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•  Antonio Salieri

  Antonio Salieri (18 August 1750 – 7 May 1825) was an Italian composer, conductor and teacher born in the Republic of Venice, but who spent his adult life and career as a faithful subject of the Hapsburg Monarchy. Salieri was a pivotal figure in the development of late 18th century opera. As a student of Florian Leopold Gassmann, and a protege of Gluck, Salieri was a cosmopolitan composer who wrote operas in three languages.

  

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•  Tippu Sultan

  

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•  Frederick Augustus I of Saxony

  Frederick Augustus I was King of Saxony (1805-1827) from the House of Wettin. He was also Elector Frederick Augustus III (Friedrich August III. ) of Saxony (1763-1806) and Duke Frederick Augustus I of Warsaw (1807-1813). The Augustusplatz in Leipzig is named after him.

  

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•  Lorenzo Mascheroni

  Lorenzo Mascheroni (May 13, 1750 – July 14, 1800) was an Italian mathematician. He was born near Bergamo, Lombardy. At first mainly interested in the humanities, he eventually became professor of mathematics at Pavia. In his Geometria del Compasso (Pavia, 1797), he proved that any geometrical construction which can be done with compass and straightedge, can also be done with compasses alone.

  

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•  Lady Anne Barnard

  Lady Anne Barnard (12 December 1750–6 May 1825), née Anne Lindsay, eldest daughter of James Lindsay, 5th Earl of Balcarres was born at Balcarres House, Fife, Scotland. She was author of the ballad Auld Robin Gray and an accomplished travel writer, artist and socialite of the period.

  

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•  Johann Gottlob Schneider

  Johann Gottlob Theaenus Schneider (18 January 1750–12 January 1822) was a German classicist and naturalist. Schneider was born at Collm in Saxony. In 1774, on the recommendation of Christian Gottlob Heine, he became secretary to the famous Strasbourg scholar Richard François Brunck, and in 1811 became professor of ancient languages and eloquence at Breslau (chief librarian, 1816) where he died in 1822.

  

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•  Friedrich Leopold zu Stolberg-Stolberg

  Friedrich Leopold Graf zu Stolberg-Stolberg (7 November 1750 - 5 December 1819), was a German poet born at Bramstedt in Holstein (then a part of Denmark).

  

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•  Karl August von Hardenberg

  Karl August Fürst von Hardenberg (May 31, 1750 – November 26, 1822) was a Prussian statesman and Prime Minister of Prussia.

  

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•  Frederick Muhlenberg

  Frederick Augustus Conrad Muhlenberg (January 1, 1750 – June 4, 1801) was an American minister and politician who was the first Speaker of the United States House of Representatives. A delegate and a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania and a Lutheran pastor by profession, Muhlenberg was born in Trappe, Pennsylvania. According to an urban legend, Muhlenberg as House Speaker prevented German from becoming an official language of the United States.

  

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•  Fabre d'Églantine

  Philippe François Nazaire Fabre d'Églantine (July 28, 1750 – April 5, 1794), commonly known as Fabre d'Églantine, was a French actor, dramatist, poet, and politician of the French Revolution.

  

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•  Proton

  The proton is a subatomic particle with an electric charge of +1 elementary charge. It is found in the nucleus of each atom, along with neutrons, but is also stable by itself and has a second identity as the hydrogen ion, H. It is composed of three fundamental particles: two up quarks and one down quark.

  

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•  Wink, Texas

  Wink is a city in Winkler County, Texas, United States. The population was 919 at the 2000 census. Wink was the hometown of singer and songwriter Roy Orbison, although he was born in Vernon, Texas.

  

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•  1984 in film

  The Walt Disney Company founds Touchstone Pictures to release movies with subject matter deemed inappropriate for the Disney name. Tri-Star Pictures, a joint venture of Columbia Pictures, HBO, and CBS, releases its first film. Michael Eisner becomes head of The Walt Disney Company Prince's first film Purple Rain, is released.

  

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•  The Biography Channel

  The Biography Channel (or simply bio. ) is an American digital cable television channel owned by A&E and based on the television series of the same name. A version of the channel also airs on ONO and Telefónica in Spain and on Sky Digital and cable television in the United Kingdom, a version of the channel also broadcasts in Canada owned by Rogers Media and in Australia. It is a digital cable, category 1 television channel in Canada.

  

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•  Wim Hesterman

  Willem "Wim" Hesterman (November 26, 1897 – December 2, 1971) was a Dutch boxer who competed in the 1920 Summer Olympics. He was born in Amsterdam and died in Amstelveen. In 1920 he eliminated in the second round of the featherweight class after losing his fight to Philippe Bouvy. He was the younger brother of Jan Hesterman and older brother of Catharina Hesterman.

  

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