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- 1628: Marcello Malpighi, Italian physiologist
- 1885: Tamara Karsavina, Russian ballet dancer
- 1892: Arthur Honegger, French composer
- 1903: Bix Beiderbecke, US jazz musician and composer
- 1964: Prince Edward, youngest son of Queen Elizabeth II
- 1832: Giuseppe Mazzini, Italian nationalist
- 1940: Mikhail Bulgakov, Russian novelist and playwright
- 1948: Jan Masaryk, Czech politician, allegedly committed suicide after Communist takeover
- 1985: Konstantin Chernenko, Soviet leader
- 1986: Ray Milland, US film actor
- 1801: The first census was begun in Britain.
- 1886: Cruft's Dog Show was held in London for the first time - since 1859 it had been held in Newcastle.
- 1906: The Bakerloo line was opened on the London underground railway.
- 1914: English suffragette Mary Richardson slashed Velasquez' Rokeby Venus with a meat cleaver.
- 1969: James Earl Ray was sentenced to 99 years' imprisonment after pleading guilty to the murder of civil-rights leader Martin Luther King.
- 1974: A Japanese soldier was discovered hiding on Lubang Island in the Philippines. He was unaware that World War II had ended, and was waiting to be picked up by his own forces.
- 1987: The Vatican document, 'Instruction on Respect for Human Life in its Origin and on the Dignity of Procreation: Replies to Certain Questions of the Day', condemned artificial methods of fertilization and called for a ban on experiments on living embryos.
- 1997: The Spice Girls, a British all-girl band, made pop music history by becoming the first group to top the charts with every one of their first four singles.
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