamilton, statesman, 1755; William Thomas Brande, chemist, 1788; John Payne Collier, Shakespearean critic, 1789; Ezra Cornell, founder of Cornell University, New York, 1807; John Lodge Ellerton, composer, 1807; Sir John Alexander Macdonald, first prime minister of Canada, 1815; Alexander Helwig Wyant, landscape painter, 1836; Otto Dienel, organist and teacher, 1839; William James, philosopher and psychologist, 1842; Christian August Sinding, pianist and composer, 1856; Fred Archer, jockey, 1857; George Nathaniel Curzon, Marquess Curzon of Kedleston, Viceroy of India, 1859; Henry Gordon Selfridge, founder of the London store, 1864; Reinhold Moritzovich Gliere, composer, 1875; Maurice Durufle, organist and composer, 1902; Manfred Bennington Lee (Lepovsky), author, of the "Ellery Queen" partnership, 1905; Pierre Mendes France, politician, 1907.
Deaths: Domenico (de Tommaso Bigordi) Ghirlandaio, painter, 1494; Sir Hans Sloane, physician and naturalist, 1753; Louis-Francois Roubillac (Roubiliac), sculptor, 1762; Emelyan Ivanovich Pugachev, Cossack rebel leader, 1775; Domenico Cimarosa, composer, 1801; Timothy Dwight, scholar and poet, 1817; Friedrich von Schlegel, poet, 1829; Francois Gerard, Baron Gerard, painter, 1837; Francis Scott Key, attorney and poet, author of "The Star-Spangled Banner", 1843; Theodor Schwann, anatomist and physiologist, 1882; Baron Georges-Eugene Haussmann, rebuilder of Paris, 1891; Thomas Gordon Hake, physician and poet, 1895; Cornelius Petrus Tiele, theologian and scholar, 1902; Thomas Hardy, poet and novelist, 1928; Galeazzo Ciano, conte di Cortellazzo, former Italian foreign minister, shot by pro-Mussolini Fascists, following a show trial when he was condemned to death, 1944; Caradoc Evans, novelist, 1945; Jean-Marie-Gabriel de Lattre de Tassigny, general, 1952; Oscar Straus, composer, 1954; Alberto Giacometti, sculptor and painter, 1966; Lal Bahadur Shastri, prime minister of India, 1966; Richmal Crompton (Lamburn), author and creator of "William", 1969; Padraic Colum, founder of the Irish National Theatre, 1972; Barbara Mary Pym, novelist, 1980; Malcolm John MacDonald, diplomat, 1981; Nikolai Podgorny, Soviet leader, 1983; Jack LaRue (Gaspare Biondolillo), actor, 1984.
On this day: the Dutch surrendered Trincomalee, Ceylon, to the British, 1782; Matthew Flinders and George Bass returned to Port Jackson, having proved that Tasmania was an island, 1799; Joachim Murat deserted Napoleon and joined the Allies, 1814; Benito Juarez returned to Mexico City, 1861; Charing Cross station, London, was formally opened, 1864; the Representation of the People Bill was passed, giving votes to women, 1918; the first women jurors were sworn in at the Old Bailey, 1921; King Zog was dethroned, and Albania was declared a republic, 1946; the Open University awarded its first degrees, 1973.
Today is the Feast Day of St Theodosius the Cenobiarch and St Salvius or Sauve of Amiens.
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