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Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772), English poet and friend of Wordsworth
Katsushka Hokusai (1760), Japanese painter
Nadia Narina (1927), South African born, prima ballerina
Geoff Boycott (1940), Yorkshire and England batsman
Julian Cope (1957), Pop singer and member of 'Teardrop Explodes'
Alfred Nobel (1833), Swedish inventor of 'Dynamite'
Eric Faulkner (1954), Guitarist with the 'Bay City Rollers'
Sir Ernest Dunlop Swinton (1868), Inventor of the military tank
Simon Gray (1936), Playwright
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1805 Admiral Lord Nelson was killed during a battle off Cape Trafalgar
1960 Britains first nuclear powered submarine, 'Dreadnought', was launched at Barrow in Lancashire
1988 A Greek cruise ship sank after a collision with a freighter. All 390 British schoolchildren and 81 teachers were rescued
1958 The first women peers were introduced into the House of Lords
1966 At Aberfan in Wales, a coal tip slid down onto the local school after heavy rain, killing 144 people
1984 RAF corporal Steve Jones from Barry, South Wales, won the Chicago marathon in a record time
1982 Gerry Adams was elected to the Northern Ireland Assembly, becoming the first Sinn Fein member to do so