Subject: Lindsay Anderson
Born 17/4/1923, 102 years ago
Film and theatre director, critic and writer, ‘This sporting Life', ‘If', ‘The Whales of August', awarded the 1955 Oscar for Best Documentary Short. Born India, died France.
1 memorial
Subject: Frederick Austin
Died 17/4/1942, 83 years ago
Flight Sergeant Frederick Carleton Austin was born on 22 August 1918 in Omaha, Nebraska, USA, the younger child of Captain John Buchanan Austin (1886-1918) and Erminie Idah Buchanan née Calvin (189...
War dead, WW2
1 memorial
Subject: Richard Beacon
Died 17/4/1941, 84 years ago
Richard Beacon was born on 19 February 1914, the eldest of the three children of Richard Beacon (1893-1958) and Florence Maria Winifred Beacon née Taylor (1896-1983). His birth was registered in Fa...
War dead non-military, WW2
1 memorial
Subject: A. H. Benger
Died 17/4/1917, 108 years ago
Worked for the Great Northern Railway and died in WW1. We were contacted by Tina Rickward, this soldier's grand-niece (her grandfather was his brother). She gave us his date of death and told us t...
War dead, WW1
1 memorial
Subject: Henry Bidgood
Died 17/4/1878, 147 years ago
Businessman elected by Westminster St James Vestry to be a member of the Metropolitan Board of Works, 1856 - 1877. Died at home in St John's Wood.
1 memorial
Subject: Al Bowlly
Died 17/4/1941, 84 years ago
Popular singer. Born in Mozambique, Albert Alick Bowlly was brought up in Johannesburg. Performed in the colonies and then came to London in 1928. 1931-3 he appeared in 6 films normally as an unc...
1 memorial
Subject: Brixton nail bomb
Started 17/4/1999, 26 years ago
The bomb which injured 48 people, was planted by neo-Nazi bomber David Copeland. Copeland, who was also responsible for the nail bomb attacks in Brick Lane (24 April) and at the Admiral Duncan pub...
2 memorials
Subject: George Broadbridge, 1st Baron Broadbridge
Died 17/4/1952, 73 years ago
Conservative politician in the City of London, associated with the Candlewick Ward and the Worshipful Company of Gardeners. Lord Mayor of London 1936-7. MP for the City of London 1938 -1945. Also ...
1 memorial
Subject: Caesar Czarnikow
Died 17/4/1909, 116 years ago
Sugar broker. Born Carl Julius Caesar Czarnikow in Sondershausen, Germany. He came to Britain in 1854, and established his sugar brokerage firm, C. Czarnikow, in 1862, which by the time of his deat...
1 memorial
Subject: David J. Chalmers
Died 17/4/1941, 84 years ago
Leading Fireman David James Chalmers was born on 7 July 1909, the younger son of Ernest William Chalmers (b.1882) and Louisa Henrietta Chalmers née Stevens (b.1882). His birth was registered in Mil...
War dead non-military, WW2
1 memorial
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