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- B12241491 Saint Ignatius of Loyola
- B12071542 Mary, Queen of Scots
- B12271571 Johannes Kepler
- B12091608 John Milton: writer & poet
- B12221639 Jean Racine
- B12251642 Isaac Newton
- B12261716 Thomas Gray
- B12311720 Charles Edward Stuart (the Young Pretender)
- B12291721 Madame de Pompadour
- B12221726 James Wolfe
- B12061732 Warren Hastings
- B12231732 Richard Arkwright
- B12191742 Carl Wilhelm von Scheele
- B12031753 Samuel Cromptom
- B12161770 Ludwig van Beethoven: German composer
- B12161775 Jane Austen: writer
- B12171778 Sir Humphrey Davy
- B12031795 Sir Rowland Hill: founder of the Penny Post
- B12041795 Thomas Carlyle
- B12131797 Heinrich Heine
- B12111803 Hector Berlioz: French composer
- B12211804 Benjamin Disraeli: statesman
- B12291809 William Ewart Gladstone: British Prime Minister
- B12231812 Samuel Smiles
- B12101822 César Franck: Belgian composer
- B12271822 Louis Pasteur: French chemist
- B12241822 Matthew Arnold: poet
- B12041835 Samuel Butler
- B12011844 Queen Alexandra
- B12091848 Joel Chandler Harris (Uncle Remus): writer
- B12281856 Woodrow Wilson: U.S. President
- B12031857 Joseph Conrad: writer
- B12221858 Giacomo Puccini: Italian composer
- B12201860 Dan Leno
- B12041865 Nurse Edith Cavell
- B12081865 Jean Sibelius: Finnish composer
- B12301865 Rudyard Kipling
- B12301869 Stephen Leacock
- B12311869 Henri Matisse
- B12291876 Pablo Picasso: Spanish painter
- B12211879 Iosif (Joseph) Stalin: Russian statesman
- B12061888 Will Hay: comedian/film star
- B12041892 General Franco: Spanish dictator
- B12261893 Mao Zedong (Mao Tse-tung)
- B12081894 James Thurber
- B12201894 Robert Menzies
- B12251901 Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester
- B12041903 Dr. A.L. Rowse: historian
- B12051905 Earl of Longford: writer & social reformer
- B12211905 Anthony Powell: writer
- B12191906 Leonid Brezhnev: Russian statesman
- B12131906 Sir Laurens van der Post: writer & explorer
- B12101907 Rumer Godden: writer, playwright & poet
- B12181907 Christopher Fry: dramatist
- B12231908 Yousuf Karsh: Canadian photographer
- B12091909 Douglas Fairbanks Jr.: U.S. film actor
- B12221909 Patricia Hayes: actress
- B12071910 Edmundo Ros: former Latin American bandleader
- B12191910 Jean Genet
- B12011910 Dame Alicia Markova: prima ballerina assoluta
- B12311911 Jack Hargreaves: broadcaster
- B12041912 Jimmy Jewel: comedian, later actor
- B12061914 Cyril Washbrook: former England cricketer
- B12071915 Eli Wallach: U.S. film actor
- B12091915 Dame Elisabeth Schwarzkopf: German operatic soprano
- B12121915 Frank Sinatra: singer & actor
- B12141915 Dame Ruth Railton: founder of National Youth Orchestra
- B12121917 Al Deere (later Air Commodore): World War II fighter ace
- B12161917 Arthur C. Clarke: Science fact & fiction writer
- B12111918 Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn: writer & winner of Nobel Prize in 1970
- B12251918 Anwar Sadat: Egyptian statesman
- B12091918 Kirk Douglas: U.S. film actor
- B12061919 Eric Newby: writer
- B12111919 Cliff Michelmore: broadcaster & producer
- B12061920 Dave Brubeck: jazz musician
- B12041921 Deanna Durbin: former Hollywood singing star
- B12081922 Lucian Freud: painter
- B12021923 Maria Callas: U.S. operatic soprano
- B12021923 Trevor Bailey: former England cricketer
- B12221923 Sir Peregrine Worsthorne: editor of ‘The Sunday Telegraph’ 1986-89
- B12101924 Michael Manley: prime minister of Jamaica 1972-80
- B12261925 Professor Thea King: musician
- B12071927 Helen Watts: operatic singer
- B12091927 Benny Green: musician, writer & broadcaster
- B12171927 Robert Robinson: writer & broadcaster
- B12261927 Denis Quilley: actor
- B12281927 Simon Raven: writer, critic & dramatist
- B12011928 Keith Michell: actor
- B12151928 Ida Haendel: concert violinist
- B12291928 Bernard Cribbins: actor
- B12061929 Charles Vance: actor, director & theatrical producer
- B12091929 Robert Hawke: prime minister of Australia 1983-91
- B12131929 Christopher Plummer: Canadian actor
- B12241929 Philip Ziegler: writer
- B12311929 Michael Bonallack: Secretary of the Royal & Ancient Golf Club,
- B12311929CSt. Andrews
- B12041930 Ronnie Corbett: comedian
- B12151930 Edna O'Brien: writer
- B12241932 Sir Colin Cowdrey: former England cricketer
- B12281932 Roy Hattersley: Labour M.P.
