Births: Georg Telemann, composer, born in Magdeburg, Germany, 1681; Johann Strauss, violinist and composer, born in Vienna, 1804; Giovanni Schiaparelli, astronomer, born in Savigliano, Italy, 1835; Isabella Beeton, author of The Book of Household Management, born in London, 1836; Sir Thomas Lauder Brunton, physician who discovered the relief given by amyl nitrite in cases of angina pectoris, born in Hiltonshill, Roxburghshire, 1844; Albert Einstein, theoretical physicist, born in Ulm, Germany, 1879.
Deaths: John Byng, British admiral who, for failing to relieve Minorca, was executed in Portsmouth, 1757; Karl Marx, economic theorist who co-wrote The Communist Manifesto, died in London, 1883; George Eastman, pioneer of photography, died in Rochester, New York, 1932; Nikolai Bukharin, Soviet journalist, executed in Moscow, 1938; Sir Huw Wheldon, broadcaster, died in London, 1986.