Birthdays |
| 1819 | Sir Henry Tate, Founder of London's Tate Gallery |
| 1885 | Sir Malcolm Campbell, Racing driver who held the land speed record |
| 1898 | Dorothy Gish, Silent screen star |
| 1916 | Lord (Harold) Wilson, Former Labour Prime Minister |
| 1923 | Louise Brough, American tennis champion |
| 1932 | Nigel Lawson, Former Chancellor of the Exchequer |
| 1961 | Bruce Watson, Of the Pop group 'Big Country' |
Events |
| 1682 | The Royal Chelsea Hospital (and site of the flower show) was founded |
| 1702 | The 'Daily Courant', the first successful English newspaper, was first published. It consisted of only 1 sheet |
| 1955 | Sir Alexander Fleming, Scottish bacteriologist and discoverer of penicillin, died |
| 1957 | Richard Byrd, the American Polar explorer, died |
| 1983 | Donald Maclean, spy and associate of Guy Burgess, was buried in Moscow |
| 1988 | Alison Johns, a 17 year old golfer from Lincolnshire, became the youngest person to win the Roehampton Gold Cup |
| 1990 | The Republic of Lithuania declared its independence from the USSR |
