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- *mmddyyyy Birthdays
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- B1116 Tiberius (42 B.C.)
- B11130354 Saint Augustine
- B11131312 King Edward III
- B11101483 Martin Luther
- B11291489 Margaret, Queen of Scotland
- B11011500 Benvenuto Cellini
- B11191600 King Charles I
- B11301667 Jonathan Swift: writer
- B11211694 François-Marie Arouet (Voltaire)
- B11151708 William Pitt (the elder)
- B11261731 William Cowper
- B11021755 Marie Antoinette
- B11281757 William Blake
- B11291797 Domenico Gaetano Donizetti: Italian composer
- B11031801 Karl Baedecker: German guide-book publisher
- B11031801 Vincenzo Bellini: composer of operas
- B11291803 Christian Johann Doppler: Austrian physicist
- B11111821 Fyodor Dostoyevsky: Russian writer
- B11291832 Louisa May Alcott: U.S. writer
- B11251835 Andrew Carnegie: Scottish/U.S. industrialist
- B11301835 Mark Twain: U.S. writer
- B11181836 William Schwenk Gilbert: composer
- B11121840 Auguste Rodin
- B11131850 Robert Louis Stephenson
- B11061854 John Philip Sousa: U.S. composer
- B11231859 Billy the Kid: U.S. outlaw
- B11071867 Marja Sklodowska (later Marie Curie)
- B11221869 André Gide
- B11301874 Winston Churchill
- B11231876 Manuel de Falla: Spanish composer
- B11251881 Angelo Roncalli (later Pope John XXIII)
- B11171887 Bernard Law Montgomery: World War II general
- B11141889 Pandit Nehru: Indian statesman
- B11181889 Amelita Galli-Curci: opera singer
- B11221890 Charles de Gaulle
- B11291895 Busby Berkeley: U.S. film director & choreographer
- B11011897 Naomi Mitchison: writer
- B11291898 Clive Staples Lewis: scholar & writer
- B11151891 Erwin Rommel: German general
- B11031901 Leopold III, King of the Belgians
- B11011907 Terence Cuneo: painter
- B11181907 The Earl of Malmesbury
- B11181908 Alan Pryce-Jones: book critic, writer & journalist
- B11201908 Alistair Cook: journalist & broadcaster
- B11231909 Nigel Tranter: writer
- B11051911 General Sir John Hackett: soldier & scholar
- B11121911 Chad Varah: founder of the Samaritans
- B11231911 Sir Peter Saunders: theatrical producer
- B11251912 Francis Durbridge: playwright & writer
- B11051913 Vivien Leigh: actress
- B11211913 Roy Boulting: film producer
- B11271913 Robert Dougall: former BBC broadcaster & news reader
- B11241914 Mr Lynn Chadwick: sculptor
- B11011915 Michael Denison: actor
- B11041916 Walter Cronkite: American radio & TV correspondent
- B11231916 Michael Gough: actor
- B11191917 Mrs Indira Gandhi
- B11071918 Billy Graham: evangelist
- B11031919 Sir Ludovic Kennedy: writer & broadcaster
- B11121919 Sir Ronald Millar: playwright & screenwriter
- B11281919 Keith Miller: former Australia cricketer
- B11201920 Dulcie Gray: actress, playwright & writer
- B11251920 Lord Weatherill: Speaker of the House of Commons 1983-92
- B11271921 Alexander Dubcek: Chechoslovakian statesman
- B11031922 Charles Bronson: U.S. film actor
- B11081922 Professor Christian Barnard: pioneer of heart transplants
- B11141922 Dr. Boutros Boutros-Ghali: Secretary-General of the United Nations
- B11101923 Robert Carrier: cookery writer & broadcaster
- B11011923 Victoria de los Angeles: U.S. operatic soprano
- B11071924 Wolf Mankowitz: writer & playwright
- B11091925 Alistair Horne: writer
- B11111925 June Whitfield: actress
- B11171925 Sir Charles Mackerras: conductor
- B11271925 Ernie Wise: comedian
- B11071926 Dame Joan Sutherland: Australian operatic soprano
- B11091926 Hugh Leonard: playwright
- B11141926 Quentin Crewe: writer & restauranteur
- B11021928 Paul Johnson: writer
- B11221928 Pat Koechlin-Smythe: former champion show-jumper
- B11031929 John Biffen: M.P.
- B11271929 Alan Simpson: writer & scriptwriter
- B11291929 Derek Jameson: former newspaper editor, now radio personality
- B11141930 Peter Katin: concert pianist
- B11151930 J.G. Ballard: writer
- B11221930 Sir Peter Hall: director of plays, films & opera
- B11291930 Dame Shirley Porter: Lord Mayor of Westminster 1991-92
- B11061931 Mike Nichols: film director
- B11211931 Malcolm Williamson: Master of the Queen’s Music
- B11281931 Dervla Murphy: writer
- B11291931 Geoffrey Moorhouse: writer
- B11031932 Albert Reynolds: Prime Minister of the Irish Republic 1992-94
- B11081932 Tamàs Vasary: concert pianist & conductor
- B11151932 Petula Clark: singer
- B11291932 Jacques Chirac: French statesman
- B11031933 John Barry: musician & composer
- B11231933 Krzysztof Penderecki: composer
- B11021934 Ken Rosewall: former Australia tennis player
- B11031934 Kenneth Baker: M.P.
