Sir Andrew Frank Davis was an English conductor. He was the long-time chief conductor of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, the BBC Symphony Orchestra and the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra. He was music director at the Glyndebourne Festival from 1988 to 2000, and especially known for conducting the traditional Last Night of The Proms, including Last Night speeches. He was music director and principal conductor of the Lyric Opera of Chicago from 2000 to the 2020/21 season.

1944Geoffrey Hughes, English actor (died 2012)^[†]

Geoffrey William Hughes DL was an English actor. Hughes provided the voice of Paul McCartney in the animated film Yellow Submarine (1968), and rose to fame for portraying bin man Eddie Yeats in the long-running British soap opera Coronation Street from 1974 to 1983, making a return to the show in 1987. He is well known for playing loveable slob Onslow in the British sitcom Keeping Up Appearances (1990–1995) and "Twiggy" in the sitcom The Royle Family, playing the part from 1998 to 2008.

1944Ursula Oppens, American pianist and educator^[†]

Ursula Oppens is an American classical concert pianist and educator. She has received five Grammy Award nominations.

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$103,889,600 in War Bonds Sold At Rally on Stock Exchange Floor; $103,889,600 RAISED AT WALL ST. RALLY

Public Told to Delay '44 Tax Estimates

GRIP ON KWAJALEIN; Marine and Infantry Units Strike, Shielded by Record Armada LOSSES ARE MODERATE Our Forces as Close to Japan as Foe Was to U.S. at Pearl Harbor The War in the Pacific Moves into a New Phase With the Occupation of Islands in the Marshalls GRIP ON KWAJALEIN WON BY U.S. UNITS

We Lose 22 Planes, Save All but 6 Men

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