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April 8:

 * 1871 - Francisco Javier Muñiz died of yellow fever during the great Buenos Aires epidemic in Buenos Aires, Argentina at age 75.
 * 1948 - Nikolai Yakovlevich Kuznetsov died in Leningrad, USSR.
 * 1962 - Alberto Angela was born in Paris, France.