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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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