Subject: John Galsworthy
Born 14/8/1867, 158 years ago
Novelist and playwright. Born Kingston Hill, Surrey. Nobel Prize for literature, 1932. The Forsyte Saga is his best known work. Died Grove Lodge, Hampstead.
4 memorials
Subject: Charles Gibson
Died 14/8/1944, 81 years ago
Charles William Gibson was born on 27 June 1925, the eldest of the three sons of Charles Gibson (1898-1945) and Ellen Beatrice Maud Kent Gibson née Tayler (1901-1951). His father was a motor driver...
War dead, WW2
1 memorial
Subject: Sidney Godley
Born 14/8/1889, 136 years ago
Soldier. Born Sidney Frank Godley in East Grinstead, West Sussex. Fought with the 4th Battalion, Royal Fusiliers. He was awarded the first Victoria Cross of WW1, and was also the first private sold...
2 memorials
Subject: Fiona Grey
Born 14/8/1966, 59 years ago
An IT Consultant from Alexandria, Dumbarton, killed in the Ladbroke Grove rail disaster, aged 33. Andrew Behan has kindly carried out further research: Fiona Janet T. Grey was born on 14 August 19...
1 memorial
Subject: Eddie Ingram
Born 14/8/1910, 115 years ago
Cricketer. Born Edward Ingram in Dublin. Made his debut for the Ireland cricket team ten days before his 18th birthday. He began playing county cricket for Middlesex in 1938. Died Basingstoke, Hamp...
1 memorial
Subject: Flying Officer Herbert Harry Kirby, D.F.C.
Died 14/8/1943, 82 years ago
Herbert Harry Kirby was born on 20 March 1916 in Battersea, London, a son of Alfred Kirby (1886-1978) and Ann Elizabeth Kirby, née Seatry (1886-1981). His birth was registered in the 2nd quarter of...
War dead, WW2
1 memorial
Subject: Cyril Gordon Martin, VC
Died 14/8/1980, 45 years ago
Awarded the VC for his heroism on 12 March 1915, age 23, while serving in the Corps of Royal Engineers. "With a party of six infantry bombers under intense enemy fire he held back enemy reinforceme...
War served, WW1
1 memorial
Subject: Alfred Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe
Died 14/8/1922, 103 years ago
Born near Dublin. As a keen cyclist (on a penny-farthing) Harmsworth was submitting freelance articles to the cycle press in the 1880s. In 1886 he was editing Bicycling News. With his brother Haro...
2 memorials
Subject: Olympic Games - 1948
Ended 14/8/1948, 77 years ago
The 1948 Summer Olympics were the first Summer Olympics held since the 1936 Games in Berlin. The second time London had hosted, 1908 being the first. The 1948 Olympics came to be known as the "Aus...
2 memorials
Subject: George Henry Paulin
Born 14/8/1888, 137 years ago
Sculptor.  born Scotland.  Known as Harry.  Served inWW1 first in the army as a trooper, then in the Royal Flying Corps, then in the  Royal Naval Air Service which became the Royal Air Force.  So h...
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