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Ravi Shankar
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Indian musician Ravi Shankar—a sitar virtuoso and composer who founded the National Orchestra of India and who was influential in stimulating Western appreciation of classical Hindustani music—was born this day in 1920.

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Tony Dorsett
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Stan Freberg
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Bronisław Malinowski
April 7, 1884 — May 16, 1942
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View of Cotopaxi, oil on canvas by Frederic Edwin Church, 1857; in The Art Institute of Chicago.
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Frederic Edwin Church
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William R. King
April 7, 1786 — April 18, 1853
William Rufus de Vane King
William Rufus de Vane King was the 13th vice president of the United...
Donald Barthelme.
April 7, 1931 — July 23, 1989
Donald Barthelme
Donald Barthelme was an American short-story writer known for his...
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April 7, 1864 — December 21, 1920
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