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Today's Anniversary – Thursday, May 07


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Births

* 1978 Brian Clevinger Author of the webcomic 8-Bit Theater, he comic miniseries Atomic Robo, and the novel Nuklear Age.
* 1974 Christoffer Boe Danish film director.
* 1946 Michael Rosen English poet and children's novelist.
* 1940 Angela Carter English novelist and journalist, known for her post-feminist magical realist and science fiction works.
* 1934 Ronald (born L. Ron Hubbard DeWolfe Author, former operative in Scientology, eldest son of L Ron Hubbard; born Lafayette Ronald Hubbard, Jr.
* 1932 Jenny Joseph English poet.
* 1931 Gene Wolfe American science fiction and fantasy writer.
* 1927 Ruth Prawer Jhabvala Booker prize-winning novelist, short story writer, and two-time Academy Award-winning screenwriter.
* 1924 Marjorie Boulton British author and poet writing in both English and Esperanto.
* 1909 Edwin H. Land American scientist and inventor.
* 1892 Josip Broz Tito Known as Tito, was a Second World War Yugoslavian resistance leader and charismatic Socialist President of Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia from 1943 to 1980.
* 1892 Archibald MacLeish American poet, writer and the Librarian of Congress.
* 1861 Rabindranath Tagore Also known as Rabi Thakur, was a Bengali philosopher, poet, and winner of the Nobel Prize for literature in 1913.
* 1847 Archibald Primrose Rosebery British Liberal statesman and Prime Minister, also known as Archibald Primrose (1847–1851) and Lord Dalmeny (1851–1868).
* 1840 Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky [or 1840-04-25 – 1893-10-25 ] was a Russian Romantic era composer.
* 1836 Joseph Gurney Cannon American politician from Illinois and leader of the Republican Party.
* 1812 Robert Browning English poet and husband of Elizabeth Barrett Browning.
* 1754 Joseph Joubert French moralist and essayist.

Deaths

† 1998 Allan McLeod Cormack South African-born American physicist who won the 1979 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work on x-ray computed tomography.
† 1996 Albert Meltzer Anarchist activist and writer.
† 1994 Clement Greenberg American art critic best known as a champion of Abstract Expressionism.
† 1966 Stanislaw Jerzy Lec Polish poet and aphorist.
† 1956 Josef Hoffmann Austrian architect, designer of consumer goods and founding member of the Vienna Secession.
† 1941 James Frazer Scottish social anthropologist influential in the early stages of the modern studies of mythology and comparative religion.
† 1915 Elbert Hubbard American writer, publisher, artist, businessman, anarchist and libertarian socialist philosopher.
† 1915 Alice Moore Hubbard Born Alice Luann Moore, was a noted American feminist, writer, and, with her husband, Elbert Hubbard was a leading figure in the Roycroft movement.
† 1890 Joseph Cummings Fifth president of Northwestern University from 1881 to 1890, served as president of Wesleyan University for 18 years from 1857 to 1875, and also served as the president of the predecessor of Syracuse University from 1854 to 1857.
† 1873 Salmon P. Chase American politician and jurist in the Civil War era who served as U S Senator from Ohio and Governor of Ohio; as Secretary of the Treasury under President Abraham Lincoln; and as Chief Justice of the United States.
† 1868 Henry Brougham Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain.
† 1840 Caspar David Friedrich 19th century German romantic painter, considered by many critics to be one of the finest representatives of the movement.
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