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Born today:
Thomas Carlyle 1795 Samuel Butler 1835 Lillian Russell 1861 Wassily Kandinsky 1866 Generallisimo Francisco Franco 1892 Deanna Durbin 1921 Horst Buckholz 1933 John Cale 1940 Dennis Wilson 1944 Jeff Bridges 1949
Died today:
Saint John of Damascus A.D. 749 King William the Lion Scotland 1214 Pope John XXII 1334 Cardinal Richelieu 1642 John Gay 1732 Benjamin Britten 1966 Bert Lahr 1967 Hannah Arendt 1975 Rouben Mamoulian 1987 Frank Zappa 1993
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