Birthdays |
| 1863 | Edvard Munch, Norwegian painter |
| 1893 | Edward G. Robinson, American actor; ('Scarface','Little Caesar' & Key Largo') |
| 1915 | Frank Sinatra, American singer and 'Oscar' winning actor |
| 1929 | John Osborne, Playwright,actor and producer |
| 1932 | Lionel Blair, Dancer, TV presenter and director |
| 1941 | Dionne Warwick, US 'Soul' star, and Whitney Houston's aunt |
| 1960 | Emerson Fittipaldi, Brazilian racing driver |
Events |
| 1889 | Robert Browning, the renowned English poet, died |
| 1915 | The German Junkers J1, the worlds first all metal aeroplane, had its first test flight |
| 1917 | The worlds worst train accident took place at Modane, France, when 543 people were killed |
| 1939 | Douglas Fairbanks Snr., star of stage and screen, died |
| 1955 | The 'Hovercraft' was patented by British engineer Christopher Cockerell |
| 1977 | Winston Churchill's widow, Lady Spencer Churchill, died aged 92 |
| 1991 | Salman Rushdie faced new death threats, after a paperback edition of his controversial book was to be published |
