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Brit Admiralty announces German ship losses, Brit submarine torpedoing of battleship Adm Scheer, Hardy casualty list and mine fields laid off German Baltic coast
Police ordinance requires Pk Dept permit for pub meetings
German planes drop warning leaflets over Halden signed by von Falkenhorst
G Ansaldo warns Italy will enter war soon; says no country can isolate itself from conflict; Ital fleet massing near Dodecanese Islands seen as part of Rome-Berlin Axis strategy; Ital press anti-Allied tone seen to be Mussolini's means to temper pub spirits for war; J L Garvin warns Italy of U S intervention if Italy or USSR join Germany
to stump State in own behalf; assured of support
1940Jeffrey Archer, English author, playwright, and politician[†]
Jeffrey Howard Archer, Baron Archer of Weston-super-Mare is an English novelist and former politician. He was Member of Parliament (MP) for Louth (Lincolnshire) from 1969 to 1974, but did not seek re-election after a financial scandal that left him almost bankrupt.
1940Penelope Coelen, South African actress, model, beauty queen and 1958 Miss World[†]
Penelope Anne Coelen is a South African former actress, model and beauty queen who won Miss World 1958. She was the second major international titleholder to come from Africa.
1940Willie Davis, American baseball player and actor (died 2010)[†]
William Henry Davis was an American professional baseball player. He played in Major League Baseball and the Nippon Professional Baseball league as a center fielder from 1960 through 1979, most prominently as an integral member of the Los Angeles Dodgers teams that won three National League pennants and two World Series titles between 1963 and 1966.
1940Robert Lacroix, Canadian economist and academic[†]
Robert Lacroix, is a professor of economics at the Université de Montréal in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
1940Robert Walker, American actor (died 2019)[†]
Robert Hudson Walker Jr. was an American actor who appeared in films including Easy Rider (1969) and was a familiar presence on television in the 1960s and early 1970s.