Birthdays |
| 1530 | Ivan the Terrible, Crowned as first Tsar of Russia in 1547 |
| 1916 | Van Johnson, American actor |
| 1918 | Leonard Bernstein, Composer and conductor |
| 1930 | Sean Connery, Scottish actor of stage and screen (James Bond) |
| 1933 | Wayne Shorter, American Jazz saxophonist and composer |
| 1938 | Frederick Forsyth, Author of Day of the Jackal |
| 1952 | Rob Halford, Of the Pop group 'Judas Priest' |
Events |
| 1867 | Michael Faraday, physicist and founder of the science of electromagnetism, died |
| 1917 | The Order of the British Empire (OBE), and the Companion of Honour (CH), were awarded for the first time |
| 1919 | The first international air service began between Paris and London |
| 1981 | The spacecraft Voyager 2 flew past the planet Saturn |
| 1983 | Adrian Moorhouse won a gold medal at the European swimming championships in Rome |
| 1988 | The first GCSE results were published |
| 1988 | Romanian Chess master Mihai Suba & his son defected to the West during an international tournament in London |
| 1988 | The controversial film 'The Last Temptation of Christ' was passed by censors for public showing |
