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*mmddyyyy Birthdays *-------- ------------------------------------------------------------ B08310012 Caligula: Roman Emperor B08211165 Philip II (Philip-Augustus): King of France B08091631 John Dryden B08291632 John Locke B08261676 Sir Robert Walpole B08241724 George Stubbs: animal & portrait painter B08281749 Wolfgang von Goethe B08231754 Louis XVI: King of France B08241759 William Wilberforce: philanthropist B08151769 Napoleon Bonaparte B08211765 King William IV B08121774 Robert Southey B08171786 Davy Crockett: U.S. pioneer of the West B08241787 James Weddell: Antarctic explorer B08041792 Percy Bysshe Shelley B08181792 Lord John (later 1st Earl) Russell B08301797 Mary Shelley: writer, creator of Frankenstein B08061809 Alfred (later Lord) Tennyson B08261819 Prince Albert: Queen Victoria's Consort B08051850 Guy de Maupassant: French writer B08231854 Moritz Moszkowski: Polish/German composer B08141867 John Galsworthy: writer B08301871 Ernest (later Lord) Rutherford B08241872 Sir Max Beerbohm: writer & caricaturist B08101874 Herbert Hoover: U.S. President B08081879 Emilio Zapata: Mexican rebel B08281828 Leo Tolstoy: Russian writer B08311880 Queen Wilhemina of the Netherlands B08061881 Alexander Fleming: discoverer of penicillin B08231885 Sir Henry Thomas Tizard: scientist B08031887 Rupert Brooke: poet B08151888 T.E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia) B08171892 Mae West: U.S. film star B08301896 Raymond Massey: Canadian film actor B08311897 Fredric March: U.S. film actor B08041900 Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother B08311900 Roland Culver: actor B08241903 Graham Vivian Sutherland: painter B08211904 William 'Count' Basie: U.S. jazz pianist & bandleader B08231905 Leonard Constant Lambert: composer & critic B08051906 Joan Hickson: actress B08201907 Anatole Fistoulari: conductor B08281907 Sir Rupert Hart-Davis: writer, editor & former publisher B08271908 Sir Donald Bradman: former Australian cricketer B08211908 David Farrar: actor B08221908 Henri Cartier-Bresson: French photographer B08301908 Fred MacMurray: U.S. film actor B08301909 Joan Blondell: U.S. film actress B08051910 Jacquetta Hawkes: writer & archaelogist B08271910 Mother Theresa: missionary, Nobel Peace Prize winner, 1979 B08131912 Ben Hogan: U.S. golfer B08151912 Wendy Hiller (later Dame) B08231912 Gene Kelly: U.S. dancer & singer B08161913 Menachem Begin B08141913 Fred Davis: eight-times world snooker champion B08211913 Diana Churchill: actress B08051914 Sir Bert Millichip: Chairman, Football Association B08141914 Sydney Wooderson: former world record holder for the mile B08311914 Richard Basehart: U.S. film actor B08071915 Philip Snow: writer B08291915 Ingrid Bergman: film actress B08181916 Moura (later Dame Moura) Lympany: concert pianist B08061917 Robert Mitchum: U.S. film star B08301917 Denis Healey (later Lord): Labour statesman B08311918 Alan Jay Lerner: U.S. author & lyricist B08031920 P.D. James. writer B08131920 George Shearing: U.S. pianist B08181920 Godfrey Evans: former England cricketer B08221920 Ray Bradbury: writer B08011921 Jack Kramer: Wimbledon's Men's Singles Champion 1947 B08061922 Sir Freddie Laker: Chairman & Managing Director of B08061922CLaker Airways 1966-82 B08021923 Alan Whicker: broadcaster & writer B08291923 Sir Richard Attenborough: actor, producer & director B08291923 Marmaduke Hussey: BBC chairman B08311924 Buddy Hackett: U.S. film actor & comedian B08121925 Norris McWhirter: Co-founder 'Guinness Book of Records' B08151925 Oscar Peterson: U.S. jazz pianist B08181925 Brian Aldiss: writer & critic B08031926 