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#*mmddyyyy Birthdays *-------- ------------------------------------------------------------ B04260121 Marcus Aurelius B04020742 Charlemagne, King of the Franks & Emperor of the West B04031245 Philip III, King of France B04031367 King Henry IV B04261452 Leonardo da Vinci B04151469 Nanak: founder of the Sikhs B04181480 Lucrezia Borgia, Duchess of Ferrara: daughter of Pope Alexander VI B04111492 Marguerite d’Angoulême, Queen of Navarre B04071506 St. Francis Xavier: Jesuit missionary B04231564 William Shakespeare B04011578 William Harvey: physician, discoverer of circulation of the blood B04171586 John Ford: playwright B04051588 Thomas Hobbes: philosopher B04251599 Oliver Cromwell: dictator B04081605 Philip IV, King of Spain B04041648 Grinling Gibbons: sculptor & woodcarver B04051649 Elihu Yale: founder of Yale College in the U.S.A. B04091649 James Scott, Duke of Monmouth B04061671 Jean-Baptiste Rousseau: French playwright & poet B04151682 Jan van Huysum: Dutch painter B04081692 Giuseppe Tartini: Italian composer B04261711 David Hume B04271737 Edward Gibbon B04181740 Sir Francis Baring, banker & merchant B04171742 Johann Gottlieb Naumann, German composer B04131743 Thomas Jefferson: 3rd president of the U.S.A. B04131748 Joseph Bramah: locksmith & inventor B04041752 Nicolo Zingarelli: Italian composer B04111755 James Parkinson: physician & discoverer of ‘Parkinson’s disease’ B04181764 Bernhard Anselm Weber: German pianist, conductor & composer B04261765 Emma, Lady Hamilton B04071770 William Wordsworth: poet B04131771 Richard Trevithick: engineer & railway pioneer B04171774 Vaclav Jan (Wenzel Johann) Tomasek: Bohemian organist, pianist & B04171774Ccomposer B04031783 Washington Irving: U.S. essayist & historian B04181797 Louis-Adolphe Thiers: French statesman B04151800 Sir James Clark Ross: polar explorer B04021805 Hans Christian Andersen: Danish writer B04091806 Isambard Kingdom Brunel: engineer B04201808 Napoleon III B04131810 Félicien-César David: French composer B04151812 Pierre-Etienne-Theodore Rousseau: French painter B04011815 Prince Otto von Bismarck B04241815 Anthony Trollope: writer B04121815 Henry Pierson: composer B04211816 Charlotte Brontë B04131816 William Sterndale Bennett: pianist & composer B04181817 George Henry Lewes: journalist & critic B04111819 Sir Charles Hallé: pianist & conductor B04181820 Franz von Suppé: Austrian composer B04271820 Herbert Spencer B04091821 Charles-Pierre Baudelaire: French poet B04271822 Ulysses S. Grant B04061826 Gustave Moreau: French painter B04051827 Joseph Lister: surgeon & pioneer of antiseptic surgery B04101827 Lew Wallace: U.S. writer, author of ‘Ben Hur’ B04101829 William Booth: founder of the Salvation Army B04151832 Wilhelm Busch: German cartoonist & poet B04091835 Leopold II, King of the Belgians B04051837 Algernon Swinburne: poet B04171837 John Pierpoint Morgan: U.S. financier B04021840 Emile Zola: French writer B04121840 Edmond Audran: French composer B04151843 Henry James: US novelist B04091847 Sir Francesco Paolo Tosti: composer B04101847 Joseph Pulitzer: newspaper proprietor & founder of the Prizes B04131852 Frank Winfield Woolworth: chain-store pioneer B04061860 René Lalique: French designer of jewellery B04291863 William Randolph Hearst B04101868 George Arliss: actor B04221870 Vladimir Ulyanov (Lenin) B04241870 Jan Smuts B04251872 C.B. Fry B04011873 Sergei Rachmaninov: Russian composer B04251874 Guglielmo Marconi: Italian radio pioneer B04061874 Harry Houdini: U.S. magician & escapologist B04011875 Edgar Wallace: journalist & thriller writer B04081875 Albert I, King of the Belgians B04171876 Ian Hay (John Hay Beith): novelist B04091879 Sir Gerald Kelly: painter B04171880 Sir (Charles) Leonard Woolley: archaeologist B04181882 Leopold Stokowski: conductor & composer B04011883 Lon Chaney: U.S. film actor B04011885 Wallace Beery: U.S. film actor B04081887 Walter Connolly: U.S. actor B04171888 Dame Margaret Teyte (Maggie