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Anniversaries: Dec 4

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Events

In 1791 The Observer was first published; in 1937 the first issue of The Dandy comic was published.

Births

Thomas Carlyle, essayist and historian, 1795; Samuel Butler, author, 1835; Rainer Maria Rilke, poet, 1875.

Deaths

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Thomas Hobbes, political philosopher, 1679; John Gay, poet and dramatist, 1732; John Tyndall, physicist, 1893; Charles Dow, co-creator of the Dow Jones Average, 1902; Benjamin Britten (Baron Britten), composer, 1976; Frank Zappa, rock musician, 1993.