Subject: Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting, 2018
Started 19/4/2018, 7 years ago
Held in London, the 25th CHOGM.
1 memorial
Subject: Charles Darwin
Died 19/4/1882, 143 years ago
Charles Robert Darwin, father of the theory of evolution and natural selection. Born at Shrewsbury. Grandfathers: Erasmus Darwin and Josiah Wedgwood. Independently wealthy. Once he returned from th...
6 memorials
Subject: Donald John Dean, VC
Born 19/4/1897, 128 years ago
Awarded the VC for his heroism on 24-26 September 1918, age 21, while serving in the Queen’s Own (Royal West Kent Regiment). "As a Temporary Lieutenant in the 8th Battalion, The Queen’s Own (Royal ...
War served, WW1
1 memorial
Memorial: Disraeli statue
Erected 19/4/1883, 142 years ago
SW1, Parliament Square
Unveiled exactly two years after his death, this statue was central to the foundation of the Primrose League, an organisation formed to p...
1 subject commemorated,
1 creator
Subject: Benjamin Disraeli
Died 19/4/1881, 144 years ago
Born Theobalds Road which at the time was 6 King's Road. Novelist, e.g. Coningsby, Sybil, and Tancred. Tory Prime Minister in 1868 and 1874 - 1880. 1st Earl of Beaconsfield. Clearly an interesting ...
Person, Literature, Politics & Administration, Seriously Famous
6 memorials
Subject: Daphne du Maurier
Died 19/4/1989, 36 years ago
Novelist and playwright. Born at 24 Cumberland Terrace, Regents Park. Daughter of Gerald, grand-daughter of George. She married Major Frederick Browning in 1932, and as an army wife was obliged to...
1 memorial
Memorial: Earl St Germans
Erected 19/4/1880, 145 years ago
SE1, King James Street
The feast of St Alphege is 19 April, which in 1880 was a Monday. He was Archbishop of Canterbury 1006-12. Captured by Vikings and kille...
2 subjects commemorated
Subject: Linda Eastman
Died 19/4/1998, 27 years ago
Photographer, musician and animal rights activist and Paul McCartney's first wife, of 29 years. Mother of fashion designer Stella and musician James.
1 memorial
Subject: Richard Ellery
Born 19/4/1984, 41 years ago
Richard James Ellery was born on 19 April 1984 in Southampton, Hampshire, a son of Trevor A. Ellery and Beverley A. Ellery née Neal. Electoral registers for 2003 to 2005 show him listed at 13 Brams...
2 memorials
Subject: Beatrice Evans
Died 19/4/1941, 84 years ago
Beatrice Mary Drake was born 31 October 1906 in Edmonton, Middlesex, the fifth of the ten children of Walter John Drake (1879-1952) and Sophie Frances Drake née Harris (1878-1950). Her father was a...
War dead non-military, WW2
1 memorial
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