Events
In 1979 The Times reappeared after publication was suspended the previous December.
Births
St Augustine of Hippo, bishop and theologian, 354; King Edward III, reigned 1327-77, 1312; Lady Caroline Lamb, writer and Byron’s lover who coined the phrase that he was “mad, bad and dangerous to know”, 1785; Robert Louis Stevenson, novelist, 1850.
Deaths
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Nell Gwyn, actress and mistress of King Charles II, 1687; Arthur Hugh Clough, British poet, 1861; Camille Pissarro, Impressionist painter, 1903.