Tate): soprano B04021889 Sir Neville Cardus: cricket & music writer B04161889 Sir Charles Chaplin: film actor & comedian B04201889 Adolf Hitler B04081889 Sir Adrian Boult: conductor B04061890 Anthony Fokker: Dutch aircraft designer B04021891 Jack Buchanan: actor & singer B04071891 Sir David Low: cartoonist B04131892 Sir Arthur Harris: chief of Bomber Command in World War 2 B04011893 Dame Cicely Courtneidge: actress B04081893 Mary Pickford: U.S. film actress B04151894 Bessie Smith: U.S. blues singer B04171894 Nikita Khrushchev: Russian statesman & Premier B04041896 Robert Sherwood: U.S. poet B04171897 Thornton Wilder U.S. novelist & playwright B04091898 Paul Robeson: U.S. black singer & actor B04051900 Spencer Tracy: U.S. film actor B04291901 Emperor Hirohito of Japan B04101902 Harry Mortimer: musician B04081903 Ilka Chase: U.S. novelist, playwright & actress B04091903 Ward Bond: U.S. film actor B04141904 Sir John Gielgud: actor B04061906 Sir John Betjeman: poet B04091906 Sir Hugh Gaitskell: Labour statesman B04141907 François Duvalier ‘Papa Doc’: Haitian dictator B04181907 Miklos Rozsa: film & TV composer B04021908 Buddy Ebsen: U.S. dancer & film actor B04051908 Bette Davis: U.S. film actress B04051909 Albert ‘Cubby’ Broccoli: U.S. film producer B04091909 Sir Robert Helpmann: Australian dancer B04181910 Sylvia Fisher: soprano B04221912 Kathleen Ferrier: singer B04081912 Sonja Henie: Norwegian ice-skater & actress B04031913 Hugh Burden: actor B04121913 Lionel Hampton: U.S. bandleader B04161913 Constance Shacklock: operatic singer B04021914 Sir Alec Guinness: actor B04071915 Billie Holiday: U.S. jazz singer B04221916 Yehudi Menuhin: violinist B04051916 Gregory Peck: U.S. film actor B04131917 Howard Keel: U.S. actor & singer B04141917 Valerie Hobson (Mrs John Profumo) B04251917 Ella Fitzgerald: jazz singer B04041918 Margaret Dupont: former tennis champion B04161918 Spike Milligan: comedian & writer B04171918 Ann Shirley: U.S. film actress B04151919 Meriol Trevor: biographer & writer B04051920 Arthur Hailey: writer B04071920 Ravi Shankar: sitar player B04011921 Steve Race: musician & broadcaster B04081921 Virginia O'Brien: U.S. actress & singer B04101921 Chuck Connors: U.S. film actor B04161921 Sir Peter Ustinov: actor & writer B04051922 Tom Finney: footballer B04081922 Carmen McRae: jazz singer B04131922 John Braine: writer B04161922 Sir Kingsley Amis: novelist B04181922 Avril Angers: actress B04181922 Barbara Hale: U.S. film actress B04031923 Jan Sterling: U.S. actress B04121923 Ann Miller: U.S. film actress & dancer B04171923 Lindsay Anderson: film & theatre director B04031924 Marlon Brando: U.S. actor B04031924 Doris Day: U.S. singer & actress B04081924 General Sir Anthony Farrar-Hockley B04131924 Stanley Donen: U.S. film producer & director B04151924 Sir Neville Marriner: conductor B04161924 Sir John Harvey-Jones: former chairman, ICI B04161924 Henry Mancini, U.S. composer B04031925 Anthony Wedgwood Benn: Labour politician B04141925 Rod Steiger: U.S. actor B04021926 Sir Jack Brabham: racing driver B04211926 Queen Elizabeth II B04061926 The Reverend Ian Paisley: N. Ireland politician B04101926 Lyndon Brook: actor B04121926 Jane Withers: U.S. film actress B04061927 Gerry Mulligan: saxophonist & bandleader B04111927 Gervase de Peyer: clarinettist B04051928 Michael Bryant: actor B04071928 James Garner: U.S. film & TV actor B04081928 Eric Porter: actor B04091928 Tom Lehrer: U.S. songwriter & lecturer B04121928 Hardy Kruger: German actor B04011929 Jane Powell: U.S. singer & film actress B04021929 Catherine Gaskin: writer B04051929 Nigel Hawthorne: actor B04061929 André Previn: U.S. composer & conductor B04101929 Max von Sydow: Swedish actor B04171929 James Last: German bandleader B04181929 Peter Jeffrey: actor B04031930 Helmut Kohl: German chancellor B04071930 Cliff Morgan: former head of Outside Broadcasting, BBC TV B04071930 Andrew Sachs: actor B04171930 Chris Barber: jazz musician B04011931 George Baker: writer & actor