1940 Birthday John Alderton, Gainsborough England, actor, Zardoz 1861 Birthday Halford John Mackinder, Gainsborough Lincolnshire, geographer 1788 Death Thomas Gainsborough, English painter (Blue Boy), dies at 61 1727 Birthday Thomas Gainsborough, English painter, Blue Boy, baptized 1643 Event Cromwell defeats Royalist at Battle of Gainsborough