- B11091934 Ronald Harwood: writer
- B11171934 Fenella Fielding: actress
- B11191934 David Lloyd-Jones: conductor
- B11211934 Beryl Bainbridge: actress & writer
- B11011935 Gary Player: S. African golfer
- B11031935 Jeremy Brett: actor
- B11051935 Lester Piggott: former champion jockey
- B11131935 Most Reverend George Carey: current Archbishop of Canterbury
- B11141935 King Hussein of Jordan
- B11031936 Roy Emerson: Wimbledon Men's Singles champion in 1964 & 1965
- B11071936 Dame Gwyneth Jones: Welsh operatic soprano
- B11171936 John Wells: writer, actor & director
- B11031937 Nicholas Budgen: M.P.
- B11091937 Roger McGough: poet
- B11271937 Rodney Bewes: actor
- B11271937 Verity Lambert: film & television producer
- B11261939 John Gummer: Secretary of State for the Environment
- B11261939 Tina Turner: U.S. popular singer
- B11221940 Terry Gilliam: animator, actor, writer & film director
- B11271940 John Alderton: actor
- B11011941 John Pullin: former England rugby captain
- B11051941 Art Garfunkel: U.S. singer & songwriter
- B11061941 James Bowman: counter-tenor
- B11061941 Sally Field: actress
- B11181941 David Hemmings: actor, producer & director
- B11091942 Tom Weiskopf: U.S. golfer
- B11151942 Daniel Barenboim: Israeli classical pianist & conductor
- B11161942 Willie Carson: champion jockey
- B11171942 Martin Scorsese: U.S. film director
- B11221942 Tom Conti: actor
- B11241942 Billy Connolly: Scottish comedian
- B11071943 Joni Mitchell: popular singer
- B11221943 Billie Jean King: winner of 20 Wimbledon tennis titles
- B11101944 Sir Tim Rice: lyricist
- B11171945 Jeremy Hanley: M.P., Minister of State, Foreign & Commonweath Office
- B11301945 Radu Lupu: concert pianist
- B11231946 Diana Quick: actress
- B11111947 Rodney Marsh: former Australia cricketer
- B11211947 Nickolas Grace: actor
- B11141948 Prince Charles, Prince of Wales
- B11031948 Lulu (Marie Lawrie): popular singer
- b11301948 Marguerite Porter: ballet dancer
- B11031949 Larry Holmes: heavyweight boxing champion
- B11191949 Raymond Blanc: chef & restauranteur
- B11291949 David Rintoul: actor
- B11251950 Yvonne Kenny: opera singer
- B11051951 Dennis Andries: three-times winner of world light-heavyweight title
- B11251952 Imran Khan: former Pakistan cricket captain
- B11071953 Lucinda Green: champion three-day eventer
- B11291953 Dusty Hare: former England rugby player
- B11161953 Griff Rhys Jones: actor, writer & producer
- B11211953 Tina Brown: Editor of ‘The New Yorker’
- B11141954 Bernard Hinault: five-times winner of the Tour de France
- B11241955 Ian Botham: former England cricketer
- B11041956 Joan Rodgers: soprano
- B11161956 The Duke of Northumberland
- B11231956 Bruce Edgar: New Zealand cricketer
- B11211958 Tim Robinson: cricketer
- B11281958 Kriss Akabusi: Olympic athlete
- B11281959 Stephen Roche: winner of the 1987 Tour de France
- B11301960 Gary Lineker: former England football captain
- B11031961 Viscount Linley: son of Princess Margaret & the Earl of Snowdon
- B11161961 Frank Bruno: boxer
- B11191962 Jodie Foster: actress
- B11071963 John Barnes: footballer
- B11101965 Robert Jones: Wales rugby player
- B11221967 Boris Becker: Wimbledon Men's Singles Champion 1985 & 1986
- B11151977 Peter Phillips: son of the Princess Royal & Capt. Mark Phillips
- B11191977 Lady Davina Windsor: daughter of the Duke & Duchess of Windsor
- *mmddyyyy Events
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- S1130 St. Andrew's Day
- S11031493 Columbus discovered Dominica on his second voyage
- S11031534 The Act of Supremacy was passed, making the king head of the
- S11031534CEnglish Church
- S11051605 Gunpowder Plot foiled at the Houses of Parliament
- S11281660 The Royal Society founded
- S11011755 The great Lisbon earthquake
- S11241859 Charles Darwin's 'Origin of Species' published
- S11161869 Suez Canal opened
- S11101871 Henry Morton Stanley met David Livingstone at Ujiji
- S11031903 The independence of Panama from Columbia was proclaimed
- S11191903 The signing of the Panana Canal Treaty by the U.S.A. & Panama
- S11031909 William Howard Taft was elected as 27th president of the U.S.A.
