RUDYARD KIPLING DIES AT AGE OF 70; CONSCIOUS AT END; Wife and Daughter Are With Him at Death Resulting From Peritonitis After Operation.
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Accepts resignations from Treasury of T J Coolidge and L W Robert with regret
Dr Goebbels states Reich can get along without butter but not without cannons and rifles, essential for defense
1936Tim Barlow, English actor (died 2023)[โ ]
Michael John Leigh Barlow was an English actor who performed many small roles in a variety of films, television programmes, and plays, under the stage name Tim Barlow or Timothy Barlow.
1936David Howell, Baron Howell of Guildford, English journalist and politician, Secretary of State for Transport[โ ]
David Arthur Russell Howell, Baron Howell of Guildford, is a British Conservative Party politician, journalist, and economic consultant. Having been successively Secretary of State for Energy and then for Transport under Margaret Thatcher, Howell has more recently been a Minister of State in the Foreign Office from the election in 2010 until the reshuffle of 2012. He has served as Chair of the House of Lords International Relations Committee since May 2016. Along with William Hague, Sir George Young and Kenneth Clarke, he is one of the few Cabinet ministers from the 1979โ97 governments who continued to hold high office in the party, being its deputy leader in the House of Lords until 2010. His daughter, Frances, was married to the former Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne.
1936Hermanus Brockmann, Dutch rower (born 1871)[โ ]
Hermanus Gerardus "Herman" Brockmann was a Dutch coxswain who competed in the 1900 Summer Olympics.
1936Rudyard Kipling, English author and poet, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1865)[โ ]
Joseph Rudyard Kipling was an English journalist, novelist, poet and short-story writer. He was born in British India, which inspired much of his work.