1483 - Revolutionary theologian Martin Luther born
1889 - Claude Rains born
1925 - Richard Burton born
1935 - Roy Scheider born
1944 - Tim Rice born
1949 - Donna Fargo born
1956 - Sinbad born
1959 - MacKenzie Phillips born
1960 - Bookshops all over England have sold out of Penguin's first run of the controversial novel Lady Chatterley's Lover, on the first day of publication.
1980 - The Labour Party chooses the outspoken left-wing MP Michael Foot as its new leader.
1982 - Speculation grows that soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev has died.
1995 - The writer and human rights activist, Ken Saro-Wiwa, is executed in Nigeria despite worldwide pleas for clemency.
1997 - British au pair Louise Woodward is freed from jail in the United States after her conviction for murdering a baby was reduced to manslaughter.
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