2013 Event The British High Commission announced they are awarding retired Paralympic swimmer Natalie du Toit an honorary MBE ( Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire) 1989 Event Comet du Toit at perihelion 1981 Birthday Elize Du Toit, British Actress 1970 Death Jean Giono, French writer (Hussard Sur le Toit), dies at 75 1953 Death Jacob D du Toit [Totius], South African poet/theologist, dies 1911 Death Stephanus J du Toit, So Afr theologist/journalist (Afr Bond), dies 1909 Death Flooi Du Toit, cricket leg-spinner (Test for South Africa 1892), dies 1879 Event Africaner Union forms by Reverend SJ du Toit at Cape colony 1877 Birthday Jacob D du Toit [Totius], South African poet/theologist 1868 Birthday J F "Flooi" Du Toit, cricketer, one Test South Africa 1892 1847 Birthday Stephanus J du Toit, South Africa theologist/journalist, Afr Bond