- B12051933 Paddy McMahon: showjumper
- B12091934 Dame Judi Dench: actress
- B12281934 Dame Maggie Smith: actress
- B12011935 Woody Allen: U.S. writer, actor & film director
- B12031935 Sir Brian Jenkins: Lord Mayor of London 1991-92
- B12181935 Rosemary Leach: actress
- B12261935 Rohan Kanhai: former West Indies cricketer
- B12131936 The Aga Khan
- B12251936 Princess Alexandra
- B12251936 Ismail Merchant: film producer
- B12101937 Raphael Maklouf: sculptor
- B12171937 Kerry Packer: Australian entrepreneur
- B12211937 Jane Fonda: U.S. actress
- B12301937 Gordon Banks: former England footballer
- B12311937 Sir Anthony Hopkins: actor
- B12041938 Richard Meade: President British Equestrian Federation 1989-92
- B12041938 Yvonne Minton: operatic mezzo-soprano
- B12121938 Connie Francis: U.S. popular singer
- B12161938 Liv Ullmann: actress
- B12151938 Michael Bogdanov: theatre director
- B12011939 Lee Trevino: Mexican golfer
- B12291938 Harvey Smith: showjumper
- B12081939 James Galway: Irish flautist
- B12211939 Greville Starkey: former jockey
- B12221939 Ken Whitmore: radio dramatist
- B12011940 Mike Denness: former England cricket captain
- B12171940 Tommy Steele: singer & actor
- B12041941 Geoff Hurst: former England footballer
- B12121941 Dionne Warwick: U.S. popular singer
- B12281941 Intikhab Alam: Former Pakistan cricket captain
- B12031942 Mike Gibson: former Ireland rugby international
- B12041942 Gemma Jones: actress
- B12091942 Billy Bremner: former Scotland football captain
- B12091943 Joanna Trollope: writer
- B12181943 Keith Richards: one of the Rolling Stones
- B12231943 Queen Silvia of Sweden
- B12311943 Ben Kingsley: actor
- B12311943 John Denver: U.S. folk singer
- B12101944 John Birt: director of the BBC
- B12261944 Jane Lapotaire: actress
- B12031945 Paul Nicholas: actor
- B12171945 Christopher Cazenove: actor
- B12211945 Doug Walters: former Australia cricketer
- B12281945 Max Hastings: journalist
- B12121946 Emerson Fittipaldi: former motor racing champion
- B12141946 Stan Smith: Wimbledon Men's Singles Champion in 1972
- B12271946 Janet Street-Porter: broadcaster & writer
- B12051947 José Carreras: Spanish operatic tenor
- B12181947 Steven Spielberg: U.S. producer & director
- B12011948 Sarfraz Nawaz: former Pakistan cricketer
- B12061948 Keke Rosberg: World motor-racing champion in 1982
- B12221948 Chris Old: former England Cricketer
- B12221948 Noel Edmonds: TV presenter
- B12271948 Gérard Depardieu: actor
- B12051949 Lanny Wadkins: U.S. golfer
- B12061949 Peter Willey: former England cricketer
- B12091950 Joan Armatrading: popular singer
- B12141950 Phil Orr: former Ireland rugby player
- B12221951 The Duke of Westminster
- B12271951 Viscount Astor
- B12291951 Lord Beaverbrook
- B12011952 Stephen Poliakoff: playwright
- B12131952 John Francombe: former jockey & trainer, now broadcaster
- B12161952 Joel Garner: former West Indies cricketer
- B12201952 Jenny Agutter: actress
- B12311952 Jean-Pierre Rives: former captain of the French national rugby team
- B12211954 Chris Evert: winner of Wimbledon Women's Singles Championship in
- B12211954C1974, 1976 & 1981
- B12251954 Annie Lennox: popular singer
- B12301957 Nick Skelton: showjumper