B04061931 Joan Carlyle: soprano B04111931 Ronald Fraser: actor B04081931 Dorothy Tutin: actress B04131931 Beverley Cross: playwright B04011932 Debbie Reynolds: U.S. film actress B04041932 Anthony Perkins: U.S. actor B04101932 Omar Sharif: Egyptian actor B04161932 Vince Hill: popular singer B04061933 Dudley Sutton: actor B04091933 Jean-Paul Belmondo: French film actor B04111933 Joel Grey: U.S. actor & singer B04121933 Montserrat Caballé: operatic singer B04151933 Elizabeth Montgomery: U.S. film actress B04161933 Joan Bakewell: TV presenter B04021934 Brian Glover: actor B04071934 Ian Richardson: actor B04041935 Frances Langford: U.S. singer & actress B04101935 Patrick Garland: theatre & film director B04071937 Angela Bonallack: golfer B04121937 Edward Hide: jockey B04131937 Edward Fox: actor B04011938 Ali MacGraw: U.S. film actress B04061938 Paul Daniels: magician B04111938 Jill Gascoine: actress B04151938 Claudia Cardinale: Italian actress B04021939 Penelope Keith: actress B04071939 Francis Ford Coppola: U.S. film director B04071939 Sir David Frost: TV presenter B04121939 Alan Ayckbourn: playwright B04151939 Marty Wilde: rock singer B04161939 Donald MacCormick: TV presenter B04101940 Gloria Hunniford: radio & TV presenter B04141940 Julie Christie: actress B04151940 Jeffrey Archer: writer B04161940 Queen Margrethe II of Denmark B04161940 Dusty Springfield: popular singer B04071941 Gordon Kaye: actor B04091941 Hannah Gordon: actress B04101941 Paul Theroux: U.S. author B04121941 Bobby Moore: footballer B04131941 Margaret Price: operatic singer B04131941 Marjorie Yates: actress B04071943 Dennis Amiss: cricketer B04161943 Ruth Madoc: actress B04061944 Felicity Palmer: mezzo-soprano B04081944 Hywel Bennett: actor B04071945 Martyn Lewis: BBC TV newsreader B04031946 John Virgo: snooker player B04051946 Jane Asher: actress B04051946 Jennifer Penney: ballerina B04131946 Christopher Strauli: actor B04171946 Clare Francis: novelist & yachtswoman B04181946 Hayley Mills: actress B04121949 David Cassidy: popular singer B04051950 Agnetha Fältskog: one of the pop group Abba B04131951 Peter Davison: actor B04141951 Julian Lloyd Webber: cellist B04171951 Olivia Hussey: film actress B04101953 David Moorcroft: athlete B04091957 Severiano Ballesteros: Spanish golfer B04151959 Emma Thompson: actress B04021960 Linford Christie: athlete B04201961 Nicholas Lyndhurst: actor B04131963 Gary Kasparov: chess champion B04151966 Samantha Fox, dancer & model B04161970 Gabriella Sabatini: tennis player *mmddyyyy Events *-------- ------------------------------------------------------------ S04141471 The Yorkists defeated the Lancastrians at the Battle of Barnet S04081513 Florida was discovered by Juan Ponce de León S04041541 Ignatius of Loyala became the first Superior-General of the Jesuits S04061580 St. Paul’s Cathedral, London, was badly damaged by an earthquake S04041581 Francis Drake complete his circumnavigation of the world & S04041581Cwas knighted by Queen Elizabeth I S04131598 The Edict of Nantes was issued by Henry IV of France S04121606 The Union Jack flag was first adopted in England S04051614 The Addled Parliament (which made no enactments) began sitting S04101633 Bananas were displayed in a London shop window S04131668 John Dryden became first Poet Laureate S04111689 William & Mary were crowned joint monarchs S04121709 The ‘Tatler’ magazine was first published S04111713 The Treaty of Utrecht was signed by France & England, ceding S04111713CGibraltar & Newfoundland to England S04151729 The ‘St. Matthew Passion’ by Johann S. Bach, was first S04151729Cperformed at St Thomas's, Leipzig, Germany S04131741 The Royal Military Academy was founded at Woolwich S04131742 Handel's ‘Messiah’ was first performed in Dublin S04161746 Battle of Culloden S04151755 Dr. Samuel Johnson published his Dictionary S04091770 Botany Bay, Australia, was discovered by Captain James Cook S04131772 Warren Hastings was appointed governor of Bengal S04181775 Paul Revere, American