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Britain's Queen Mother Elizabeth is 98. Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat is 69. Track star Mary Decker Slaney is 40. Baseball pitcher Roger Clemens is 36. In 1060, Henry I of France died and was succeeded by Philip 1.