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Selected anniversaries
Births
1496
-
Mary Tudor
, daughter of
Henry VII of England
and queen consort of
Louis XII of France
(d.
1533
)
1837
-
Grover Cleveland
,
President of the United States
(d.
1908
) (
pictured
)
1844
-
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
, Russian composer (d.
1908
)
1858
-
Rudolf Diesel
, German inventor (d.
1913
)
1869
-
Neville Chamberlain
,
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
(d.
1940
)
1932
-
John Updike
, American author (d.
2009
)
Deaths
978
- King
Edward the Martyr
of England
1745
- Sir
Robert Walpole
,
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
(b.
1676
)
1965
- King
Farouk I of Egypt
(b.
1920
)