1564 - William Shakespeare born
1891 - Sergei Prokofiev born
1899 - Vladimir Nabokov born
1928 - Shirley Temple Black born
1936 - Roy Orbison born
1940 - Lee Majors born
1942 - Sandra Dee born
1949 - Joyce DeWitt born
1954 - Michael Moore born
1957 - Jan Hooks born
1960 - Craig Sheffer and Valerie Bertinelli born
1968 - The first decimal coins make their way into purses throughout Britain in preparation for replacing the current system of pounds, shillings and pence by 1971.
1970 - Scott Bairstow born
1979 - A 33-year-old man dies from head injuries after a bloody battle breaks out between police and demonstrators in Southall.
1984 - The discovery of a virus which may cause Aids, the fatal disease sweeping through America, is hailed as a "monumental breakthrough" in medical research.
1998 - James Earl Ray, the convicted killer of the black American civil rights leader Martin Luther King, dies in prison aged 70, still protesting his innocence.
2001 - Jane Andrews, aformer personal assistant to the Duchess of York goes on trial accused of murdering her boyfriend.
Jane Andrews
2005 - John Mill dies
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