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1664

John Vanbrugh is born

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1670

William Congreve is born

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1732

Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais is born

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1862

Edith Newbold Jones (Wharton) is born

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1931

Floyd Salas is born

1965

Sir Winston Churchill dies

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1986

L. Ron Hubbard dies