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- B1015 Publius Vergilius Maro (Virgil) (70 B.C.)
- B10260899 King Alfred
- B10271466 Erasmus
- B10071573 William Laud
- B10201632 Sir Christopher Wren
- B10141644 William Penn
- B10301683 King George II
- B10271728 Captain James Cook: seaman & explorer
- B10101731 Henry Cavendish
- B10301735 John Adams
- B10291740 James Boswell
- B10211772 Samuel Coleridge Taylor
- B10311795 John Keats
- B10201784 Viscount Palmerston
- B10221811 Franz Liszt: Hungarian composer
- B10101813 Giuseppe Verdi: Italian composer
- B10091835 Camille Saint-Saëns: French composer
- B10111844 H.J. Heinz: U.S. food magnate
- B10221844 Sarah Bernhardt: actress
- B10151844 Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
- B10131853 Lillie Langtry
- B10161854 Oscar Wilde: Irish writer
- B10271858 Theodore Roosevelt
- B10261879 Lev Bronstein (Trotsky)
- B10101861 Fridtjof Nansen
- B10011865 Paul Dukas: French composer
- B10021869 Mohandas Gandhi: Indian statesman
- B10121872 Ralph Vaughan Williams: composer
- B10151880 Marie Stopes
- B10241882 Sybil (later Dame) Thorndyke
- B10041884 Damon Runyon
- B10111884 Eleanor Roosevelt
- B10071885 Neils Bohr
- B10311887 Chiang Kai-shek
- B10161888 Eugene O'Neill
- B10021890 Groucho Marx: U.S. film star
- B10141890 Dwight Eisenhower: U.S. soldier & President
- B10081895 Juan Perón: Argentine dictator
- B10041896 Buster Keaton: U.S. film star
- B10281903 Evelyn Waugh
- B10011904 Vladimir Horowitz: Russian pianist
- B10021904 Graham Greene: writer
- B10291904 Vivian Ellis: composer & playwright
- B10061905 Helen Wills Moody: eight-times Wimbledon ladies single champion
- B10141906 Professor J.K. Galbraith: economist
- B10241906 Fred Pontin: founder of Pontin's holiday camps
- B10241906 Sir Robert Sainsbury: joint president of the John Sainsbury Company
- B10091907 Lord Hailsham: Lord Chancellor 1970-74 & 1979-87
- B10081908 Godfrey Talbot: broadcaster
- B10071909 Shura Cherkassky: Russian/U.S. classical pianist
- B10211912 Sir Georg Solti: conductor
- B10061914 Thor Heyerdahl: Norwegian writer & anthropologist
- B10171915 Arthur Miller: U.S. playwright
- B10031916 James Alfred Wight (alias James Herriot, the Yorkshire vet)
- B10221917 Joan Fontaine: U.S. actress
- B10051916 Sir Douglas Ranger: otolaryngologist
- B10261916 François Mitterand: former president of the French Republic
- B10181919 Pierre Trudeau: Prime Minister of Canada 1968-79 & 1980-84
- B10051919 Robert Kee: writer & broadcaster
- B10061919 Tommy Lawton: former England footballer
- B10151919 Baroness Serota: Deputy Speaker of the House of Lords
- B10221919 Doris Lessing: writer
- B10011920 Walter Matthau: U.S. actor
- B10311920 Dick Francis: writer
- B10031921 Ray Lindwall: former Australian cricketer
- B10121921 Jaroslav Drobny: Wimbledon men's singles champion in 1954
- B10211921 Sir Malcolm Arnold: composer
- B10161922 Max Bygraves: singer & entertainer
- B10311922 Barbara Bel Geddes: U.S. actress
- B10051923 Glynis Johns: actress
- B10091923 Donald Sinden: actor
- B10101923 Daniel Massey: actor
- B10241923 Sir Robin Day: TV & radio journalist
- B10011924 Jimmy Carter: former U.S. President, peanut farmer
- B10041924 Charlton Heston: U.S. film actor
- B10131925 Margaret (later Baroness) Thatcher: Tory prime minister 1979-90
- B10031925 Gore Vidal: writer
- B10161925 Angela Lansbury: actress
- B10261925 Paul Daneman: actor
- B10271925 Sir Paul Fox: Managing Director of BBC Network TV 1988-91
- B10291925 Robert Hardy: actor & writer
