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31st December
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| 30th December
Born on this day 1552 Simon Forman, 1678 William Croft, 1722 Charles Yorke, 1741 Princess Elizabeth of Great Britain, 1865 Rudyard Kipling, 1906 Carol Reed, 1928 Jack Lord, 1929 Rosalind Hurley, 1937 Gordon Banks, 1939 Del Shannon, 1928 Bo Diddley, 1934 Russ Tamblyn, 1942 Mike Nesmith, 1942 Guy Edwards, 1945 Davy Jones, 1947 Jeff Lynne, 1957 Rod Harrington, 1959 Tracey Ullman, 1969 Jay Kay, 1975 Tiger Woods, 1983 Joe Thomas, 1986 Ellie Goulding, 1988 Leon Jackson more |
| 29th December
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| 28th December
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| 27th December
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| 26th December
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| 25th December
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| 24th December
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| 23rd December
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| 22nd December
Born on this day 1858 Giacomo Puccini, 1888 Lord J Arthur Rank, 1907 Dame Peggy Ashcroft, 1909 Patricia Hayes, 1936 James Burke, 1948 Noel Edmonds, 1949 Robin Gibb, 1957 Ricky Ross more |
| 21st December
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| 20th December
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| 19th December
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| 18th December
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| 17th December
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| 16th December
Born on this day 1485 Catherine of Aragon, 1770 Ludwig Van Beethoven, 1775 Jane Austen, 1899 Sir Noel Coward, 1917 Sir Arthur C. Clarke, 1938 Liv Ullman, 1943 Tony Hicks, 1943 Steven Bocho, 1946 Benny Andersson more |
| 15th December
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| 14th December
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| 13th December
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| 12th December
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| 11th December
Born on this day 1803 Hector Berlioz, 1922 Marie Wilson, 1913 Carlo Ponti, 1918 Alexander Solzhenitsyn, 1919 Cliff Michelmore, 1931 Rita Moreno, 1944 Brenda Lee, 1944 Kenneth Cranham, 1954 Jermaine Jackson more |
| 10th December
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| 9th December
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| 8th December
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| 7th December
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| 6th December
Born on this day 1892 Sir Osbert Sitwell, 1896 Ira Gershwin, 1908 'Babyface' Nelson, 1944 Jonathan King, 1959 Nick Park, 1961 Eugene Wilde more |
| 5th December
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| 4th December
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| 3rd December
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| 2nd December
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| 1st December
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| 30th November
Born on this Day 1667 Jonathan Swift, 1719 Augusta of Saxe-Gotha, 1781 Alexander Berry, 1835 Mark Twain, 1874 Sir Winston Churchill, 1930 Robert Guillaume, 1937 Sir Ridley Scott, 1956 Billy Idol, 1959 Lorraine Kelly, 1960 Gary Lineker, 1968 Des'Ree, 1975 Ben Thatcher, 1980 Jamie Ashdown, 1983 Andy Akinwolere, 1987 Dougie Poynter, 1994 William Melling more |
| 29th November
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| 28th November
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| 27th November
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| 26th November
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| 25th November
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| 24th November
Born on this Day 1826 Carlo Collodi, 1849 Frances Burnett, 1864 Henri De Toulouse Lautrec, 1888 Cathleen Nesbitt, 1894 Herbert Sutcliffe, 1915 Helen Cherry, 1942 Billy Connolly, 1955 Ian Botham, 1958 Carmel more |
| 23rd November
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| 22nd November
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| 21st November
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| 20th November
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| 19th November
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| 18th November
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| 17th November
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| 16th November
Born on this Day 42 BC Tiberius, 1873 W.C. Handy, 1896 Oswald Mosley, 1905 Eddie Condon, 1908 Burgess Meredeith, 1897 Aneurin Bevan, 1905 Mantovani, 1925 Paul Raymond, 1924 James Bond, 1935 Prof. Sir Magdi Yacoub, 1942 Willie Carson, 1953 Griff Rhys Jones, 1961 Frank Bruno, 1967 Lisa Bonet, 1974 Paul Scholes more |
| 15th November
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