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Born today:

Antonio Salieri 1750 Meriwether Lewis 1774 Marshall Field 1834 Caspar Weinberger 1917 Shelley Winters 1922 Rosalynn Carter 1927 Roman Polanski 1933 Rafer Johnson 1935 Robert Redford 1937 Martin Mull 1943 Patrick Swayze 1952 Malcolm-Jamal Warner 1970

Died today:

Genghis Khan 1227 Pope Adrian V poisoned 1276 Pope Alexander VI accidentally poisoned 1503 Pope Paul IV 1559 Francis I Holy Roman Emperor 1765 Honore de Balzac 1850 William Henry Hudson 1922 Walter Percy Chrysler 1940 Anita Loos 1981 Robert Russell Bennett 1981 Sir Frederick Ashton 1988

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