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Today's Anniversary – Tuesday, April 07


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Births

* 1964 Russell Crowe New Zealand-born Australian actor.
* 1944 Makoto (physicist) Kobayashi Japanese physicist well-known for his work on CP-violation.
* 1944 Gerhard Schroder Chancellor of Germany from 1998 to 2005.
* 1944 David D. Clark American computer scientist.
* 1938 Jerry Brown Formerly Governor of California, ran for the Democratic Party's presidential nomination, was Mayor of Oakland, California, then Attorney General of California, and is again Governor.
* 1931 Donald Barthelme American author known for his postmodern short stories and novels.
* 1931 Daniel Ellsberg Former United States military analyst who, while employed by the RAND Corporation, precipitated a national political controversy in 1971 when he released the Pentagon Papers, a top-secret Pentagon study of US government decision-making about the Vietnam War, to The New York Times and other newspapers.
* 1928 James Garner American film and television actor.
* 1920 Ravi (sitarist) Shankar Indian composer and sitarist.
* 1915 Henry Kuttner American science fiction author.
* 1915 Billie Holiday Born Eleanora Fagan Goughy, was an American singer, generally considered one of the greatest jazz voices of all time; she was also known as Lady Day.
* 1897 Walter Winchell American newspaper and radio commentator, invented the gossip column at the New York Evening Graphic.
* 1895 Jim Ede Also known as 'Jim' Ede, was a British collector of art and friend to artists.
* 1894 A. A. Thomson English writer best known for his books on cricket.
* 1891 David Low New Zealand cartoonist who settled in England.
* 1883 Gino Severini Italian painter and a leading member of the Futurist movement and signed in 1910 the Manifesto of the Futurists together with his fellow Italians: Boccione, Carr? and Balla.
* 1881 Daisy Ashford During her childhood a writer of fiction, but abandoned her literary career as a teenager.
* 1873 John McGraw Considered to be one of the greatest managers in baseball history.
* 1871 Epifanio de los Santos Sometimes known as Don Pa?ong or Don Panyong, was a Filipino humanist historian, literary critic, art critic, jurist, prosecutor, antiquarian, scholar, painter, musician, musciologist, philosopher, philologist, archivist, journalist, chief-editor, bibliographer, paleographer, ethnographer, biographer, civil servant and patriot.
* 1786 William R. King U S Representative from North Carolina, a Senator from Alabama, and the thirteenth Vice President of the United States.
* 1780 William Ellery (preacher) Channing Foremost Unitarian theologian and preacher in the United States in the early nineteenth century.
* 1770 William Wordsworth Major English poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, launched the Romantic Age in English literature with the 1798 publication of Lyrical Ballads.
* 1726 Charles Burney English organist, travel writer and music historian.
* 1718 Blair Hugh Scottish author, considered one of the first great theorists of written discourse.
* 1648 John Sheffield English statesman and poet, was the son of Edmund Sheffield, 2nd Earl of Mulgrave, and succeeded to that title on his father’s death in 1658.

Deaths

† 1985 Carl Schmitt Weimar and Nazi jurist and critic of parliamentarism and liberalism.
† 1955 Theda Bara Silent film actress popularly known as "The Vamp.
† 1947 Henry Ford Founder of the Ford Motor Company.
† 1945 Princess Elizabeth Bibesco English writer and poet, active between 1921 and 1940.
† 1922 A. V. Dicey British jurist and constitutional theorist who wrote An Introduction to the Study of the Law of the Constitution (1885).
† 1891 P. T. Barnum American showman who is best remembered for his entertaining hoaxes and for founding the circus that eventually became Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus.
† 1850 William Lisle Bowles English poet and critic.
† 1836 William Godwin Leader of the English Jacobin movement, a political philosopher, educationalist, novelist, historian and biographer.
† 1668 William Davenant Also spelled D'Avenant, was an English poet and playwright.
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