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Today's Anniversary – Thursday, April 09


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Births

* 1990 Kristen Stewart American actress, best known for playing Bella Swan in The Twilight Saga.
* 1974 Jenna Jameson American pornographic actress.
* 1963 Marc Jacobs American Fashion designer.
* 1951 Stefan Szczesny Mediterranean painter, draughtsman, and sculptor.
* 1938 Viktor Chernomyrdin Prime Minister of Russia.
* 1936 Valerie Solanas American feminist.
* 1932 Jim Fowler Professional zoologist and was host of the Emmy Award-winning television show Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom.
* 1929 Fred Hollows New Zealand-born ophthalmologist and humanitarian who devoted a great part of his life to the eradication of curable blindness among the underprivileged communities of Oceania, Asia and Africa.
* 1928 Tom Lehrer American singer-songwriter, satirist, pianist, and mathematician.
* 1915 Leonard Wibberley Prolific Irish author, best known for his comic novels about the imaginary country Grand Fenwick, particularly The Mouse That Roared.
* 1906 Hugh Gaitskell British politician and leader of the Labour Party from 1955 until his death.
* 1905 J. William Fulbright Well-known member of the United States Senate representing Arkansas.
* 1904 Ludwig Hohl Swiss author noted for his radical thoughts about life and literature.
* 1898 Paul Robeson American actor of film and stage, All-American and professional athlete, writer, multi-lingual orator, lawyer, and basso profondo concert singer who was also noted for his wide-ranging social justice activism.
* 1865 Charles Proteus Steinmetz German-American mathematician and electrical engineer.
* 1865 Erich Ludendorff German Army officer, Generalquartiermeister during World War I, victor of Li?ge, and, with Paul von Hindenburg, one of the victors of the Battle of Tannenberg.
* 1865 Laurence Hope Pen-name of the English poet Adela Florence Nicholson.
* 1835 Leopold II of Belgium Succeeded his father, Leopold I of Belgium, to the Belgian throne in 1865 as Leopold II, King of the Belgians, and remained king until his death.
* 1821 Charles Baudelaire French poet, critic and translator.
* 1749 Camillo Federici Italian dramatist and actor.
* 1680 Philippe Nericault Destouches French dramatist.

Deaths

† 2005 Andrea Dworkin American radical feminist and writer.
† 1976 Phil Ochs Folksinger active in the civil rights movement and in opposition to the Vietnam War.
† 1959 Frank Lloyd Wright American architect.
† 1953 Hans Reichenbach Leading philosopher of science, educator and proponent of logical positivism.
† 1945 Dietrich Bonhoeffer German Lutheran pastor, theologian, participant in the German resistance movement against Nazism and founding member of the Confessing Church.
† 1945 Wilhelm Canaris German admiral and head of the Abwehr, the German military intelligence service, from 1935 to 1944.
† 1917 Edward Thomas English poet, critical biographer and topographical writer.
† 1905 Sarah Chauncey Woolsey American children's author who wrote under the pen name Susan Coolidge.
† 1899 Stephen Johnson Field American jurist.
† 1761 William Law English divine.
† 1626 Francis Bacon English philosopher, statesman and essayist.
† 1553 Francois Rabelais French humanist writer of satirical romances.
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