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Norwich, England

LOCATION

Official Website:
http://www.norwich.gov.uk/

Population:
123,483 (2003)

BIRTHS

NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Ed Balls
Politician
25-Feb-1967   British MP, Normanton
Angela Beesley
Business
3-Aug-1977   Co-Founder of Wikia, Inc.
Thomas Bilney
Religion
c. 1495 19-Aug-1531 English martyr, influenced Latimer
Edward Bullard
Physicist
21-Sep-1907 3-Apr-1980 Continental drift, magnetic fields
John Caius
Doctor
6-Oct-1510 29-Jul-1573 Second founder of Gonville and Caius College
Samuel Clarke
Philosopher
11-Oct-1675 17-May-1729 Newtonian theologian
John Crome
Painter
22-Dec-1768 22-Apr-1821 Painter of trees, Norwich School
Robert Greene
Playwright
Jul-1558 3-Sep-1592 Friar Bacon
Jimmy Hanley
Actor
22-Oct-1918 13-Jan-1970 Jim's Inn
Luke Hansard
Publisher
5-Jul-1752 28-Oct-1828 English printer
William Jackson Hooker
Botanist
6-Jul-1785 12-Aug-1865 British Jungermanniae
Harriet Martineau
Author
12-Jun-1802 27-Jun-1876 Maid of All Work
Thomas Morley
Composer
c. 1557 Oct-1602 Laboravi in Gemitu Meo
Paul Nurse
Scientist
25-Jan-1949   Regulators of cell cycle
Beth Orton
Singer/Songwriter
14-Dec-1970   Folk singer/songwriter
Matthew Parker
Religion
6-Aug-1504 15-May-1575 Archbishop of Canterbury, 1559-75
Philip Pullman
Novelist
19-Oct-1946   His Dark Materials
Anthony Frederick Augustus Sandys
Painter
1-May-1829 25-Jun-1904 Pre-Raphaelite British painter

DEATHS

NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Malcolm Bradbury
Critic
7-Sep-1932 27-Nov-2000 The History Man
Sir Thomas Browne
Author
19-Oct-1605 19-Oct-1682 Pseudodoxia Epidemica
John Crome
Painter
22-Dec-1768 22-Apr-1821 Painter of trees, Norwich School
Richard L. M. Synge
Chemist
28-Oct-1914 18-Aug-1994 Partition chromatography



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