Bill Beaumont, Sports broadcaster and former rugby player
1945
Procul Harum, (Real name Robin Trower), Pop Singer
1945
Micky Dolenz, Singer with the 'Monkees'
1943
Bobby Fischer, Former world chess champion
1934
Yuri Gagarin, First man in space
1918
Mickey Spillane, American novelist
1892
Victoria Sackville-West, English novelist and poet
1763
William Cobbett, English writer of 'Rural Rides'
Events:
1994
The IRA fired motar bombs at Heathrow airport, but they failed to explode
1987
Bobby Locke, the well known South African golfer, died
1946
33 people died & four hundred were injured when barriers collapsed at an FA cup game at Bolton, Lancashire
1932
Eamon de Valera was elected President of the republic of Ireland
1876
Alexander Graham Bell filed his patent for the first telephone
1862
The first battle between iron clad warships took place, during the American Civil War
1831
King Louis Philippe founded the French Foreign Legion
1796
French leader Napoleon Bonaparte married Josephine
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