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Heinrich Heine (1797), German romantic poet and writer
Dick Van Dyke (1925), American actor and comedian, of stage and screen
Howard Brenton (1942), Playwright of the controversial 'Romans In Britain'
Jeff Skunk Baxter (1948), Of the Pop group, 'The Doobie Brothers'
Christopher Plummer (1929), Stage and screen actor
John Francome (1952), Champion jockey
Jim Davidson (1954), Popular English comedian
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1926 Writer Agatha Christie vanished from her Surrey home, to be found in a Harrogate Hotel under an assumed name
1577 Francis Drake set sail from Plymouth, in the Golden Hind, on his round the world voyage
1847 Emily Bronte, under the pseudonym 'Ellis Bell', published 'Wuthering Heights'
1990 The United Nations launched an aid appeal, when a new famine threatened Ethiopia
1904 In London, the Metropolitan Underground railway system went electric
1984 Bucks Fizz member Mike Nolan, was seriously injured in a road accident, and put on a 'life support'system
1982 At Greenham Common air-base, 1,000 women staged a sit-in blockade in protest against 'Cruise' missiles
1642 New Zealand was discovered by the Dutch navigator, Abel Tasman