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Today's Anniversary – Saturday, April 25


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Births

* 1976 Tim Duncan Virgin Islander American professional basketball player for the San Antonio Spurs of the National Basketball Association.
* 1951 Evan Thomas American journalist and author.
* 1949 James Fenton English poet, journalist and literary critic.
* 1945 Bjorn Ulvaeus Swedish songwriter, composer, musician, writer, producer, a former member of the Swedish musical group ABBA (1972–82), and co-composer of the musicals Chess,Kristina fr?n Duvem?la and Mamma Mia!.
* 1942 Jon Kyl United States junior senator for the state of Arizona, where he has served since 1995.
* 1942 Michael Malone American author and writer, born in Durham, North Carolina.
* 1940 Al Pacino Academy Award-, Golden Globe-, Tony-, BAFTA-, Emmy- and SAG award-winning American film and stage actor and director.
* 1939 Nicole Hollander American cartoonist and writer.
* 1939 Tarcisio Burgnich Former Italian football defender.
* 1921 Karel Appel Dutch painter and sculptor.
* 1915 John James Cowperthwaite British civil servant and the Financial Secretary of Hong Kong from 1961 to 1971.
* 1908 Edward R. Murrow American journalist; born Egbert Roscoe Murrow.
* 1900 Wolfgang Pauli Austrian-Swiss physicist, winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1945.
* 1883 Semyon Budyonny Soviet military commander and Marshal of the Soviet Union.
* 1874 Guglielmo Marconi Italian physicist and inventor of a successful wireless telegraph.
* 1873 Walter de la Mare English poet, short story writer, and novelist.
* 1862 Edward Grey British Foreign Secretary from 1905 to 1916.
* 1852 Leopoldo Alas Also known as Clarνn, was a Spanish realist novelist born in Zamora.
* 1833 Marko Miljanov Warrior and writer from Montenegro.
* 1822 James (musician) Pierpont American songwriter, arranger, organist, and composer.
* 1792 John Keble English churchman, one of the leaders of the Oxford Movement, and gave his name to Keble College, Oxford.
* 1788 William Henry Maule English lawyer, member of parliament and judge.
* 1599 Oliver Cromwell English statesman, soldier, and revolutionary responsible for the overthrow of the monarchy, temporarily turning England into a republican Commonwealth, and assuming rule as Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland and Ireland.
* 1214 Louis IX of France King of France from 1226.

Deaths

† 2010 Alan Sillitoe English novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter, essayist and poet, who first came to prominence as one of the Angry Young Men of the 1950s.
† 2008 Humphrey Lyttelton English jazz musician and broadcaster, for 36 years chairman of the BBC radio programme I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue.
† 2006 Jane Jacobs American-born Canadian urbanist, writer and activist.
† 2004 Thom Gunn Anglo-American poet.
† 1995 Ginger Rogers American film and stage actress, dancer and singer.
† 1990 Irving Fiske Born Irving Fishman in Brooklyn, New York, was a playwright, inventor, freelance writer, speaker, and the co-founder of Quarry Hill Creative Center.
† 1988 Clifford D. Simak American science fiction writer, and a winner of several Hugo and Nebula awards.
† 1943 Kurt von Hammerstein-Equord German general who served for a period as Commander-in-Chief of the Reichswehr/German Army.
† 1890 Crowfoot Or Isapo-Muxika was a chief of the Blackfoot First Nation in Canada.
† 1840 Simeon Denis Poisson French mathematician, geometer, and physicist who specialized in applying mathematics to a wide variety of physics fields, including electricity, magnetism, hydrodynamics and celestial mechanics.
† 1800 William Cowper English poet and hymnodist.
† 1595 Torquato Tasso Italian epic poet and dramatist, best known for his Rinaldo (1562), Aminta (1573) and Gerusalemme Liberata (1580).
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