- B12101960 Kenneth Branagh: actor & director
- B12121962 Tracey Austin: U.S. tennis player
- B12101963 Jahangir Khan: six-times world championship squash champion
- B12121965 Will Carling: England Rugby Union captain
- B12291966 Martin Offiah: Rugby League international
- B12021973 Monica Seles: tennis player
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- S12211620 Pilgrim Fathers landed in America
- S12171653 Oliver Cromwell became Lord Protector
- S12101768 Royal Academy founded
- S12161773 Boston Tea Party
- S12021805 Battle of Austerlitz
- S12181865 Slavery abolished in U.S.A.
- S12291895 Jameson Raid
- S12261898 Radium discovered by Pierre & Marie Curie
- S12121901 First trans-Atlantic radio signals
- S12171903 First powered aircraft flight
- S12141911 Roald Amundsen reached South Pole
- S12251926 Hirohito becomes Emperor of Japan
- S12051933 The repeal of prohibition in the U.S.A.
- S12111936 Abdication of King Edward VIII
- S12131939 Battle of the River Plate commences
- S12141939 U.S.S.R. expelled from League of Nations
- S12171939 German warship 'Graf Spee' scuttled outside Montevideo Harbour
- S12181940 Hitler issues directive for invasion of U.S.S.R.
- S12231940 Anthony Eden becomes Foreign Secretary
- S12291940 Heavy incendiary bomb raid on London
- S12301940 Heavy incendiary bomb raid on London
- S12071941 Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii
- S12011942 Beveridge Report
- S12021942 First nuclear chain reaction produced
- S12231948 Execution of principal Japanese war criminals
- S12271949 Indonesia granted independence from the Netherlands
- S12301949 France grants independence to Vietnam
- S12241950 The Stone of Scone was stolen by students from Westminster Abbey
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- D12011135 King Henry I
- D12291170 Saint Thomas à Becket murdered
- D12311384 John Wycliffe
- D12131466 Donatello
- D12241524 Vasco da Gama
- D12021547 Hernán Cortés
- D12131675 Jan Vermeer
- D12281694 Queen Mary II
- D12181737 Antonio Stradivari: Italian maker of violins
- D12131784 Doctor Samuel Johnson
- D12051791 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- D12141799 George Washington: America's first President
- D12231834 Robert Malthus
- D12271834 Charles Lamb
- D12191851 J.M.W. Turner: painter
- D12281859 Lord Macaulay
- D12061882 Anthony Trollope: writer
- D12151890 Chief Sitting Bull: killed
- D12031894 Robert Louis Stevenson
- D12121889 Robert Browning
- D12101896 Alfred Nobel
- D12301916 Grigori Rasputin assassinated
- D12051926 Claude Monet
- D12251946 W.C. Fields: U.S. film actor
- D12151965 Queen Salote of Tonga
- D12151966 Walt Disney
- D12201968 John Steinbeck: U.S. writer
- D12261972 Harry S. Truman: U.S. President
- D12251977 Sir Charles Chaplin
- D12081978 Golda Meir: Israeli stateswoman
- D12031995 Jimmy Jewel: comedian, later actor. Former partner of Ben Warris
- D12071995 Kathleen Harrison: actress, aged 103
- D12111995 Arthur Mullard: comedian, aged 85
- D12251995 Dean Martin: U.S. actor & singer, aged 78
- D12281995 Shura Cherkassky: Russian/U.S. concert pianist, aged 86
- D12291995 Vivian Blaine: actress, aged 74
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