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Anniversaries: Dec 7

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Events

In 1875 a German steamer, the Deutschland, sank off the Kent coast, inspiring Gerard Manley Hopkins’s poem The Wreck of the Deutschland.

Births

Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Baroque sculptor, painter and architect, 1598.

Deaths

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Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman orator, statesman and writer, 43 BC; Sir Peter Lely, portrait painter, 1680; Thornton Wilder, Pulitzer Prize-winning writer, 1975; Robert Graves, poet, novelist, biographer, classical scholar and translator, 1985.