An architect of Free India's Constitution and crusader for social justice. Born at Mhow in what is now Madhua Pradesh. Was in London studying at Gray's Inn and the LSE, in 1916-7, and 1922. Died...
The Beatles and the Rolling Stones first met at the Crawdaddy Club on Sunday 14 April 1963.
Lord of the Manor. William Bentinck. Tory Prime Minister in 1783 and 1807-09. Was Colonial Secretary at the time of Grant's voyage to the new colony, New South Wales. And so Portland (originally Po...
Born in Winford, Somerset. "The Dockers' K.C.". Self-taught. National Organiser of the Dockers' Union, 1910 - 1921. General Secretary of the Transport and General Workers Union (which he created...
Journalist and socialist. Born at 22 Wood Street, Woolwich. He married the author Edith Nesbit in 1880. Although she was pregnant, he divided his time between her and his widowed mother and her pai...
A software engineer, killed in the Ladbroke Grove rail disaster, aged 44. Andrew Behan has kindly carried out further research: Roger Stanley Brown was born on 14 April 1955, in Whitley Bay, North...
2324 Private 20th BN. London Regiment. Age 19. K 692A.
CN Co. Master Hoihow. Andrew Behan has researched this man: Master William Mackenzie Christie was born on 14 April 1899 in Dalry, Ayrshire, Scotland, the son of Gilbert and Ann Laughton Lyon Chris...
Epidemiologist, a founder of medical statistics. Born Kenley, Shropshire.
Broadcaster, writer and performer. Born Michael Henry Flanders in Hampstead. He served in the Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve, but contracted poliomyelitis and spent the rest of his life as a wheelcha...
Person, Literature, Music / songs, Theatre, TV & Radio, Wales
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