silversmith & patriot, made his dramatic S04181775Cride from Boston to Lexington S04281789 The Mutiny on the Bounty began S04301789 George Washington became first U.S. President of the U.S.A. S04151793 The Bank of England issued the first five pound note S04071795 France made the metre the official unit of length S04151797 A naval mutiny occurred at Spithead S04021801 The naval Battle of Copenhagen was fought S04181809 The 2,000 Guineas horse-race was first run at Newmarket S04101814 Napoleon's army defeated at the Battle of Toulouse S04111814 The Treaty of Fontainebleau was signed S04111814 Napoleon abdicated, & was banished to the Isle of Elba S04111814 Louis XVIII acceded to the throne of France S04141828 Noah Webster's ‘American Dictionary of the English Language’ S04141828Cwas published S04061830 The Mormon Church was organised by Joseph Smith in New York S04081838 The steamship ‘Great Western’ began her maiden voyage to New York S04091838 The National Gallery, London was opened S04171839 The Republic of Guatemala was founded S04031860 The Pony Express was established in U.S.A. S04121861 The American Civil War began at Fort Sumter, South Carolina S04041862 The Battle of Yorktown started during the American Civil War S04091865 General Robert E. Lee surrendered to General Ulysses Grant at S04091865CAppomattox, ending the American Civil War S04151865 Andrew Johnson was sworn in as 17th president of the U.S.A. S04171870 The Empire Theatre, London, opened as the Royal London Panorama S04051874 Johann Strauss’s opera ‘Die Fledermaus’ first performed in Vienna S04081876 Ponchielli’s opera ‘La Giaconda’ was first performed in Milan S04181881 The Natural History Museum in South Kensington was opened S04061886 Vancouver, British Columbia, was founded S04151891 Thomas Edison publicly demonstrated the kinetoscope moving S04151891Cpicture machine, New York S04111894 Uganda was declared a British Protectorate S04061896 The first modern Olympic Games were inaugurated at Athens S04121898 The musical ‘The Belle of New York’ was first staged in London S04021902 The operetta ‘Merrie England’ was first performed in London S04081904 The Anglo-French agreement ‘Entente Cordiale’ was signed S04181906 San Francisco, U.S.A., was devastated by a great earthquake S04171907 The comic opera ‘Tom Jones’ was first produced, London S04011908 The Territorial Army was founded S04081908 Herbert Asquith became prime minister S04131912 The Royal Flying Corps was founded S04151912 RMS ‘Titanic’ hit an iceberg & sank in North Atlantic on her S04151912Cmaiden voyage. 1,513 lives were lost S04161912 The English Channel was flown by a woman, Harriet Quimby S04151912 The Daily Herald newspaper was first published S04071914 The Canadian Grand Trunk Railway was completed S04061917 The U.S.A. declared war on Germany S04091917 Vimy Ridge, France was stormed by Canadian troops S04091917 The Battle of Arras began S04101917 Vimy Ridge was finally taken by Canadian troops S04161917 The second Battle of the Aisne River began in World War I S04011918 Royal Air Force came into being as a separate arm S04041918 The Second Battle of the Somme ended S04091918 Latvia proclaimed her independence S04071920 The musical ‘Irene’ first performed in London S04151922 Insulin was discovered by Sir Frederick Banting with J.R.R. S04151922CMacleod & Charles H. Best, 1922 S04151923 The first public sound-on-film performance was shown at the S04151923CRialto Theatre, New York S04261925 Hindenburg becomes German President S04141926 The first London production of the musical ‘Lady Be Good’ was S04141926 presented S04021927 The Oxford & Cambridge Boat Race was first broadcast S04071927 The musical ‘The Desert Song’ first performed in London S04031930 Haile Selassie was proclaimed Emperor of Ethiopia S04031930 The musical ‘Rio Rita’ was first performed in London S04041929 Faisal II acceded to the throne of Iraq S04041929 The musical ‘The New Moon’ was first staged in London S04081931 The musical ‘White Horse Inn’ was first performed in London S04141932 The first London production of the operetta ‘The Dubarry’ was S04141932Cpresented S04071939 Italy invaded Albania S04081939 King Zog of Albania abdicated S04081940 British destroyer 'Glowworm' sinks after ramming the German S04081940Ccruiser 'Hipper' S04091940 German troops invade Denmark & Norway S04101940 First Battle of Narvik: Two German destroyers sunk S04131940 Second Battle of Narvik: Seven German destroyers sunk S04271940 Himmler orders construction of Auschwitz concentration camp S04271940Cin Poland S04101940 The German battleships ‘Blücher’ & ‘Karlsruhe’ were sunk S04111940 The musical ‘New Faces’ was first performed in London S04171940 Yugoslavia surrendered to the Germans S04031941 The German Afrika Korps captured Benghazi in Libya S04041941 British troops captured Addis Ababa S04111941 A major air raid took place over Coventry S04161941 The Little Theatre, Adelphi, Strand, London, closed S04161942 King George VI awards George Cross to the island of Malta S04091942 Bataan surrendered to the Japanese S04061943 The British & U.S. armies linked up after Rommel‘s retreat in S04061943CN. Africa S04061944 PAYE introduced in Britain S04011945 The Battle of Okinawa began in the Pacific S04061945 The ‘Yamato’ & 5 other Japanese warships were sunk by U.S. S04061945Ccarrier aircraft near Kyushu S04151945 The Battle of Berlin began S04021946 Sandhurst & Woolwich were combined to form the Royal Military Academy S04181946 The League of Nations was formally dissolved, & its assets S04181946Chanded over to the United Nations S04181946 The International Court of Justice was opened at The Hague. S04011948 The U.S.S.R. began a land blockade of Berlin S04071948 The World Health Organisation was formed S04161948 The Organisation for European Economic Co-operation (EEC) was set S04161948Cup S04011949 Newfoundland became the 10th province of Canada S04041949 North Atlantic Treaty Organisation signed by U.S.A., Britain, S04041949CFrance, Italy, Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg, Portugal, S04041949CDenmark, Norway, Iceland & Canada in Washington, D.C. S04141949 The first London production of the musical ‘Brigadoon’ was staged SS04181949 The Republic of Ireland Act came into force when Eire became a S04181949Crepublic. S04021951 NATO Allied Command, Europe was set up S04111951 President Truman relieved General MacArthur of his Far East S04111951Ccommand S04161951 The submarine ‘Affray’ sank in the English Channel, with the loss S04161951Cof 75 lives S04181951 France, West Germany, Italy, Belgium, Luxembourg & the S04181951CNetherlands set up the Coal & Steel Community. S04281952 Japan regained independence from America S04071953 Dag Hammarskjöld was elected Secretary-General of the United Nations S04051955 Sir Winston Churchill resigned as prime minister S04061955 Sir Anthony Eden became prime minister of Britain S04171956 Premium Savings Bonds were introduced in Britain S04091957 The Suez Canal was cleared for all shipping to use S04011960 The world's first metereological satellite was launched by the U.S.A. S04121961 The first manned space flight was made by Russian, Yuri Gagarin S04171961 The attempted invasion of Cuba took place at the Bay of Pigs S04101963 The U.S. submarine ‘Thresher’ was lost off Cape Cod with 125 crew S04051964 The first driverless automatic trains ran on London’s Underground S04061965 ‘Early Bird’, the first commercial communications satellite was S04061965Claunched in U.S.A. S04131966 The musical ‘Funny Girl’ was first performed in London S04051968 The Cunard liner ‘Queen Elizabeth’ was sold to a U.S. syndicate S04051968Cfor £3,230,000 S04181968 London Bridge was sold to a U.S. oil company. S04181968CThe bridge was later re-erected in Arizona. S04011973 V.A.T. took the place of Purchase Tax & Selective Employment Tax S04151975 The first London production of the musical ‘A Little Night Music’ S04171975 In Cambodia, the civil war