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Sunday round-up 2 August 2026
Born this day Isabel Allende, Sir Anthony Seldon, Kevin Smith and Peter O'Toole; the Government of India Act 1858 was granted Royal Assent; it is the…
Aug 2
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Eliot Wilson
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Sunday round-up 26 July 2026
Birthday big hitters include John Howard, Helen Mirren, Sandra Bullock, George Bernard Shaw and Carl Jung; and the anniversary of the Erfurt Latrine…
Jul 26
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Eliot Wilson
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Sunday round-up 19 July 2026
Birthday wishes to Sir Brian May, Dame Evelyn Glennie, Vitali Klitschko, Lizzie Borden and George McGovern, on the anniversary of Ted Kennedy's car…
Jul 19
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Eliot Wilson
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Sunday round-up 12 July 2026
Birthdays for the King of Tonga, the President of Ireland, Josiah Wedgwood and Buckminster Fuller, as well as Henry VIII's (sixth) big day, maybe this…
Jul 12
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Eliot Wilson
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Sunday round-up 5 July 2026
Birthdays for Cecil Rhodes, Sir Paul Smith, Róisin Murphy and Robbie Robertson, while Britons go to the polls in 1945 after a gap of nearly 10 years
Jul 5
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Eliot Wilson
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Sunday round-up 28 June 2026
Mel Brooks marks his centenary, candles for Hans Blix, Kathy Bates and the Crown Prince of Jordan, and the story of the imperial election of 1519, an…
Jun 29
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Reflections on the week in politics
Trump and Hegseth ease another general out, the House of Commons gets its first female Clerk and Sir Keir Starmer's responsibility and reputation
Jun 27
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Sunday round-up 21 June 2026
Happy birthday to HRH The Prince of Wales, as well as Sir Malcolm Rifkind, Brandon Flowers, Increase Mather and Lil Bub; and the Imperial German Navy…
Jun 21
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Eliot Wilson
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Sunday round-up 14 June 2026
Birthdays for Andy Irvine, Rowan Williams, Steffi Graf and the late Sir Antony Sher, on the day that the first cohort of prisoners from Tarnów were sent…
Jun 14
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Eliot Wilson
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Sunday round-up 7 June 2026
Birthdays for James Ivory, Sir Tom Jones and Liam Neeson, marking the ratification of the Lateran Treaty in 1929 and Ronald Reagan asks Mr Gorbachev to…
Jun 7
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Eliot Wilson
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Sunday round-up 31 May 2026
Birthdays for Clint Eastwood, Viktor Orbán and the late Alida Valli, plus the Battle of Jutland on 1916, the biggest naval clash of the First World War…
May 31
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Eliot Wilson
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Sunday round-up 24 May 2026
Birthdays for Bob Dylan, Dame Kristin Scott Thomas and Queen Victoria, the purchase of Manhattan Island and a collection of archive interviews
May 24
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