- S11071917 The October Revolution in Russia
- S11091918 The abdication of the Kaiser
- S11111918 Armistice Day: the end of World War I
- S11291918 The republic of Lithuania was proclaimed at Riga
- S11091920 Danzig proclaimed a free city
- S11271919 Treaty of Neuilly signed by the Allies & Bulgaria
- S11141922 The beginning of British daily broadcasting from 2LO, Savoy Hill
- S11081923 Munich Putsch
- S11031927 The musical 'Hit the Deck' first performed in London
- S11081932 Roosevelt elected U.S. President
- S11141932 Book tokens first went on sale
- S11081939 Hitler escapes assassination attempt in Munich beer hall
- S11061940 Roosevelt elected to third presidential term
- S11141940 German bombing of Coventry begins
- S11241940 Bristol first bombed
- S11141940 Coventry Cathedral was destroyed by German bombing
- S11141941 The aircraft carrier ‘Ark Royal’ was sunk
- S11081942 The Allies land in North Africa
- S11291942 The Eighth Army began its offensive in North Africa
- S11291945 Yugoslavia declared a ‘Federal People's Republic’
- S11201947 Wedding of Princess (now Queen) Elizabeth
- S11011952 First hydrogen bomb exploded
- S11141956 The musical ‘The Bells are Ringing’, first performed in London
- S11031957 Laika, the Russian dog, was put into space on board Sputnik II
- S11141969 Colour TV transmission began in Britain
- S11031978 Dominica became an independent republic
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- *mmddyyyy Deaths
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- D1127 Quintus Horatius Flaccus (Horace): Latin poet (8 B.C.)
- D11121035 King Canute
- D11161272 King Henry III
- D11131460 Prince Henry the Navigator
- D11291516 Giovanni Bellini: Venetian painter
- D11291530 Thomas Wolsey: Cardinal & Lord Chancellor
- D11291543 Hans Holbein the Younger: German painter
- D11241572 John Knox
- D11121595 Sir John Hawkins
- D11081674 John Milton
- D11141687 Nell Gwyn
- D11211695 Henry Purcell: composer
- D11291780 Maria Theresa, Empress of Austria
- D11171796 Catherine the Great of Russia
- D11291813 Giambattista Bodoni: Italian typeface designer & printer
- D11191828 Franz Schubert: Austrian composer
- D10261836 John McAdam
- D11041847 Félix Mendelssohn-Bartoldy: German composer
- D11081890 César Franck: Belgian composer
- D11061893 Pyotr Tchaikovsky: Russian composer
- D11221900 Sir Arthur Sullivan: composer
- D11301900 Oscar Wilde: Irish writer
- D11201910 Count Leo Tolstoy: Russian writer
- D11291924 Giacomo Puccini: Italian opera composer
- D11031926 Annie Oakley: U.S. entertainer & markswoman
- D11021950 George Bernard Shaw: Irish writer
- D11031954 Henri Matisse: French painter
- D11041918 Wilfred Owen: poet
- D11111936 Sir Edward German: composer
- D11091940 Neville Chamberlain: British Prime Minister
- D11291954 Sir George Robey: actor & comedian
- D11051955 Maurice Utrillo
- D11221963 President John F. Kennedy assassinated
- D11261963 Amelita Galli-Curci: operatic singer
- D11281968 Enid Blyton: children's writer
- D11091970 General Charles de Gaulle
- D11291975 Graham Hill: racing driver was killed in an air crash
- D11231976 André Malraux
- D11291981 Natalie Wood: U.S. film actress
- D11041995 Marti Caine, aged 50: comedienne & singer. She died of lymphatic
- D11041995Ccancer
- D11041995 Yistzak Rabin, Prime Minister of Israel, was assassinated in
- D11041995CTel-Aviv. He was aged 73
- D11051995 Paul Eddington: actor, died of mycosis fungoides, a rare form
- D11051995Cof skin cancer. He was aged 68. Came to fame playing Gerry
- D11051995CLeadbeater in ‘The Good Life’ & Jim Hacker in ‘Yes, Minister’
- D11121995 Jackie Mann: WW II flying ace & Beirut hostage for over 2 years
- D11131955 Sir Robert Stephens: actor
- D11171995 Ralph Whitlock: farmer, writer & radio broadcaster
- D11241995 Louis Malle: French film director
- D11271995 Anthony Oliver: actor, antiques dealer, thriller writer &
- D11271995Cauthority on Victorian Staffordshire pottery
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