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| x Angela Evans Smith | Jan 7, 1959 | United Kingdom |
Angela Evans Smith (born 7 January 1959, London) is a politician in the United Kingdom. She is Labour and Co-operative Member of Parliament for Basildon. She is currently Minister of State in the Cabinet Office, incorporating the offices of Minister...
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| x Simon Cadell | Jul 19, 1950 | United Kingdom |
Simon John Cadell (19 July 1950 – 6 March 1996) was an English actor.
Born in London, he was the grandson of the Scottish character actor Jean Cadell and the brother of the actress Selina Cadell. He was educated at Bedales School at Petersfield...
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| x Fanny Kemble |
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Nov 27, 1809 | England | Writer |
Frances Anne Kemble (27 November 1809 - 15 January 1893), was a famous British actress and author in the early and mid nineteenth century.
A member of the famous Kemble theatrical family, Fanny was the oldest daughter of actor Charles Kemble and the...
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| x Keith Joseph |
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Jan 17, 1918 | United Kingdom | Politician |
Keith Sinjohn Joseph, Baron Joseph, Bt., CH, PC (17 January, 1918 – 10 December, 1994) was a British barrister, politician, and Conservative Cabinet Minister under three different Ministries. He is widely regarded as the "power behind the throne" in...
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| x Francis Bedford |
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1816 | United Kingdom | Photographer |
Francis Bedford (1816 in London – 15 May 1894) was an English architect and photographer.
He designed a number of churches including
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| x Mary Mannering | 1876 | England | Actor |
Mary Mannering (1876 – 1953) was an Anglo-American actress, born in London. She studied for the stage under Hermann Vezin. She made her debut at Manchester in 1892 under her own name of Florence Friend.
She was induced by Daniel Frohman to come to...
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| x Thomas Cooper |
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Oct 22, 1759 |
Dr. Thomas Cooper (October 22, 1759 – May 11, 1839), American academic, college president and political philosopher, was born in London, England. He attended Oxford, but did not graduate. Though Cooper is virtually unknown in today's historical...
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| x Daisy McAndrew | 1972 | United Kingdom | Presenter |
Daisy McAndrew (née Sampson) (born 1972 in London) is an English journalist who is currently Economics Editor for ITV News.
At 19, Sampson worked as a researcher in the House of Commons, transferring to The House Magazine which she went on to edit...
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| x John Douglas |
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Mar 6, 1828 | Politician |
John Douglas CMG (6 March 1828 – 23 July 1904) was an Anglo-Australian politician and Premier of Queensland.
Douglas was born in London, the seventh son of Henry Alexander Douglas and his wife Elizabeth Dalzell, daughter of the Earl of Carnwarth....
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| x George Henry Lewes |
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Apr 18, 1817 | Philosopher |
George Henry Lewes (18 April 1817 – 28 November 1878) was an English philosopher and critic of literature and theatre. He became part of the mid-Victorian ferment of ideas which encouraged discussion of Darwinism, positivism, and religious...
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| x Galyani Vadhana |
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May 6, 1923 |
Somdet Phra Chao Phi Nang Thoe Chao Fa Galyani Vadhana Kromma Luang Narathiwat Ratchanakharin (Thai: สมเด็จพระเจ้าพี่นางเธอ เจ้าฟ้ากัลยาณิวัฒนา กรมหลวงนราธิวาสราชนครินทร์; literally: Royal Elder Sister Galyani Vadhana, the Princess of Narathiwat),...
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| x Peter Wheeler | Nov 26, 1948 | England |
Peter John Wheeler (born 26 November 1948) is a former England international rugby union footballer who played hooker and is Chief Executive of Leicester Tigers.
He made his England debut 1 February against France in 1975, and his last appearance...
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| x Vere Ponsonby, 9th Earl of Bessborough |
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Oct 27, 1880 | United Kingdom | Businessperson |
Captain Vere Brabazon Ponsonby, 9th Earl of Bessborough PC GCMG (27 October 1880 – 10 March 1956) was a British businessman and politician who, between 1931 and 1935 served as the Governor General of Canada. He was born and educated in England,...
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| x Jack Sheppard |
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Mar 4, 1702 |
Jack Sheppard (4 March 1702 – 16 November 1724) was a notorious English robber, burglar and thief of early 18th-century London. Born into a poor family, he was apprenticed as a carpenter but took to theft and burglary in 1723, with little more than...
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| x Brendan O'Connor |
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Mar 2, 1962 | Australia | Politician |
Brendan Patrick O'Connor (born 2 March 1962), Australian politician, has been an Australian Labor Party member of the Australian House of Representatives since November 2001, representing the Division of Burke, Victoria 2001-04 and the Division of...