- B10021926 Jan Morris: writer
- B10291926 Jon Vickers: operatic tenor
- B10311926 Sir Jimmy Saville: TV & radio personality
- B10311926 H.R.F. Keating: writer
- B10011927 Sandy Gall: broadcaster
- B10211927 Nadia Nerina: ballerina
- B10281927 Cleo Laine: singer
- B10141928 Roger Moore: actor
- B10081928 Neil Harvey: former Australian cricketer
- B10081929 Betty Boothroyd, M.P. : Speaker of the House of Commons
- B10121929 Magnus Magnusson: broadcaster & presenter of 'Mastermind'
- B10281929 Joan Plowright: actress
- B10051930 David Mellor: silversmith & designer
- B10061930 Ritchie Benaud: former Australian cricket captain, now commentator
- B10081930 Alastair Milne: former Director-General of the BBC
- B10101930 Harold Pinter: actor, playwright & director
- B10201930 Lord Montagu of Beaulieu: Chairman of English Heritage
- B10311930 Michael Collins: former NASA astronaut
- B10041931 Basil D'Oliveira: former England cricketer
- B10041931 Terence Conran: designer & restauranteur
- B10071931 Desmond Tutu: Archbishop of Cape Town
- B10191931 John Le Carré: writer
- B10081932 Ray Reardon: six-times World Snooker Champion
- B10301932 Louis Malle: French film director
- B10011933 Richard Harris: actor
- B10281933 Michael Noakes: portrait & landscape painter
- B10171934 Johnny Haynes: former England footballer
- B10201934 Timothy West: actor, director & wife of Prunella Scales
- B10241934 Wally Herbert: explorer
- B10251934 Joe Mercer: former jockey
- B10011935 Julie Andrews: actress
- B10021935 Peter Frankl: classical pianist
- B10071935 Thomas Keneally: writer
- B10081935 Monsieur Albert Roux: chef & restauranteur
- B10091935 The Duke of Kent
- B10121935 Luciano Pavarotti: Italian operatic tenor
- B10291935 Michael Jayston: actor
- B10151936 Lord Baden-Powell: Vice-President of the Scouts Association
- B10281936 Carl Davis: composer
- B10041937 Jackie Collins: novelist
- B10071937 Christopher Booker: journalist & writer
- B10081937 Dame Merle Park: ballerina, & director of Royal Ballet School
- B10111937 Sir Bobby Charlton: former English footballer
- B10201937 Emma Tennant: writer
- B10171938 Ann Jones: Wimbledon Ladies Singles Champion in 1969
- B10191938 Bill Morris: General Secretary of the TGWU
- B10221938 Sir Derek Jacobi: actor
- B10281938 David Dimbleby: broadcaster
- B10061939 Melvyn Bragg: writer & broadcaster
- B10111939 Maria Bueno: three-times Wimbledon ladies' singles champion
- B10271939 John Cleese: writer & actor
- B10091940 Brian Blessed: actor
- B10101940 Winston S. Churchill: M.P.
- B10141940 Cliff Richard: pop singer
- B10161940 Peter Bowles: actor
- B10211940 Simon Gray: playwright
- B10211940 Natalia Makarova: ballerina
- B10221940 Colonel John Blashford-Snell: explorer
- B10231940 Pele: former Brazilian footballer
- B10241940 David Sainsbury: chairman & chief executive of John Sainsbury company
- B10131941 Paul Simon: songwriter
- B10131941 John Snow: former England cricketer
- B10281941 Hank Marvin: guitarist & former member of the 'Shadows'
- B10231942 Mrs Anita Roddick: founder & managing director of the 'Body Shop'
- B10261942 Bob Hoskins: actor
- B10021943 Anna Ford: broadcaster
- B10071943 Clive James: writer & broadcaster
- B10221943 Catherine Deneuve: actress
- B10171944 Steven Kovacevich: classical pianist
- B10211944 Geoffrey Boycott: former England cricketer
- B10221945 Michael Stoute: racehorse trainer
- B10101946 Charles Dance: actor
- B10101946 Willard White: baritone
- B10131946 Edwina Currie: Tory M.P.
