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Edward G. Robinson (1893), American actor; ('Scarface','Little Caesar' & Key Largo')
John Osborne (1929), Playwright,actor and producer
Frank Sinatra (1915), American singer and 'Oscar' winning actor
Emerson Fittipaldi (1960), Brazilian racing driver
Edvard Munch (1863), Norwegian painter
Dionne Warwick (1941), US 'Soul' star, and Whitney Houston's aunt
Lionel Blair (1932), Dancer, TV presenter and director
Declan Cluskey (1942, Of the Pop group 'The Bachelors'
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1889 Robert Browning, the renowned English poet, died
1955 The 'Hovercraft' was patented by British engineer Christopher Cockerell
1917 The worlds worst train accident took place at Modane, France, when 543 people were killed
Guglielmo Marconi gave the first public demonstration of Radio at Toynbee hall, in London
1977 Winston Churchill's widow, Lady Spencer Churchill, died aged 92
1939 Douglas Fairbanks Snr., star of stage and screen, died
1915 The German Junkers J1, the worlds first all metal aeroplane, had its first test flight
1991 Salman Rushdie faced new death threats, after a paperback edition of his controversial book was to be published