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Selected anniversaries
Births
1737
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Edward Gibbon
, English historian (d.
1794
) (
pictured
)
1828
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Jean Henri Dunant
, Founder of the
Red Cross
;
Nobel laureate
(d.
1910
)
1884
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Harry S. Truman
,
President of the United States
(d.
1972
)
1940
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Peter Benchley
, American author (d.
2006
)
1940 -
Ricky Nelson
, American singer (d.
1985
)
Deaths
1794
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Antoine Lavoisier
, French chemist (executed) (b.
1743
)
1819
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Kamehameha I
, King of Hawaii
1873
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John Stuart Mill
, English philosopher (b.
1806
)
1880
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Gustave Flaubert
, French novelist (b.
1821
)