- B10161947 Terry Griffiths: Welsh snooker player
- B10021948 Trevor Brooking: former England footballer
- B10051948 Ray Clemence: former England footballer
- B10241948 Phil Bennett: former Wales Rugby Union captain
- B10101949 Lance Cairns: former New Zealand cricketer
- B10201949 Eddie Macken: Irish showjumper
- B10061950 Tony Greig: former England cricket captain
- B10021951 Sting (Gordon Summer): pop singer & actor
- B10101953 Midge Ure: singer
- B10281953 Mark James: golfer
- B10051954 Bob Geldof: singer & founder of Band Aid
- B10271954 Chris Tavaré: former England cricketer
- B10071955 Yo Yo Ma: cellist
- B10091955 Steve Ovett: athlete
- B10181956 Martina Navratilova: nine-times Wimbledon Ladies' Single Champion
- B10281956 Sophie Mirman: co-founder of Sock Shop International
- B10301956 Juliet Stevenson: actress
- B10021957 Wayne Dooley: former England rugby player
- B10071957 Jayne Torvill: Olympic ice dance gold medallist
- B10201957 Chris Cowdrey: former England cricket captain
- B10271957 Glen Hoddle: footballer
- B10271958 Simon Le Bon: popular singer
- B10031959 Fred Couples: U.S. golfer
- B10041959 Tony Meo: snooker player
- B10151959 The Duchess of York
- B10141960 Steve Cram: athlete
- B10031961 Rebecca Stephens: mountaineer
- B10201961 Ian Rush: footballer
- B10211962 David Campese: Australian rugby player
- B10241962 Ian Baker-Finch: Australian golfer
- B10241962 Jonathan Davies: Rugy League player
- B10051963 Laura Davies: golfer
- B10251963 Michael Lynagh: Australian rugby player
- B10181968 Michael Stich: Wimbledon Mens' Singles Champion in 1991
- B10101970 Matthew Pinsent: Barcelona Olympic gold medallist in rowing
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- S10141066 Battle of Hastings
- S10251415 Battle of Agincourt
- S10041535 The printing of the first English Bible
- S10081571 The Battle of Lepanto
- S10181685 The revocation of the Edict of Nantes
- S10211805 Battle of Trafalgar
- S10251854 Charge of the Light Brigade at the Battle of Balaclava
- S10291929 New York stock market crash
- S10051930 The airship R101 crashed at Beauvais, France
- S10141939 HMS 'Royal Oak' was sunk by German submarine at Scapa Flow
- S10071940 German troops enter Romania
- S10291940 British troops land in Crete
- S10231942 Battle of El Alamein began
- S10241945 United Nations Organization established
- S1024 United Nations Day
- S10011949 People's Republic of China officially proclaimed in Peking
- S10071949 German Democratic Republic (East Germany) established
- S10061949 The end of the Berlin Airlift
- S10051952 Tea rationing ended in Britain
- S10041957 Russia launch Sputnik I
- S10281958 Pope John XXIII elected
- S10161978 Pope John Paul elected
- S10161995 The Skye Road Bridge was officially opened today
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- D10191216 King John
- D10031226 Saint Francis of Assisi
- D10171586 Sir Philip Sidney
- D10291618 Sir Walter Raleigh executed
- D10041669 Rembrandt van Rijn
- D10281704 John Locke
- D10191745 Jonathan Swift: writer
- D10081754 Henry Fielding
- D10261764 William Hogarth
- D10161793 Marie Antoinette was executed
- D10211805 Horatio Nelson: at Battle of Trafalgar
- D10121845 Elizabeth Fry
- D10071849 Edgar Allan Poe: U.S. writer
- D10171849 Frédéric Chopin
- D10181865 Viscount Palmerston
- D10111870 Robert E. Lee: U.S. general
- D10051880 Jacques Offenbach: French composer
- D10061891 Charles Stewart Parnell
- D10061892 Lord Tennyson
- D10181893 Charles Gounod: French composer
- D10031896 William Morris
- D10111896 Anton Bruckner: Austrian composer
- D10131905 Sir Henry Irving
- D10121915 Nurse Edith Cavell was executed by the Germans
- D10231915 W.G. Grace: cricketer
- D10301923 Andrew Bonar Law
- D10181931 Thomas Alva Edison: U.S. inventor
- D10191937 Lord Rutherford
- D10241945 Execution of Quisling, the Norwegian Nazi leader
- D10161946 Hermann Göring committed suicide in prison
- D10161946 Execution of principal German war criminals
- D10231950 Al Jolson: American popular singer
- D10091958 Pope Pius XII
- D10311961 Augustus John
- D10081967 Earl Atlee: Labour Prime Minister
- D10091967 Ché Guevara killed
- D10221973 Pablo Casals: Spanish cellist
- D10011995 Susan Fleetwood: actress
- D10091995 Lord Home of The Hirsel, aged 92: former Conservative prime
- D10091995Cminister
- D10091995 Patric Walker: astrologer
- D10141995 Edith Pargeter (alias Ellis Peters): writer & creator of 'Brother
- D10141995CCadfael' mystery novels
- D10181995 'Red Rum', aged 30. Three-times winner of the Grand National
- D10221995 Sir Kingsley Amis, aged 73: writer
- D10221995 Maxene Andrews, aged 79: One of the trio of the Andrews Sisters
- D10221995Cthat were very popular during World War II
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