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Francis Bacon, English statesman and essayist (Novum Organum), born (1561)

Lord George Gordon Byron, English Romantic poet (Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, Don Juan), born (1788)

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August Strindberg, Swedish dramatist and novelist (The Red Room), born (1849)

D.W. Griffith, American filmmaking pioneer (Birth of a Nation), born (1875)

U Thant, third secretary-general of UN (1962-72), born in Burma (1909)

Horace B. de Saussure, Swiss physicist and geologist who invented the first hygrometer to measure humidity, died at 58 (1799)

Duke Kahanamoku, Hawaiian 100m swimmer (Olympics-gold-1912, 20, 24), died at 77 (1968)

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Uranium atom first split at Columbia University (1939)

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Lyndon B. Johnson, U.S. President (1963-69), died at 64 (1973)

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