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October Births

       1312  Edward III, claimed the French Crown, declared war against Philip VI and started
             the Hundred Year War.
       1650  William III, Dutch-born King of Great Britain and Ireland
       1656  Edmond Halley English Astronomer Royal and mathematician
       1762  Spencer Perceval, British Prime Minister assassinated in the House of Commons
             in 1812
       1841  Edward VII, King of Great Britain and Ireland
       1892  Sir  John  Alcock,  made  first  non-stop  flight  across  the  Atlantic  with  Sir  Arthur
             Whitten-Brown
       1919  Sir  Ludovic  Kennedy  Edinburgh-born  TV  broadcaster  and
             writer,
       1935  Lester Keith Piggott, rode first winner in 1948, and went on
             to win 30 Classics, including nine Derbies.
       1940  Screaming  Lord  Sutch, 1960’s pop singer, politician, leader
             of the Official Monster Raving Loony Party
       1949  Su Pollard, comedy actress, best remembered in the 1970’s
             ‘Hi De Hi’, TV series.
       1947  Rodney  Marsh,  wicket-keeper  for  Australia    14  years,
             making a record 355 dismissals;                     Lester Piggott
       1948  Charles, Prince of Wales and heir apparent to the British
             throne,
       1708  William Pitt the Elder, English Whig politician known as the ‘Great Commoner’
       1887  Bernard Law Montgomery (of Alamein), British Field-Marshal of World War II
             whose many victories in battle included the defeat of Erwin Rommel’s army in
             North Africa 1942.
                        1600  Charles I, King of Great Britain and Ireland who, He lost his
                              head on 30th January 1649
                        1787  Sir Samual Cunard. Canadian-born, he emigrated to Britain
                              in 1838, founded the Cunard Line.
                        1887  Boris Karloff, Dulwich-born actor starring mainly in horror
                              films such as Frankenstein (1931)
                        1810  William George Armstrong. Originally a Newcastle solicitor,
                              he turned his attention to engineering in the 1840’s,
                              developing and inventing hydraulic cranes, engines and
                              bridges, before turning his attention to ordnance with the
                              ‘Armstrong’ breech-loading gun.
       1898  C(live) S(taples) Lewis. Belfast-born author of children’s books including The
             Chronicles of Narnia.
       1874  Sir Winston Spencer Churchill. Prime Minister of the coalition government in
             World War II; recently voted the ‘Greatest Britain of all Time’

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