1995 Harold Larwood, cricket (98 wkts bowling for Engl 1926-34), dies at 91
1995 Marguerite Kelsey, Engl painter/sculptor model (Haunting), dies at 86
1995 Frederick West, Engl contractor/serial killer, commits suicide at 53
1994 Elizabeth Lefanu Maconchy, Engl composer (My Dark Heart), dies at 87
1994 Deborah Bear, Engl still photographer (Pasolini/Fellini), dies at 44
1993 Kamaran Abdalla, Iraq/Engl/Neth actor (Best Thing in Life), dies at 34
1992 Cardew "the Cad" [Douglas] Robinson, Engl comedian (Alfie), dies at 75
1990 Michael Powell, Engl director (Life and Death of Col Blimp), dies at 84
1990 Marina Ogilvy (daughter of Engl princess Alexandra) weds Paul Mowatt
1990 Terry Thomas, Engl comic (Heroes), dies of Parkinson's disease at 78
1988 James Ogilvy, under Engl princess Alexandra, marries Julia Rawlinson
1982 Anna Freud, Austria/Engl psychoanalyst/daughter of Sigmund, dies at 86
1972 William HAF, Engl prince/grandson of George V, dies in accident at 29
1971 Test Cricket debut of Imran Khan, vs. Engl at Edgbaston (5, 0-36, 0-19)
1967 U.S.S.R. ratifies treaty with Engl and U.S. banning nuclear weapons in space
1965 5:16 PM, massive power failure in New Engl, and Ontario (New York blackout)
1965 Tim Berrett, Tunbridge Wells Engl, Canadian 20k walker, Oly-14-92, 96
1964 W Maxwell Aitken, Lord Beaverbrook, Engl Min of Info, dies at 85
1962 Philip Brown, Birmingham Engl, 4x400m runner 1984 Olympics silver
1959 Kamaran Abdalla, Iraq/Engl/Neth actor, Goede Tijden Selechte Tijden
1957 Lena Ashwell, Engl actress/theatrical manager (Kingsway), dies at 84
1952 [Richard] Stafford Cripps, Engl min of Plane-manufacturing, dies at 62
1950 Anne Elizabeth Alice Louise Windsor, Engl, Princess/olympic equestrian
1949 Paul Rodgers, Engl, rocker, Bad Company-Feel Like Makin Love, Firm
1946 Roger Tolchard, cricketer, Engl keeper played Tests as a batsman 1977
1946 Harold Jackson, Hattiesburg, MS, NFL wide receiver, LA, New Engl
1945 Betram Home Ramsay, Engl adm/Cmdr Naval Forces (Normandy), dies at 61
1938 Samuel Alexander, Engl philosopher (Space, time and deity), dies at 79
1937 Ernest Rutherford baron of Nelson, Engl physicist (Nobel 1908), dies
1935 English prince Henry (under George V) weds Alice Montagu-Douglas-Scott
1932 Anne Heywood, [Violet Pretty], Engl, Miss GB, 1949, /actress, Brain
1930 Dawn Addams, Felixstown Engl, actress, Alan Young Show, Star Maidens
1930 1st woman to fly solo from Engl to Australia takes-off (Amy Johnson)
1929 Timothy Colman, Engl manufacturer/multi-millionaire, Reckitt and Colman
1928 William HT Gairdner, Engl missionary (Nile Mission Press), dies at 54
1918 C Hubert H Parry, Engl musicologist/composer (Jerusalem), dies at 70
1918 Isabel Dean, Engl, actress, 5 Days one Summer, Virgin Island, Ransom
1916 Francis W. Warre-Cornish, Engl vice-provost of Eton (1893-1916), dies
1911 William Schwenck Gilbert, Engl writer (Gilbert and Sullivan), dies at 74
1911 Norman Oldfield, cricketer, Engl batsman one Test vs. WI 1939, 80 and 19
1909 France's Louis Bleriot, makes 1st airplane flight across Engl Channel
1902 Nikolaus Pevsner, Engl, art historian, The Buildings of England
1898 Ninette de Valois, [Edris Stannus], Engl, ballerina, Royal Ballet
1894 Robert Louis Stevenson, Engl writer (Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde), dies at 45
1894 Herbert Sutcliffe, cricketer, all-time great opening batsman for Engl
1892 Rebecca West, [Cicily I F Andrews], Engl author, Meaning of Treason
1889 [Richard] Stafford Cripps, Engl min of Plane-manufacturing, 1942-45
1886 Percy Holmes, cricketer, Engl, 555 partners with Sutcliffe for Yorks
1885 Sarah Ann Henley survives 76-m jump from Clifton Bridge, Avon, Engl
1873 Walter de la Mare, Engl poet/author (Behold the Dreamer), dies at 43
1870 Netherlands and Engl sign "Koelietraktaat" Br-Indian contract work in Suriname
1861 George HG earl of Aberdeen, Engl min of Foreign affairs, dies at 76
1861 Alfred North Whitehead, Engl mathematician/philosopher, Adv of Ideas
1855 Mary Russell Mitford, Engl playwright and poet (Julian), dies at 67
1847 Ellen Alice Terry, Coventry Engl, actress/director, Imperial Theatre
1844 John Dalton, Engl physicist/chemist (molecular theorist), dies at 77
1827 Battle at Navarino: Engl/Russ/French fleet beat Turk/Egyptian fleet
1826 John Flaxman, Engl sculptor (tombs at St. Paul's Cathedral), dies at 71
1819 Charles Kingsley, [Parson Lot], Engl vicar/historian, Westward Ho!
1815 Edward Pakenham, Engl general (Battle of New Orleans), dies in battle
1807 John Opie, Engl painter/illustrator: Shakespeare gallery, dies at 45
1804 Joseph Priestley, Engl/US theologist/philosopher/chemist, dies at 70
1765 William August duke of Cumberland, Engl supreme commander, dies at 44
1764 John Wilkes thrown out of Engl House of Commons for "Essay on Women"
1730 Charles Watson-Wentworth 2nd marquis of Rockingham, Engl PM, 1765-76
1729 Anthony Collins, Engl philosopher (On Liberty and Necessity), dies at 53
1726 Jeremy Collier, Engl bishop/historian/opponent to theater, dies at 75
1719 Engl/Hannover/Saxony-Poland/Austria sign anti-Prussian/Russian pact
1709 Battle at Malplaquet: Engl/Aust/Dutch Great Alliance beat France
1702 Battle in Bay of Vigo: Neth/Engl fleet destroy Span/French fleet
1702 Robert Spencer 2nd earl of Sunderland, Engl PM (1687-88), dies at 61
1693 Thomas Pelham-Holles 1st duke of Newcastle, Engl minister of finance
1670 Engl king Charles II and Fr king Louis XIV sign anti-Dutch treaty
1667 Jonathan Swift, Engl, satirist, Gulliver's Travels, A Modest Proposal
1658 Robert Rich 2nd earl of Warwick, Engl Lord High Admiral, dies at ñ70
1644 William Chillingworth, Engl theologian, Cambridge Platonist, dies
1641 Prince Willem II (14) marries Engl princess Henriette Mary Stuart (9)
1495 William Stanley, Engl lord chamberlain, executed for conspiracy
1483 Henry Stafford, earl of Buckingham/constable of Engl, beheaded at 49
1217 Alexander Neckum de Sancto Albano, Engl encyclopedist, dies at 59
1035 Knut II, the Great, Viking king of Engl/Den/Nor (1014-35), dies at 39
709 Aldhelmus of Ealdhelm, Engl abbot/bishop/poet/saint, dies at about 69
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