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2012 Event - The Formula One Belgian Grand Prix held at Spa-Francorchamps, is won by 32 year-old Jenson Button

2011 Event - Australian Casey Stoner wins the Australian Motorcycle Grand Prix at the 2011 MotoGP World Championship

2011 Event - At the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe, Danedream wins with a record racing speed of 2:24.49, the second German horse to win since 1975

2003 Death - Barry Sheene, motorcycle road racer, winner, Formula 750 World Championship and 1976 British Grand Prix, dies of esophagus and stomach cancer

1994 Death - Ayrton Senna, Brazilian Grand prix driver, dies in crash at 34

1994 Death - Roland Ratzenberger, race car driver, claimed 1962 as birth year to appear younger and extend racing career, won 1986 Brands Hatch Formula Ford Festival, dies while qualifying for San Marino Prix, in 1994

1992 Event - Prix Goncourt awarded to Patrick Chamoiseau for "Texaco"

1991 Death - Yves Montand, actor (Idol, Grand Prix), dies of a heart attack at 70

1986 Event - Spanish Grand Prix decided by 0.014 of a second

1978 Birthday - Derrick Delmore, Camp Springs, Maryland, fig skater, 1996 Grand Prix champ

1972 Death - Robert M Casadesus, French pianist/composer (Prix Diemer), dies at 73

1960 Death - Rene Maran, Martiniques writer (Batouala, Prix Goncourt), dies

1957 Birthday - Alan Donnelly, born in England, politician, Labor Party, leader, European Parliamentary Labor Party, 1998 - 2005, founded, serves, as executive chairman of public affairs company, Sovereign Strategy, represents President of Federation Internationale de l'Automobile, at Grand Prix

1955 Event - Oldest man to drive in the Grand Prix (aged 55) finishes 6th

1954 Event - Simone de Beauvoir receives Prix Goncourt

1954 Birthday - Philippe Alliot, race driver, grand prix

1954 Birthday - Riccardo Patrese, driver, Grand Prix

1950 Birthday - Barry Sheene, born in London, England, motorcycle road racer, winner, Formula 750 World Championship and 1976 British Grand Prix

1943 Birthday - Chris Amon, Grand Prix racer

1943 Birthday - Helmut Marko, auto racer, Le Mans Grand Prix

1939 Birthday - Jackie Stewart, Scotland, driver/sports announcer, 27 Grand Prix

1923 Event - 1st Le Mans Grand Prix d'Endurance is run

1921 Birthday - Yves Montand, France, actor/singer, Z, Napoleon, Grand Prix

1918 Birthday - Maurice Druon, Kessel, French writer/journalist, Prix Goncourt

1911 Birthday - Albert Remy, born in Sevres, France, actor, Grand Prix, Gigot, Train

1899 Birthday - Robert Marcel Casadesus, French pianist and composer, Prix Diemer

1887 Birthday - Rene Maran, Martinique, author, Batouala, Prix Goncourt













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