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| x Naveen Andrews |
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Jan 17, 1969 | England | Actor |
Naveen William Sidney Andrews (born 17 January 1969) is an Emmy- and Golden Globe-nominated English actor. He is best known for playing Sayid Jarrah on the American television series Lost.
Andrews was born in London, England, the son of Nirmala, a...
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| x Davina McCall |
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Oct 16, 1967 | England | Presenter |
Davina Lucy Pascale McCall (born 16 October 1967) is an English television presenter and actress, most notable for her work on Channel 4's Big Brother reality TV series.
McCall was born in London to Florence (née Hennion) and Andrew McCall, and at...
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| x William Lloyd Webber | Mar 11, 1914 | England | Organist |
William Southcombe Lloyd Webber (11 March 1914, London–29 October 1982, London) was an English organist and composer.
The son of William Charles Henry Webber, a self-employed plumber, he was fortunate, from a musical point of view, that his father...
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| x Roger Cohen | Aug 2, 1955 | United States of America | Journalist |
Roger Cohen (born August 2, 1955, in London) is a foreign correspondent, newspaper editor, author, and a columnist for The New York Times as well as its related publication International Herald Tribune. He has reported from over fifteen different...
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| x Eliza Poe |
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1787 | England | Theater Actress |
Elizabeth Arnold Poe (1787–1811) was an English-born American actress and the mother of the American author Edgar Allan Poe.
Eliza Arnold was born to Henry and Elizabeth Arnold in London in the spring of 1787. Her mother was a stage actress in...
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| x Jan Francis |
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Aug 5, 1947 | England |
Janet Stephanie Francis was born on 5 August 1947, and was raised at Streatham in south London. Leaving the Lady Edridge Grammar School in South Norwood at 16 with “a handful of ‘O’ levels, she won a scholarship to the Royal Ballet Senior School,...
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| x Steve Davis | Apr 9, 1952 | England |
Stephen James Davis, (born 9 April 1952), is a current Australian Test cricket match umpire, from South Australia. He was appointed to the Elite Panel of ICC Umpires in April 2008.
Davis has stood in 9 Test matches. His first match was between...
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| x Charles La Trobe |
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Mar 20, 1801 |
Charles Joseph La Trobe (20 March 1801 – 4 December 1875) was the first lieutenant-governor of the colony of Victoria (now a state of Australia).
La Trobe was born in London, the son of Christian Ignatius Latrobe, a family of Huguenot origin. He...
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| x Melanie Blatt |
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Mar 25, 1975 | England | Singer |
Melanie Ruth Blatt (born 25 March 1975) is a British singer and occasional actress. Blatt made her name as part of top UK girl group All Saints, but following their split has launched a solo career.
Blatt was born at University College Hospital in...
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| x Joseph Banks |
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Feb 13, 1743 | United Kingdom | Botanist |
Sir Joseph Banks, 1st Baronet, GCB, PRS (13 February 1743 – 19 June 1820) was a British naturalist, botanist and patron of the natural sciences. He took part in Captain James Cook's first great voyage (1768–1771). Banks is credited with the...
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| x Cyril Domb | Dec 9, 1920 | United Kingdom | Physicist |
Cyril Domb (born 9 December 1920) is a physicist best known for his lecturing and writing on the theory of phase transitions and critical phenomena of fluids, as well as for his writings on Science and Judaism. He now lives in Israel.
He was...
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| x James Guillaume |
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Feb 16, 1844 | United Kingdom |
James Guillaume (February 16, 1844 - November 20, 1916) was a leading member of the Jura federation of the First International, the anarchist wing of the International. Later, Guillaume would take an active role in the founding of the Anarchist St....
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| x Jacquie O'Sullivan |
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Aug 7, 1960 | England | Singer |
Jacquie O'Sullivan (born 7 August 1960, London, England) is a singer and songwriter.
O'Sullivan was originally a member of the country/punk/rockabilly group Shillelagh Sisters. In 1978 she was one of three backing vocalists on Status Quo's album "If...
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| x Edward Berry |
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1768 | United Kingdom |
Rear Admiral Sir Edward Berry, 1st Baronet, KCB (1768 – 13 February 1831) was an officer in Britain's Royal Navy primarily known for his role as flag captain of Rear Admiral Horatio Nelson's ship HMS Vanguard at the Battle of the Nile, prior to his...
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| x Niels Kaj Jerne |
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Dec 23, 1911 | Denmark | Physician |
Niels Kaj Jerne, FRS (December 23, 1911 – October 7, 1994) was a Danish (English-born) immunologist. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1984. The citation read "For theories concerning the specificity in development and...