ended after the capital, Phnom Penh, S04171975Csurrendered to the Khmer Rouge forces S04051976 Sir Harold Wilson resigned as prime minister of Labour party S04101979 The musical ‘Chicago’ first performed in London S04021982 Argentina invaded & captured the Falkland Islands S04111983 The musical ‘Blood Brothers’ first performed in London S04011991 The military side of the Warsaw Pact was disbanded S04091991 Georgia voted to secede from the Soviet Union *mmddyyyy Deaths *-------- ------------------------------------------------------------ D04061199 King Richard I, killed in battle D04011204 Eleanor of Aquitaine, Queen of France & England D04111240 Llywelyn ap lorwerth, Prince of Wales D04041284 Alfonso X, King of Castile & Leon D04011406 Robert III, King of Scotland D04141471 Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick ‘The Kingmaker’ killed in battle D04091483 King Edward IV D04061490 Matthias Corvinus, King of Hungary D04091492 Lorenzo de’Medici: Florentine statesman D04181504 Filippino Lippi: Italian painter D04061528 Albrecht Dürer: German painter D04011548 Sigismund 1, King of Poland D04181552 John Leland: antiquary D04091553 François Rabelais: French writer D04141578 James Hepburn, 4th Earl of Boswell, husband of Mary, Queen of D04141578CScots D04181587 John Foxe: author of The Book of Martyrs D04041588 Frederick II, King of Denmark D04131605 Boris Godunov: Tsar of Russia D04071614 El Greco: Cretan painter D04041617 John Napier: mathematician & inventor of logarithms D04091626 Francis Bacon: statesman D04101640 Agostino Agazzari: Italian composer D04151664 Lorenzo Lippi: Italian poet & painter D04121684 Niccolo Amati: Italian violin-maker D04141685 Thomas Otway: playwright D04181689 George Jeffreys: the infamous judge D04131695 Jean de La Fontaine: French writer of fables D04171696 Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, Marquise de Sevigne: French writer D04171711 Joseph I: Holy Roman Emperor D04241731 Daniel Defoe: writer D04071739 Dick Turpin, highwayman, was hanged D04141759 George Frederick Handel: composer, violinist & organist D04151764 Jeanne-Antoinette, Marquise de Pompadour: King Louis XV's D04151764Cmistress D04051765 Edward Young: poet D04151765 Mikhail Lomonosov: Russian writer D04041774 Oliver Goldsmith: playwright D04171790 Benjamin Franklin, U.S. author, diplomat & scientist D04181802 Erasmus Darwin: physician & writer D04051811 Robert Raikes: founder of Sunday Schools D04191824 Lord Byron D04161828 Francisco de Goya: Spanish painter D04171834 Catherine Maria Fanshawe: painter & poet D04171835 William Henry Ireland: forger of Shakespearean manuscripts D04041841 William Harrison: 9th president of the U.S.A. D04081848 Domenico Gaetano Maria Donizetti: Italian composer D04231850 William Wordsworth D04071858 Anton Diabelli: Austrian music publisher D04081861 Elisha Otis: U.S. inventor of the safety lift D04031862 Sir James Ross: explorer D04141865 Abraham Lincoln, 16th president of the U.S.A., was assassinated D04141865Cby John Wilkes Booth D04021872 Samuel Morse: U.S. inventor & founder of Morse code D04191881 Benjamin Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield) D04031882 Jesse James: U.S. outlaw D04191882 Charles Darwin: naturalist D04091882 Dante Gabriel Rossetti: poet & painter D04111884 Charles Reade: writer & playwright D04151888 Matthew Arnold: educationalist & poet D04071891 Phineas Barnum: U.S. showman D04031897 Johannes Brahms: German composer D04031901 Richard D’Oyly Carte: opera impresario D04191906 Pierre Curie: discoverer of radium D04091904 Isabella II, Queen of Spain D04111906 James Bailey: U.S circus proprietor in partnership with Barnum D04131906 Richard Garnett: librarian D04141907 James Clark Hook: painter D04101909 Algernon Swinburne: poet D04211910 Mark Twain: U.S. author D04131910 Sir William Quiller Orchardson: painter D04141917 Dr Ludovik Lazarus Zamenhof: creator of the Esperanto language D04041919 Sir William Crookes: physicist & chemist