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World War II

UK during World War II

Contents 1 Events 2 Births 2.1 January - April 2.2 May - August 2.3 September - December 3 Deaths

[edit] Events

• February 25 - Princess Elizabeth registers for war service
• April 5 - World War II: Japanese Navy attacks Colombo in Ceylon (Sri Lanka). Royal Navy Cruisers HMS Cornwall and HMS Dorsetshire are sunk southwest of the island.
• April 9 - World War II: Japanese Navy launches air raid on Trincomalee in Ceylon (Sri Lanka); Royal Navy Aircraft Carrier HMS Hermes and Royal Australian Navy Destroyer HMAS Vampire are sunk off the country's East Coast.
• August 25- Prince George, Duke of Kent, the brother of King George VI is killed in an air crash near Caithness, Scotland.
• October 29 - Holocaust: Leading clergymen and political figures hold a public meeting to register outrage over Nazi Germany's persecution of Jews.
• November 3 - World War II: Second Battle of El Alamein ends - German forces under Erwin Rommel are forced to retreat during the night.
• December 7 - British commandos conduct Operation Frankton a raid on shipping in Bordeaux harbour.

[edit] Births

[edit] January - April

• January 3 - John Thaw, English actor (d. 2002)
• January 8 - Stephen Hawking, British physicist
• January 8 - George Passmore, English artist (Gilbert and George)
• January 19 - Michael Crawford, English singer and actor
• January 31 - Derek Jarman, English director and writer (d. 1994)
• February 1 - Terry Jones, Welsh actor and writer
• February 2 - Graham Nash, English musician
• February 28 - Brian Jones, English musician (The Rolling Stones) (d. 1969)
• March 9 - John Cale, Welsh composer and musician
• March 25 - Richard O'Brien, English actor and writer
• March 27 - John E. Sulston, British chemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
• March 27 - Michael York, English actor
• March 28 - Neil Kinnock, British statesman
• March 28 - Mike Newell, British film director
• April 5 - Peter Greenaway, Welsh filmmaker
• April 8 - Roger Chapman, British singer (Family, Streetwalkers)

[edit] May - August

• May 8 - Terry Neill, Northern Irish footballer and football manager
• May 12 - Ian Dury, British musician (d. 2000)
• May 18 - Albert Hammond, English-born musician and composer
• May 18 - Nobby Stiles, English footballer
• June 18 - Paul McCartney, English musician and composer (The Beatles)
• June 24 - Mick Fleetwood, English drummer (Fleetwood Mac)
• July 4 - Prince Michael of Kent
• July 7 - Carmen Duncan, Welsh-born Australian actress
• July 17 - Tim Brooke-Taylor, English radio and television personality
• July 23 - Myra Hindley, English murderer
• August 26 - Dennis Turner, British politician

[edit] September - December

• September 17 - Desmond Lynam, British TV presenter
• October 26 - Bob Hoskins, English actor
• November 24 - Billy Connolly, Scottish comedian
• November 29 - Michael Craze, British actor (d. 1998)
• December 4 - Gemma Jones, British actress
• December 31 - Andy Summers, English musician

[edit] Deaths

• January 16- Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn- third eldest son of Queen Victoria (b. 1850)
• February 16 - Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn, son of Queen Victoria (b. 1850)
• March 10 - William Henry Bragg, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1862)
• April 16- Princess Alexandra of Edinburgh and Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, granddaughter of Queen Victoria
• June 7 - Alan Blumlein, English electronics engineer (b. 1903)
• July 28 - William Matthew Flinders Petrie, English Egyptologist (b. 1853)
• August 25- Prince George, Duke of Kent, fourth eldest son of King George V