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- \*mmddyyyy Birthdays
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- B07111274 Robert I, (Robert the Bruce)
- B07201304 Petrarch
- B07021489 Thomas Cranmer
- B07101509 John Calvin: reformer
- B07151573 Inigo Jones
- B07151606 Rembrandt van Rijn: Dutch painter
- B07161723 Sir Joshua Reynolds: painter
- B07031728 Robert Adam
- B07241783 Simón Bolivar
- B07241802 Alexandre Dumas: French writer
- B07011804 Aurore Dupin (alias George Sand)
- B07041807 Giuseppe Garibaldi: Italian patriot
- B07181811 William Makepeace Thackeray: writer
- B07191834 Egdar Degas: French painter
- B07081836 Joseph Chamberlain
- B07081839 John D. Rockefeller
- B07251848 Arthur Balfour
- B07051853 Cecil Rhodes: the founder of Rhodesia
- B07261856 George Bernard Shaw: Irish writer
- B07071860 Gustav Mahler: Austrian composer
- B07301863 Henry Ford: U.S. car manufacturer
- B07271870 Hilaire Belloc
- B07261875 Carl Jung
- B07231883 Alan Brooke (later Viscount Alanbrooke)
- B07291883 Benito Mussolini: Italian dictator
- B07121884 Amedeo Modigliani
- B07261894 Aldous Huxley
- B07241895 Robert Graves
- B07211899 Ernest Hemingway
- B07091901 Dame Barbara Cartland: writer
- B07021905 René Lacoste: Wimbledon Men’s Singles Champion in 1925 & 1928
- B07091908 Sir George Edwards: Chairman of British Aerospace 1963-75
- B07071911 Gian Carlo Menotti: Italian/U.S. composer
- B07141913 Gerald Ford: former U.S. President
- B07011916 Olivia De Havilland: UK/US actress
- B07091916 Sir Edward Heath: politician & former Conservative Prime
- B07091916CMinister 1970-74
- B07111916 Gough Whitlam QC: Prime Minister of Australia 1972-75
- B07041918 Alec & Eric Bedser, twin brothers: former English cricketers
- B07091918 John Heath-Stubbs: poet
- B07101919 Ian Wallace: singer, actor & broadcaster
- B07041922 Anthony Oliver: actor, antiques dealer, thriller writer &
- B07041922Cauthority on Victorian Staffordshire pottery
- B07071922 Pierre Cardin: fashion designer
- B07011926 Hans Werner Henze: German composer
- B07031927 Ken Russell: film director
- B07041927 Gina Lollobridiga: Italian actress & photographer
- B07041927 Neil Simon: U.S. playwright
- B07091927 Dame Jill Knight: M.P.
- B07031928 Evelyn Anthony: writer
- B07091929 King Hassan II, of Morocco
- B07111929 Hermann Prey: German baritone
- B07031930 Carlos Kleiber: German conductor
- B07101930 Josephine Veasey: opera singer
- B07111930 Julia Trevelyan Oman: designer
- B07011931 Leslie Caron: French actress
- B07141931 Sir Robert Stephens: actor
- B07041934 Colin Welland: actor & playwright
- B07061935 The Dalai Lama
- B07091935 Michael Williams: actor
- B07061936 Dave Allen: comedian
- B07091936 Richard Wilson: actor
- B07031937 Tom Stoppard: playwright & author
- B07061937 Vladimir Ashkenazy: classical pianist & conductor
- B07091937 David Hockney: artist
- B07021938 Lord Owen: former SDP leader & Labour Foreign Secretary
- B07061938 Tony Lewis: cricket commentator & former England cricket captain
- B07061939 Mary Peters: Olympic pentathlon gold medallist in 1972
- B07021940 Kenneth Clarke: Conservative Chancellor of the Exchequer
- B07071940 Ringo Starr: former member of the Beatles
- B07071941 Bill Oddie: actor & ornithologist
- B07041942 Prince Michael of Kent
- B07051943 Mark Cox: former Davis Cup tennis player
- B07071944 Tony Jacklin: golfer
- B07111944 Peter de Savary: yachtsman
- B07101945 Virginia Wade: Wimbledon Ladies Singles Champion in 1977
- B07101949 Sunil Gavaskar: former India cricketer
- B07061950 Geraldine James: actress
- B07031951 Sir Richard Hadlee: former New Zealand cricketer
