English businessman and journalist

Ben Summerskill

Ben Jeffrey Peter Summerskill is chair of The Silver Line and director of the Criminal Justice Alliance, a consortium of 135 charities working across the GB criminal justice pathway. He was the chief executive of the UK-based lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender equality organisation Stonewall, the largest LGBTQ+ equality body in Europe, from 2003 to 2014. He has also worked as a businessman and journalist. Summerskill is an occasional contributor to The Guardian, The Independent on Sunday, The Observer, The Times, Time Out and other publications.

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1961

October 6

Died

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1960s

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Key dates

1961 Born

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What else happened on this day, through history

-105 Cimbrian War: Defeat at the Battle of Arausio of the Roman army of the mid-Republic
-69 Third Mithridatic War: The military of the Roman Republic subdues Armenia.
23 Rebels decapitate Wang Mang, only Emperor of the Xin Dynasty, after his capital was sacked during a peasant rebellion.
404 Byzantine Empress Eudoxia dies from the miscarriage of her seventh pregnancy.

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The world in 1961

When Ben arrived

april 11 The trial of Adolf Eichmann begins in Jerusalem.
april 12 Space Race: The Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin becomes the first human to travel into outer space and perform the first crewed orbital flight, Vostok 1.
april 16 In a nationally broadcast speech, Cuban leader Fidel Castro declares that he is a Marxist–Leninist and that Cuba is going to adopt Communism.
april 17 Bay of Pigs Invasion: A group of Cuban exiles financed and trained by the CIA lands at the Bay of Pigs in Cuba with the aim of ousting Fidel Castro.

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Same-day contemporaries

Also born on October 6

Adam Gemili 1993– English sprinter Barbara Castle 1910–2002 Baroness Castle of Blackburn, English politician, First Secretary of State (born 1910) Fannie Lou Hamer 1917–1977 American activist and philanthropist (born 1917) Ferenc Nádasdy 1555–1604 Hungarian noble (born 1555) George Montagu-Dunk 1716–1771 2nd Earl of Halifax, English politician, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (born 1716) Hafez al-Assad 1930–2000 Syrian general and politician, 18th President of Syria (born 1930) James McGill 1744–1813 Scottish-Canadian businessman and philanthropist, founded McGill University (born 1744) Mark Field 1964– German-English lawyer and politician Marshall Rosenberg 1934–2015 American psychologist and author (born 1934)

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Same-year contemporaries

Also born in 1961

Alain Vigneault 1961– Canadian ice hockey player and coach Ann Coulter 1961– American political commentator and author Artur Ekert 1961– Polish-British physicist and academic Cam Cameron 1961– American football player and coach Carl Lewis 1961– American long jumper and runner Christian Okoye 1961– American football player Cindy Herron 1961– American singer-songwriter and actress David Armstrong-Jones 1961– 2nd Earl of Snowdon, English businessman David Brooks 1961– American journalist and author

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