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- *mmddyyyy Birthdays
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- B06151330 Edward, the Black Prince
- B06271462 Louis XII: King of France
- B06271550 Charles IX: King of France
- B06111573 Ben Jonson
- B06281577 Peter Paul Reubens: Flemish painter
- B06091672 Peter the Great, of Russia
- B06301685 John Gay: composer
- B06171703 John Wesley: Founder of Methodism
- B06041738 King George III
- B06031771 Sydney Smith
- B06111776 John Constable: painter
- B06071778 George (Beau) Brummell
- B06091781 George Stephenson: locomotive engineer
- B06061799 Aleksandr Pushkin
- B06011801 Brigham Young: Founder of the Mormons
- B06201819 Jacques Offenbach: French composer
- B06121819 Charles Kingsley: writer
- B06021840 Thomas Hardy: writer
- B06271846 Charles Stewart Parnell: Irish nationalist leader
- B06191861 Douglas (later Earl) Haig
- B06111864 Richard Strauss: German composer
- B06131865 W.B. Yeats
- B06061875 Thomas Mann
- B06011878 John Masefield
- B06271880 Helen Keller: blind, deaf & mute scholar & author
- B06171882 Igor Stravinsky: Russian composer
- B06051883 John Maynard Keynes
- B06301891 Stanley Spencer
- B06091893 Cole Porter: U.S. popular music composer
- B06231894 Duke of Windsor
- B06121897 Anthony Eden (later Earl of Avon)
- B06251900 Earl Mountbatten of Burma
- B06211905 Jean-Paul Sartre
- B06011908 Percy Edwards: animal & bird impersonator
- B06281909 Eric Ambler: writer
- B06241912 Brian Johnston: the voice of cricket
- B06281913 George Lloyd: composer
- B06291914 Rafael Kubelik: conductor
- B06301917 Lena Horne: U.S. popular singer
- B06101921 Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
- B06281926 Mel Brooks: director, actor & writer
- B06181927 Paul (Clerk-)Eddington: actor
- B06281928 Sir Cyril Smith: former Liberal Democrat M.P.
- B06121929 Brigid Brophy: writer
- B06281930 Jack Gold: film director
- B06301931 James Loughran: conductor
- B06271932 Hugh Wood: composer
- B06301933 M.J.K. ‘Mike’ Smith: former English cricketer
- B06301935 Earl Alexander of Tunis
- B06281936 John Inman: actor
- B06271938 Tommy Cannon: comedian
- B06271938 Shirley Ann Field: actress
- B06271938 Alan Coren: author, journalist & broadcaster
- B06271940 Ian Lang: President of the Board of Trade
- B06291942 Honourable Charlotte Bingham: playwright & writer
- B06301952 Viscount Brookeborough
- B06291956 Mike McIntyre: Olympic yachting gold medallist
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- *mmddyyyy Events
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- S06151215 Magna Carta sealed
- S06241314 Battle of Bannockburn
- S06141645 Battle of Naseby, English Civil War
- S06201756 Black Hole of Calcutta
- S06231757 Battle of Plassey
- S06171775 Battle of Bunker Hill
- S06181812 U.S.A. declared war on Britain
- S06181815 Battle of Waterloo
- S06261846 Corn Laws repealed
- S06251876 Custer's Last Stand
- S06271898 The American, Joshua Slocum, completed the 1st solo voyage
- S06271898Caround the world
- S06131900 Boxer Rising in China
- S06281919 The signing of the Treaty of Versailles
- S06101940 Italy declares war on Britain & France
- S06301940 Germans begin occupying the Channel Islands
- S06281940 Britain recognises Charles de Gaulle as Free French leader
- S06141940 German army enters Paris
- S06221941 Germany invaded the U.S.S.R.
- S06061944 D-Day: the invasion of Europe was launched today
- S06271944 Cherbourg was taken by the Allied forces
- S06261945 United Nations Charter signed
- S06051947 Marshall Plan for European recovery proposed
- S06251950 Korean War began
- S06021953 Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II
- S06301978 Prince & Princess Michael of Kent married
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- *mmddyyyy Deaths
- D06080632 Muhammed
- D06071329 Robert I (Robert the Bruce)
- D06081376 Edward, the Black Prince
- D06241519 Lucrezia Borgia
- D06211527 Niccolo Machiavelli
- D06241643 John Hampden
- D06211652 Inigo Jones
- S06041798 Giacomo Casanova
- S06081809 Thomas Paine
- D06261830 King George IV
- D06201837 King William IV
- D06291861 Elizabeth Barrett Browning: writer
- D06091870 Charles Dickens: writer
- D06291895 Thomas Huxley
- D06031899 Johann Strauss (the younger)
- D06211908 Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov: Russian composer
- D06051910 O. Henry: U.S. short-story writer
- D06281914 Archduke Ferdinand assassinated
- D06101934 Frederick Delius: composer
- D06141936 G.K. Chesterton: writer
- D06191937 Sir James Barrie
- D06041941 Ex-Kaiser Wilhelm II
- D06141946 John Logie Baird: pioneer of television
- D06011968 Helen Keller
- D06161969 Earl Alexander of Tunis
- D06301973 Nancy Mitford: writer
- D06221974 Darius Milhaud
- D06151996 Ella Fitzgerald, aged 79: jazz singer
- D06061996 Glyn Worsnip: television presenter
- D06081996 Percy Edwards: animal & bird impersonator
- D06111996 Alan Weeks: sports commentator
- D06281996 Albert ‘Cubby’ Broccoli: U.S. film producer
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