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- *mmddyyyy Birthdays
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- B05011769 Duke of Wellington
- B05021729 Catherine the Great, of Russia
- B05031469 Niccolò Machiavelli
- B05031898 Golda Meir: Israeli Prime Minister
- B05041825 Thomas Huxley
- B05051818 Karl Marx
- B05061856 Sigmund Freud
- B05071812 Robert Browning
- B05071833 Johannes Brahms: German composer
- B05071840 Pyotr Tchaikovsky: Russian composer
- B05081884 Harry Truman: U.S. statesman & President
- B05091800 John Brown
- B05091860 J.M. (later Sir James) Barrie: author/playwright
- B05111888 Irving Berlin: Russian/U.S. composer
- B05121820 Florence Nightingale
- B05131842 Arthur (later Sir Arthur) Sullivan: composer
- B05151645 Judge Jeffreys
- B05151859 Pierre Curie
- B05141907 Dick Bentley: Australian comedian
- B05171749 Edward Jenner
- B05181872 Bertrand (later 3rd Earl) Russell
- B05181920 Pope John Paul II
- B05211688 Alexander Pope
- B05211780 Elizabeth Fry: Prison reformer
- B05221813 Richard Wagner: German composer
- B05221859 Arthur (later Sir Arthur) Conan Doyle
- B05231799 Thomas Hood
- B05241819 Queen Victoria
- B05251803 Ralph Waldo Emerson
- B05251879 Max Aitken (Later Lord Beaverbrook)
- B05261650 John Churchill (later Duke of Malborough)
- B05261886 Al Jolson: U.S. singer
- B05281660 King George I
- B05281759 William Pitt (the younger)
- B05081904 John Snagge: BBC radio commentator & announcer
- B05141906 Dr. Hastings Banda: President of Malawi 1966-94
- B05291917 John F. Kennedy: U.S. President
- B05241925 Mai Zetterling: Swedish actress
- B05141934 Sian Phillips: Actress
- B05141940 Chay Blyth: Round-the-world yachtsman
- B05141945 Francesca Annis: Actress
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- *mmddyyyy Events
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- S05011851 The Great Exhibition opened at Crystal Palace, London
- S05031951 Festival of Britain opened
- S05041780 The Epsom Derby first run
- S05041926 The General Strike began in England
- S05061954 The first 4 minute mile by Roger Bannister, at Oxford
- S05071915 The liner Lusitania sunk by German submarine
- S05081945 VE-Day
- S05101940 Winston Churchill became Prime Minister
- S05101940 German troops invade Holland, Belgium, Luxembourg & France
- S05121926 The General Strike ended in England
- S05141940 The Local Defence Volunteers (Home Guard) formed in Britain
- S05141948 State of Israel proclaimed
- S05161929 The first film Oscars awarded
- S05161943 The Dambusters raid over Germany
- S05171900 Mafeking relieved
- S05211927 Charles Lindbergh landed in Paris after his Atlantic flight
- S05271679 Habeas Corpus Act introduced
- S05261940 Operation Dynamo: evacuation of Allied troops from Dunkirk began
- S05291953 Mount Everest first climbed
- S05311669 Samuel Pepys's diary ends
- S05311916 Battle of Jutland
- S05091945 German troops surrender in the Channel Islands
- S05091945 Liberation Day in the Channel Islands
- S05141955 Creation of the Warsaw Pact
- S05151955 Soviet withdrawal from Austria
- S05231949 Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany) comes into existance
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- *mmddyyyy Deaths
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- D05011873 David Livingstone: Scottish explorer
- D05021519 Leonardo da Vinci
- D05051821 Napoleon Bonaparte
- D05091903 Paul Gauguin: French painter
- D05111778 William Pitt, Earl of Chatham
- D05131930 Fridtjof Nansen: Explorer
- D05151978 Sir Robert Menzies
- D05171935 Paul Dukas: French composer
- D05181911 Gustav Mahler: Austrian composer
- D05190988 Saint Dunstan
- D05191536 Anne Boleyn executed
- D05191898 William Ewart Gladstone: statesman
- D05201506 Christopher Columbus
- D05231868 Kit Carson
- D05231906 Henrik Ibsen: Norwegian playwright
- D05241543 Nicolaus Copernicus
- D05261703 Samuel Pepys: diarist
- D05271564 John Calvin
- D05271964 Jawalharlal Nehru: Indian statesman
- D05281972 Duke of Windsor
- D05301431 Joan of Arc executed
- D05301640 Peter Paul Rubens: Flemish painter
- D05311809 Josef Haydn: Austrian composer
- D05131996 Joan Thirkettle: ITV reporter, aged 48
- D05201996 Jon Pertwee, aged 76: actor
- D05231996 Patrick Cargill, aged 77: actor
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