- B07051954 John Wright: former New Zealand cricket captain
- B07091956 Tom Hanks: U.S. actor
- B07061958 Jennifer Saunders: comedienne & writer
- B07101958 Fiona Shaw: actress
- B07011961 Diana, the Princess of Wales
- B07011961 Carl Lewis: athlete
- B07031962 Tom Cruise: U.S. actor
- B07041962 Pam Shriver: U.S. tennis player
- *mmddyyyy Events
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- S07041776 U.S. Declaration of Independence approved
- S07051948 Britain’s National Health Service inaugurated
- S07141789 Storming of the Bastille, in Paris began
- S07161945 First atomic bomb tested at Alamogordo, New Mexico
- S07171841 ‘Punch’ magazine first published
- S07031863 The end of the Battle of Gettysburg
- S07141867 Dynamite was first demonstrated by Alfred Nobel
- S07171936 Spanish Civil War began
- S07191553 Lady Jane Grey deposed
- S07201969 The first Moon landing
- S07221812 The Battle of Salamanca
- S07251909 Louis Blériot flew across English Channel
- S07271953 The Korean War ended
- S07291588 Spanish Armada defeated
- S07011916 The beginning of the Battle of the Somme in World War I.
- S07011916COver 20,000 Allied troops were killed this day
- S07021940 Hitler orders the invasion of England: Operation ‘Sea Lion’
- S07031940 Royal Navy sinks French warships at Mers El Kébir, Algeria
- S07101940 First large-scale bombing raid on Britain
- S07101940 The first phase of the Battle of Britain commences
- S07221940 SOE (Special Operations Executive) created in London to
- S07221940Caid European resistance
- S07251940 U.S.S.R. annexes Estonia, Latvia & Lithuania
- S07101943 The Allied landings in Sicily started today
- S07071946 The bikini swimsuit, designed by Louis Réard, was first worn by
- S07071946CFrench model Micheline Bernardini
- S07141949 First Soviet atomic bomb test
- S07241948 Soviet blockade of West Berlin begins
- S07261948 Berlin airlift begins after Soviet blocade of city
- S07041947 Philippine Islands granted full independence
- S07041945 Four-power occupation of Berlin takes effect
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- *mmddyyyy Deaths
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- D07021850 Sir Robert Peel
- D07021914 Joseph Chamberlain
- D07021961 Ernest Hemingway
- D07031908 Joel Chandler Harris (Uncle Remus)
- D07041826 Thomas Jefferson
- D07061189 King Henry II
- D07061893 Guy de Maupassant: French writer
- D07061960 Aneurin Bevan
- D07071307 King Edward I
- D07071930 Sir Arthur Conan Doyle: writer
- D07081797 Edmund Burke
- D07081822 Percy Bysshe Shelley: poet
- D07101099 Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar (El Cid)
- D07111937 George Gershwin: U.S. composer
- D07111957 Aga Khan III
- D07121536 Erasmus
- D07131951 Arnold Schoenberg
- S07151904 Anton Chekhov: Russian playwright & writer
- D07171790 Adam Smith
- D07181304 Petrarch
- D07181817 Jane Austen: writer
- D07201937 Guglielmo Marconi: radio pioneer
- D07211796 Robert Burns: Scottish poet
- D07211928 Dame Ellen Terry
- D07221976 Sir Mortimer Wheeler: archaelogist
- D07231885 Ulysses S. Grant: U.S. general
- D07271946 Gertrude Stein
- D07281741 Antonio Vivaldi: Italian composer
- D07281750 Johann Sebastian Bach: German composer
- D07291856 Robert Schumann: German composer
- D07291890 Vincent van Gogh
- D07301718 William Penn
- D07301898 Prince Otto van Bismarck
- D07311556 Saint Ignatius of Loyola
- D07311886 Franz Liszt: Hungarian composer
- D07151990 Margaret Lockwood: actress
- D07161995 Donald Sinclair: vet: (Siegfried Farnon in the James Herriot books)
- D07011996 Alfred Marks: comedian, aged 75
- D07041996 Clay Jones, aged 72: chairman of BBC Radio’s Gardeners Question
- D07041996CTime