Birthdays |
| 1790 | William Edward Parry, British Arctic explorer |
| 1902 | Sir Ralph Richardson, English Stage and screen actor |
| 1906 | Leonid Brezhnev, Former President & General secretary of the Soviet Union |
| 1915 | Edith Piaf, French singer |
| 1922 | Eamonn Andrews, Irish born TV presenter and broadcaster |
| 1923 | Gordon Jackson, Stage & screen actor; TV's 'Upstairs, Downstairs' |
| 1942 | Sid Little, Comedian with Eddie Large; 'Little and Large' |
| 1944 | Alvin Lee, Of the Pop group 'Ten Years After' |
Events |
| 1154 | Henry II became King of England |
| 1848 | Emily Bronte, the novelist, died from tuberculosis aged 30 |
| 1851 | The renowned landscape painter, Joseph Turner, died in a lodging house in Chelsea, London |
| 1957 | An air service between London and Moscow was inaugurated |
| 1974 | Nelson Rockefeller was sworn in as American Vice-President |
| 1984 | Ted Hughes was appointed as Poet Laureate |
| 1987 | In Seville, Spain, Gary Kasparov retained his title as world chess champion, by beating Anatoly Karpov |
| 1991 | In Australia, Bob Hawke was deposed as Prime Minister by his colleagues, and replaced by Paul Keating |
