Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/April 2

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[edit] Births

• 742 - Charlemagne (d. 814)
• 1725 - Giacomo Casanova, Italian adventurer and writer (d. 1798) (pictured)
• 1805 - Hans Christian Andersen, Danish writer (d. 1875)
• 1840 - Émile Zola, French novelist and critic (d. 1902)
• 1914 - Sir Alec Guinness, English actor (d. 2000)
• 1920 - Jack Webb, American actor, director, and producer (d. 1982)

[edit] Deaths

• 1872 - Samuel F. B. Morse, American painter and inventor of the telegraph (b. 1791)
• 1922 - Hermann Rorschach, Swiss psychologist (b. 1884)
• 1974 - Georges Pompidou, President of France (b. 1911)
• 2005 - Pope John Paul II, Polish Pope (b. 1920)