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| x Alex Hyde-White | Jan 30, 1959 | England |
Alex Punch Hyde-White (born January 30, 1959) is an English film and television actor. He is sometimes credited as Alex Hyde White.
Hyde-White was born in London, the son of Ethel M. (née Korenman), a stage manager who acted under the name Ethel...
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| x Shashi Tharoor |
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Mar 9, 1956 | India | Novelist |
Shashi Tharoor (Hindi: शशि थरूर Malayalam: ശശി തരൂര് ) (born 9 March 1956) is the Indian Minister of State for External Affairs and a member of the Indian Parliament from the Trivandrum constituency in Kerala. He served as the UN Under-Secretary...
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| x Penelope Dudley Ward |
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Aug 4, 1914 | England |
Penelope Ann Rachel, Lady Reed (4 August 1914 – 22 January 1982), known as Penelope Dudley-Ward, was an English actress.
Born Penelope Anne Rachel Dudley Ward in London, she was the elder daughter of The Right Honourable William Dudley Ward and the...
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| x Brian Cotter, Baron Cotter | Aug 24, 1938 | Politician |
Brian Joseph Michael Cotter, Baron Cotter (born 24 August 1938) is a politician in the United Kingdom. He was Liberal Democrat Member of Parliament for Weston-super-Mare, from the 1997 election until 2005.
Born in London, the son of a doctor from...
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| x Ashlyn Martin | Mar 20, 1946 |
Ashlyn Martin (born March 20, 1946 in London, England) is the stage name of Laura Lynn Hale, an American model and actress who was Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for its April 1964 issue. Her centerfold was photographed by Pompeo Posar and...
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| x Jill Esmond |
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Jan 26, 1908 | England | Actor |
Jill Esmond (born Jill Esmond Moore) (26 January 1908 – 28 July 1990) was an English actress.
Esmond was born in London, the daughter of stage actors Henry V. Esmond and Eva Moore. While her parents toured with theatre companies, Esmond spent her...
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| x Val Guest |
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Dec 11, 1911 | England | Screenwriter |
Val Guest (11 December 1911 – 10 May 2006) was a British film director, best known for his science-fiction films for Hammer Film Productions in the 1950s, but who also enjoyed a long, varied and active career in the film industry from the early...
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| x Vanessa Redgrave |
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Jan 30, 1937 | England | Actor |
Vanessa Redgrave CBE (born 30 January 1937) is an Oscar winning English actress of stage, film and television. She is a member of the Redgrave family, the world-renowned theatrical dynasty. A former Trotskyist and leading member of the Workers'...
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| x Marie-Chantal, Crown Princess of Greece | Sep 17, 1968 | United States of America |
Princess Marie-Chantal, Crown Princess of Greece, Princess of Denmark (née Marie-Chantal Claire Miller; born 17 September 1968 in London), is a member of the Greek Royal Family. A socialite and children's clothing designer, she is the wife of Pavlos...
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| x Larry Martyn |
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Mar 22, 1934 | England | Actor |
Lawrence "Larry" Martyn (22 March, 1934 - 7 August 1994) was an English actor known for his comedy performances.
Martyn was a former member of the Parachute Regiment and was born in London. He was famous as Mr. Mash in the BBC comedy series Are You...
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| x China Chow |
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Apr 1974 | England |
China Chow (born April 1974) is a British actress and model of mixed Chinese, Japanese, German, and Scottish descent.
Chow was born in London, England to restaurateur Michael Chow and late model/designer Tina Chow. Her father is of Chinese and...
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| x Colin Clark |
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Nov 2, 1905 | United Kingdom | Statistician |
Colin Grant Clark (November 2, 1905 - September 4, 1989) was a British economist and statistician who worked in both the United Kingdom and Australia, and who pioneered the use of the gross national product ("GNP") as the basis for studying national...
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| x Renee Asherson | May 19, 1920 | England |
Renée Asherson (born 19 May 1920 in Gerrards Cross, England), sometimes credited as Renee Asherson, is an English actress with a distinguished career in theatre, films, and television. Much of Asherson's theatrical career was spent in Shakespearean...
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| x Virginia Woolf |
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Jan 25, 1882 | England | Writer |
Adeline Virginia Woolf (born Stephen; 25 January 1882 – 28 March 1941) was an English novelist, essayist, epistler, publisher, feminist, and writer of short stories, regarded as one of the foremost modernist literary figures of the twentieth century...
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| x George Zukerman | Feb 22, 1927 | Canada |
George Benedict Zukerman, OC, OBC (born February 22, 1927) is a Canadian bassoonist.
In 1992, he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada. In 1996, he was awarded the Order of British Columbia.