Tony Bennett: U.S. singer B08061926 Frank Finlay: actor B08141926 Buddy Greco: U.S. singer B08171926 George Melly: jazz singer B08111927 Raymond Leppard: conductor B08181928 Viscount Montgomery of Alamein B08211928 Chris Brasher: Olympic gold medallist in 1956 B08221928 Karlheinz Stockhausen: composer & conductor B08291928 Elliott Gould: U.S. film actor B08311928 James Coburn: U.S. film actor B08021929 Peter O'Toole: actor B08101929 John Aldis: conductor B08111929 Professor Alun Hoddinott: composer B08231929 Peter Thomson: five-times winner of British Open Golf Championship B08011930 Lionel Bart: composer B08051930 Neil Armstrong: U.S. astronaut, first man to walk on the Moon B08211930 HRH Princess Margaret B08151930 Judge Stephen Tumin: Inspector of Prisons B08171930 Ted Hughes: Poet Laureate B08311930 Larry Grayson: entertainer B08141931 Frederic Raphael: writer B08191931 Willie Shoemaker: former jockey B08281931 John Shirley-Quirk: bass-baritone B08061932 Sir Howard Hodgkin: painter B08061932 Michael Deeley: film producer B08271932 Lady Antonia Fraser: writer B08311932 Roy Castle: entertainer B08151933 Rita Hunter: soprano B08211933 Dame Janet Baker: mezzo-soprano B08211933 Barry Norman: writer, journalist & broadcaster B08061934 Chris Bonington: mountaineer B08081934 Keith Barron: actor B08221934 General Norman Schwarzkopf: Commander of Allied Forces in Gulf War B08151935 Jim Dale: actor B08011936 Yves Saint Laurent: French couturier B08061937 Barbara Windsor: actress B08081937 Dustin Hoffman: U.S. actor B08111937 Anna Massey: actress B08181937 Willie Rushton: comedian & broadcaster B08181937 Robert Redford: U.S. actor & director B08191937 Richard Ingrams: Editor of 'Private Eye' 1963-1986 B08031938 Terry Wogan: broadcaster B08091938 Rod Laver: Australian tennis player B08031940 Martin Sheen: actor B08101940 Mrs Barbara Mills Q.C.: Director of Public Prosecutions B08041941 Martin Jarvis: actor B08101941 Anita Lonsbrough Porter: 200m breast stroke gold medallist B08101941C1960 Olympic Games B08211941 Kenny Rogers: country & western singer B08261941 Malcolm Pyrah: showjumper B08301941 Sue MacGregor: BBC radio presenter B08131942 Sheila Armstrong: soprano B08021943 Rose Tremain: writer B08041943 Georgina Hale: actress B08171943 Robert De Niro: U.S. actor B08171943 John Humphrys: journalist/broadcaster B08311945 Itzhak Perlman: violinist B08191946 Bill Clinton: President of the United States B08261946 Alison Steadman: actress B08231947 Willy Russell: writer & playwright B08281947 Emlyn Hughes: former England soccer captain B08291947 James Hunt: racing driver B08071949 Matthew Parris: writer, journalist & broadcaster B08071949 Greg Chappell: former Australian cricket captain B08231949 Christopher Blake: actor B08231949 Geoff Capes: former Olympic shot-putter B08281949 Imogen Cooper: concert pianist B08291949 Richard Gere: actor B08151950 The Princess Royal B08161950 Jeff Thomson: former Australian cricketer B08091951 James Naughtie: journalist/broadcaster B08171951 Alan Minter: former World Middle-weight boxing champion B08071952 Alexei Sayle: comedian B08171952 Nelson Piquet: World motor racing champion in 1981, 1983 & 1987 B08201952 John Emburey: cricketer B08241952 Carlo Curley: U.S. organist B08081953 Nigel Mansell: racing driver B08241953 Sam Torrance: Scottish golfer B08261954 Howard Clark: golfer B08271954 John Lloyd: tennis player B08051955 John Whitaker: equestrian B08311955 Edwin Moses: U.S. athlete B08171957 Robin Cousins: Olympic figure skating gold medallist in 1980 B08221957 Steve Davis: six-times world snooker champion B08241957 Stephen Fry: actor & writer B08271957 Bernhard