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Michael York (1942), British born film actor
Lord James Callaghan (1912), Labour politician & former Prime minister
Mstislav Rostropovich (1927), Russian cellist and conductor
Gloria Swanson (1897), American stage and film actress
Lord Amery (1919), Conservative politician
Tony Banks (1950), Of the Pop group 'Genisis'
Sir Henry Royce (1863), The motor car designer of Rolls Royce fame
Wilhelm von Rontgen (1845), German discoverer of X-Rays
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1968 The first man in space, Yuri Gagarin, was killed in a plane crash
1948 Nikita Krushchev became the new leader of the Soviet Union
1931 Arnold Bennett, the English novelist, died of Typhoid
1923 The inventor of the vacuum flask, Sir James Dewar, died in London
1914 The first successful blood transfusion was performed
1871 In the first ever international rugby match, Scotland beat England at Edinburgh
1807 The asteroid Vesta was discovered
1794 The United States Navy was founded
1625 King James I of Great Britain died