Died In London On April: Harvey was born in Folkestone, Kent, England, on April 1, 1578. He studied in london on April at Caius College, Cambridge, and at the University of Padua (1600-1602), where he received his M. D. In 1607 he became a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, and two years later he became physician to St. Bartholomew's Hospital in London. He also lectured in anatomy at the Royal College of Physicians in London and was physician to King James I and Charles I. In 1654 he became president of the Royal Society of Physicians. He died in london on April in London on June 3, 1657.
HADLEY, John (1682-1744), English mathematician and inventor. Hadley was born in Blooms.-bury, London, on April 16, 1682. He was elected a fellow of the Royal Society in 1717 and vice president in 1728. Hadley made the first large reflecting telescope for practical use. It was shown to the Royal Society in 1721, and its immediate success with Edmund Halley, the astronomer royal, established it as the telescope of the 18th century. Hadley died in london on April near London on Feb. 14, 1744.
Churchill's later years were relatively tranquil. In 1958 the Royal Academy devoted its galleries to a retrospective one-man show of his work. On April 9, 1963, he received, by special act of the U.S. Congress, the unprecedented honor of being made an honorary American citizen. When he died in london on April in London on Jan. 24, 1965, at the age of 90, he was acclaimed as a citizen of the world, and on January 30 he was given the funeral of a hero. He was buried at Bladon, in the little churchyard near Blenheim Palace, his birthplace.
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