Langer: German golfer B08191958 Gordon Brand Junior: golfer B08291958 Michael Jackson: U.S. pop singer B08291958 Lenny Henry: comedian B08211959 Anne Hobbs: tennis player B08271959 Gerhard Berger: German racing driver B08141960 Sarah Brightman: singer B08071961 Walter Swinburn: jockey B08151963 Jack Russell: English wicket-keeper B08221964 Mats Wilander: Swedish tennis player B08261968 Chris Boardman: Olympic cycling gold medallist B08121971 Pete Sampras: U.S. Wimbledon men's singles champion, B08121971C1993, 1994 & 1995 B08081988 Princess Beatrice of York *mmddyyyy Events *-------- ------------------------------------------------------------ S08261346 Battle of Crécy S08291350 The Spanish fleet was defeated by King Edward III at Winchelsea S08311422 Henry VI acceded as King at the age of nine months S08241572 The Massacre of Saint Bartholomew occured in France S08221642 English Civil War began S08101675 Royal Observatory founded at Greenwich S08131704 Battle of Blenheim S08241704 The English-Dutch navies defeated the French at Battle of Malaga S08291782 HMS 'Royal George' sank off Spithead while at anchor, with the S08291782Closs of over 900 lives S08081786 Mont Blanc first climbed S08011798 Battle of the Nile S08211808 Wellington defeated the French forces at the Battle of Vimiero S08241814 Washington, D.C., was captured by British troops, who burned down S08241814Cthe White House S08161819 Peterloo Massacre S08231821 Mexico was declared to be independent S08291831 Michael Faraday discovered the induction of electric currents S08011834 Abolition of slavery in all British possessions S08291835 The city of Melbourne, Australia, was founded S08231839 Hong Kong was taken by the British S08291842 The Hong Kong territories were leased by China to Britain S08301860 The first British tram service began in Birkenhead S08231873 The Albert bridge across the Thames at Chelsea was opened S08241875 Matthew Webb was the first man to swim the English Channel S08291882 The 'Sporting Times' published an 'obituary' for English cricket, S08291882C & first mentioned 'the Ashes' S08271883 Krakatoa volcano erupted S08311888 Mary Anne ‘Polly’ Nichols, a prostitute, was found dead in S08311888CWhitechapel, London. The first victim of Jack the Ripper S08291895 The Rugby League was formed from 21 clubs in the north of England S08301901 The vacuum cleaner was patented by Hubert Cecil Booth S08301905 Alberta became a province of Canada S08211911 The 'Mona Lisa' painting by Da Vinci was stolen from the Louvre S08041914 Declaration of war by Britain on Germany S08151914 Panama Canal opened S08231914 Japan declared war on Germany S08231914 The Battle of Mons began S08241914 The Allies retreated from Mons S08241916 The outskirts of London were raided by Zeppelin airships S08231921 Feisal I was crowned King of Iraq S08071924 British Summer Time act introduced S08211939 Civil Defence was started in Britain S08081940 The beginning of the main phase of the Battle of Britain S08131940 Adlertag (Eagle Day) — first day of German bombing offensive S08131940Cagainst British airfields & aircraft factories S08151940 Heaviest air battles of Battle of Britain S08201940 Churchill's speech 'Never in the field of human conflict....' S08231940 German bombs falling on London, started the Blitz S08251940 First R.A.F. raid on Berlin S08301941 The seige of Leningrad began S08231942 The Battle of Stalingrad began S08171943 The raid on Peenemünde rocket research establishment by R.A.F. S08251944 Paris liberated S08211944 The Dumbarton Oaks conference started S08061945 'Little Boy' atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima at 