D04011922 Karl Franz Josef: Emperor of Austria D04151925 John Singer Sargent: US portrait painter D04041929 Karl Benz: German automobile engineer D04041931 André Michelin: French tyre manufacturer D04031936 Bruno Hauptmann executed for the murder of the Lindbergh baby D04111934 Sir George du Maurier: actor & manager D04181936 Ottorino Respighi, Italian composer D04121938 Feodor Chaliapin: Russian bass singer D04161938 Bertram Mills: circus proprietor D04181938 Sir Richard Runciman Terry: musicologist D04161940 Samuel Smiles: writer & social reformer D04091940 Mrs Patrick Campbell: actress D04181940 Herbert Albert Laurens Fisher: historian D04181940 Florrie Forde: music-hall artiste D04161941 Albert Alick (Al) Bowlly: popular singer D04031943 Conrad Veidt: German film actor D04181944 Cécile Chaminade: French composer D04121945 Franklin Delano Roosevelt: 32nd president of the U.S.A. D04281945 Benito Mussolini hanged by partisans D04301945 Adolph Hitler & Eva Braun commit suicide D04091945 Dietrich Bonhoeffer: German theologian D04181945 Sir John Ambrose Fleming: electrical engineer D04051946 Vincent Youmans: U.S. composer D04071947 Henry Ford: U.S. motorcar manufacturer D04151949 Wallace Beery: U.S. film actor D04031950 Kurt Weill: German/U.S. composer D04081950 Vaslav Nijinsky: Russian dancer & choreographer D04141951 Ernest Bevin: statesman & trade union leader D04011952 Ferenc Molnár: Hungarian playwright D04041953 Ex-King Carol II of Romania D04101954 Auguste-Marie-Louis Lumière: French pioneer of cine photography D04181955 Albert Einstein: physicist D04071955 Theda Bara: U.S. silent screen actress D04091959 Frank Lloyd Wright: U.S. architect D04101960 Arthur Benjamin: composer D04121960 Sir Archibald McIndoe: pioneer of plastic surgery D04101962 Michael Curtiz: U.S. film director D04121962 Antoine Pevsner: French sculptor & painter D04051964 Douglas MacArthur: U.S. general D04021966 Cecil Scott Forester: writer D04101966 Evelyn Waugh: writer D04041968 Martin Luther King, black civil rights leader was assassinated D04071968 James Clark: car-racing champion was killed D04161968 Fay Bainter: U.S. actress D04161968 Edna Ferber: U.S. author D04111970 John O’Hara: U.S. writer D04061971 Igor Stravinsky: Russian composer D04031972 Ferde Grofé: U.S. composer D04071972 Sheik Abeid Karume, dictator of Zanzibar, was assassinated D04081973 Pablo Picasso: Spanish painter & sculptor D04021974 Georges-Jean-Raymond Pompidou: president of France D04051975 Chiang Kai-shek: Chinese statesman & soldier D04121975 Joesphine Baker: U.S./French singer D04141975 Fredric March: U.S. actor D04151975 Richard Conte: U.S. film actor D04051976 Howard Hughes: U.S. aviator, industrialist & film producer D04031978 Ray Noble: bandleader & composer D04041979 Zulfikar Bhutto, former Pakistani prime minister was executed D04101980 Antonia White: journalist & writer D04151980 Jean-Paul Sartre: French philosopher & writer D04081981 Omar Bradley: U.S. general of World War II D04121981 Joe Louis: U.S. heavyweight boxer D04151982 Arthur Lowe: TV actor D04041983 Gloria Swanson: U.S. film actress D04121983 Desmond Bagley: writer D04131983 Travers Christmas Humphreys: judge D04051984 Sir Arthur Harris, chief of RAF Bomber Command in WW II D04091984 Sir Basil Blackwell: bookseller & pubisher D04011984 René Cutforth: journalist & broadcaster D04011984 Elizabeth Goudge: writer D04151984 Tommy Cooper: comedian D04171984 General Mark Wayne Clark: U.S. soldier D04171985 Scott Brady (Gerald Tierney): US actor D04141986 Simone de Beauvoir: French writer & feminist D04111987 Erskine Caldwell: U.S. writer D04031991 Graham Greene: writer D04161991 Sir David Lean: film director D04061992 Isaac Asimov: U.S. biochemist D04181992 Benny Hill (Alfred Hawthorn Hill): comedian D04081993 Marian Anderson: U.S. operatic contralto D04151993 Leslie Charteris: writer & creator of ‘The Saint’ D04181993 Dame Elisabeth Frink: sculptor D04061996 Greer Garson: Irish/American film actress, aged 87