English footballer

Faye White

Faye Deborah White, is an English former footballer who captained Arsenal Women in the FA Women's Super League and is the longest-serving female captain of England to date. Her Lionesses career spanned 15 years and five major tournament finals - a record four as captain. A UEFA Women's Champions League winner, she won both League titles and the FA Cup across three different decades with Arsenal. White was recognised for services to Sport in the Queen's New Year's Honours List 2007, being appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire In recognition of her achievements she was inducted into the English Football Hall of Fame in 2015.

Born

1978

February 2

Died

Living

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1970s

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Key dates

1978 Born

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506 Alaric II, eighth king of the Visigoths, promulgates the Breviary of Alaric (Breviarium Alaricianum or Lex Romana Visigothorum), a collection of "Roman law".
880 Battle of Lüneburg Heath: King Louis III of France is defeated by the Norse Great Heathen Army at Lüneburg Heath in Saxony.
962 Translatio imperii: Pope John XII crowns Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor, the first Holy Roman Emperor in nearly 40 years.
1032 Conrad II, Holy Roman Emperor becomes king of Burgundy.

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The world in 1978

When Faye arrived

april 14 Tbilisi demonstrations: Thousands of Georgians demonstrate against Soviet attempts to change the constitutional status of the Georgian language.
april 17 Mir Akbar Khyber is assassinated, provoking the Saur Revolution in Afghanistan.
april 27 John Ehrlichman, a former aide to U.S. President Richard Nixon, is released from the Federal Correctional Institution, Safford, Arizona, after serving 18 months for Watergate-related crimes.
april 27 The Saur Revolution begins in Afghanistan, ending the following morning with the murder of Afghan President Mohammed Daoud Khan and the establishment of the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan.

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Same-day contemporaries

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Arfa Karim 1995–2012 Pakistani student and computer prodigy (died 2012) Bozorg Alavi 1904– Iranian author and activist (died 1997) David Jason 1940– English actor, director, and producer Don Buford 1937– American baseball player and coach Fritz Kreisler 1875–1962 Austrian-American violinist and composer (died 1962) Jacques Philippe Marie Binet 1786–1856 French mathematician, physicist, and astronomer (died 1856) James Joyce 1882–1941 Irish novelist, short story writer, and poet (died 1941) John of Leiden 1509–1536 Dutch Anabaptist leader (died 1536) Jordin Tootoo 1983– Canadian ice hockey player

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Same-year contemporaries

Also born in 1978

Anamaria Marinca 1978– Romanian-English actress Andrew Rannells 1978– American actor and singer Ariel Pink 1978– American singer-songwriter Chad Johnson 1978– American football player Eiður Guðjohnsen 1978– Icelandic footballer Frederic Leclercq 1978– French heavy metal musician Gwendoline Christie 1978– English actress Hayley Wickenheiser 1978– Canadian ice hockey player Jamaal Magloire 1978– Canadian basketball player and coach

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