8:16 a.m. S08081945 U.S.S.R. declares war on Japan S08091945 'Fat Man' atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki at 11:02 a.m. S08141945 Surrender of Japan brings World War II to an end S08151945 VJ-Day S08211945 President Truman orders lend-lease to end S08151947 India & Pakistan granted independence from Britain S08231948 World Council of Churches formed S08101952 Inauguration of the European Coal & Steel Community S08291953 The U.S.S.R. exploded a hydrogen bomb S08311957 Malaya became independent S08211959 Hawaii became the 50th of the United States S08161960 Cyprus granted independence S08181961 Berlin Wall completed S08311962 Trinidad & Tobago became independent S08211968 Russian invasion of Czechoslavakia S08091974 U.S. President Richard Nixon resigned from office S08311983 A South Korean airliner was shot down by the U.S.S.R. killing S08311983C269 people on board S08211991 President Gorbachev reinstated after a failed coup *mmddyyyy Deaths *-------- ------------------------------------------------------------ D08280430 Saint Augustine of Hippo D08021100 King William II D08201153 Saint Bernard of Clairvaux D08311422 King Heny V D08301483 Louis XI, King of France D08271576 Titian D08291661 Louis Couperin: French composer D08191662 Blaise Pascal D08291666 Frans Hals D08241680 Colonel Thomas Blood: Irish adventurer D08311688 John Bunyan: writer D08291769 Edmond Hoyle: writer on card-playing D08251776 David Hume D08171786 Frederick the Great D08021788 Thomas Gainsborough: painter D08191819 James Watt: pioneer of steam power D08121848 George Stephenson: railway pioneer D08301856 Admiral Sir John Ross: explorer D08221862 Claude Debussy: French composer D08251867 Michael Faraday D08291877 Brigham Young: U.S. Mormon leader D08111890 Cardinal John Henry Newman D08131910 Florence Nightingale: nurse D08201912 William Booth D08111919 Andrew Carnegie: U.S. industrialist & millionaire D08021921 Enrico Caruso: Italian singer D08141922 Viscount Northcliffe: newspaper magnate D08031924 Joseph Conrad: Polish writer D08231926 Rudolph Valentino: Italian-born silent movie film star D08291930 Reverend William Archibald Spooner: perpetrator of 'spoonerisms' D08231937 Albert Roussel: French composer D08211940 Leo Trotsky assassinated D08131946 Herbert George Wells: writer D08211951 Leonard Constant Lambert: composer D08031954 Colette D08141956 Bertolt Brecht D08191959 Sir Jacob Epstein: sculptor D08231960 Oscar Hammerstein II: U.S. lyricist D08291960 Vicki Baum: U.S. novelist D08311969 Rocky Marciano: heavyweight boxer, killed in air crash D08311973 John Ford: U.S. film director D08231975 Lancelot Thomas Hogben: scientific writer D08291975 Éamon de Valera: Irish statesman D08161977 Elvis Presley D08201977 Groucho Marx: U.S. film star D08211980 Norman Shelley: actor D08291982 Ingrid Bergman: film actress D08311986 Henry Moore: sculptor D08291987 Lee Marvin: U.S. film actor D08021995 Miklos Rozsa: Aged 88, Hungarian composer D08021995 Barbara Lyon: Aged 63, U.S. actress. Daughter of Ben & Bebe D08051995 Ida Lupino, aged 81: British/U.S. actress D08071995 Brigid Brophy: writer D08111995 Kenneth Lo: Chinese/British writer & restauranteur, aged 81 D08131995 Elleston Trevor: writer D08141995 Phil Harris: U.S. singer famous for 'The Darktown Poker D08141995CClub' & 'That's What I Like About the South' D08211995 Alan Dell: broadcaster D08211995 Len Martin, aged 76: He read out the football results on BBC D08211995CGrandstand for 37 years D08221995 Anatole Fistoulari: Russian/U.K. conductor D08271995 Conrad Giles: Daily Express cartoonist, aged 78 D08281995 Dick Bentley: Australian comedian, aged 88