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| x Hayley Angel Wardle | Feb 27, 1983 | England | Musician |
Hayley Angel Wardle (previously Hayley Wardle) (born 27 February 1983) is an actress born in London, England.
She spent the formative years of her childhood growing up in the South Bank area.
Hayley was originally brought up in Southwark, and...
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| x Charles Conder |
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Oct 24, 1868 | Australia |
Charles Edward Conder (24 October 1868 – 9 February 1909) was an English-born painter, who emigrated to Australia and was a key figure in the Heidelberg School, arguably the beginning of a distinctively Australian tradition in Western art.
Born in...
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| x Nicholas Heath |
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1501 |
Nicholas Heath (c. 1501 – 1578) was archbishop of York and Lord Chancellor.
Heath was born in London and graduated BA at Oxford in 1519. He then migrated to Christ's College, Cambridge, where he graduated BA in 1520, MA in 1522, and was elected...
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| x Richard Basil Brandram Jones |
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Apr 30, 1897 | United Kingdom |
Richard Basil Brandram Jones VC (30 April 1897 - 21 May 1916) was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest award for gallantry in the face of the enemy awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.
On 21 May 1916 at Broadmarsh Crater,...
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| x George Collier |
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May 11, 1738 | United Kingdom |
Sir George Collier (11 May 1738 – 6 April 1795) was an officer of the Royal Navy who saw service during the Seven Years War, the American War of Independence and the French Revolutionary Wars. As commander of the frigate HMS Rainbow, he was one of...
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| x Oliver Leese |
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Oct 27, 1884 | United Kingdom |
Lieutenant-General Sir Oliver William Hargreaves Leese, 3rd Baronet, KCB, CBE, DSO (27 October 1894 - 22 January 1978) was a British general during World War II.
Leese was the son of Sir William Hargreaves Leese, 2nd Baronet, a barrister, and...
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| x Colin Turnbull | Nov 23, 1924 | United States of America | Writer |
Colin Macmillan Turnbull (November 23, 1924 - July 28, 1994) was a famous British-American anthropologist who came to public attention with the popular books The Forest People (on the Mbuti Pygmies of Zaire) and The Mountain People (on the Ik people...
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| x Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen |
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Mar 11, 1965 | England | Presenter |
Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen (born 11 March 1965 in London) is a Welsh interior designer and television and radio personality best known for his appearances on the BBC television programme Changing Rooms. He is noted for his flamboyant personality and...
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| x Talbot Hobbs | Aug 24, 1864 | Architect |
Lieutenant General Sir Joseph John Talbot Hobbs KCB, KCMG, VD (24 August 1864 – 21 April 1938) was an Australian architect and First World War general.
Hobbs was born in London, the son of Joseph and his wife Frances Ann Hobbs, née Wilson. Educated...
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| x Hannah Primrose, Countess of Rosebery |
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Jul 27, 1851 | England |
Hannah Primrose, Countess of Rosebery (27 July 1851 – 19 November 1890) was the daughter of Mayer de Rothschild and his wife Juliana, née Cohen. Upon the death of her father in 1874 she became the richest woman in Britain.
Her husband, the 5th Earl...
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| x Patricia Hitchcock | Jul 7, 1928 | England | Actor |
Patricia Hitchcock O'Connell (born July 7, 1928, London, UK) is a British-born American actress and producer.
She is the only child of the film director Alfred Hitchcock and film editor Alma Reville. The family moved to Los Angeles, California, in...
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| x William Paget, 1st Baron Paget |
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1506 |
William Paget, 1st Baron Paget of Beaudesert (1506 – 9 June 1563), English statesman, son of William Paget, one of the serjeants-at-mace of the city of London, was born in Staffordshire in 1506, and was educated at St Paul's School, and at Trinity...
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| x Yvonne Barr | 1932 | United Kingdom |
Yvonne Barr (born 1932 in London) is a British virologist. She assisted Michael Anthony Epstein in the discovery of the Epstein-Barr virus (EBV). Barr graduated from the University of London in 1966 with a Ph.D. Later in her life, she married an...
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| x Pippa Haywood |
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Jun 22, 1955 | England | Actor |
Philippa Haywood is an English actress who trained at Bristol Old Vic Theatre School.
Famous for playing the much-put-upon Helen Brittas in the BBC Two comedy series The Brittas Empire, has an extensive television career which includes Julie...
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| x Patrick Dalzel-Job |
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Jun 1, 1913 | United Kingdom |
Patrick Dalzel-Job (1 June 1913 - 14 October 2003), was a distinguished British Naval Intelligence Officer and Commando of World War II. He was also an accomplished linguist, author, mariner, navigator, parachutist, diver and skier.
Born in London,...
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