English economist and civil servant (died 2018)

Jeremy Heywood

Jeremy John Heywood, Baron Heywood of Whitehall, was a British civil servant who served as Cabinet Secretary to David Cameron and Theresa May from 2012 to 2018 and Head of the Home Civil Service from 2014 to 2018. He served as the Principal Private Secretary to Prime Ministers Tony Blair and Gordon Brown from 1999 to 2003 and 2008 to 2010. He also served as Downing Street Chief of Staff and the first Downing Street Permanent Secretary. After he was diagnosed with lung cancer, he took a leave of absence from June 2018, and retired on health grounds on 24 October 2018, receiving a life peerage; he died 11 days later on 4 November 2018.

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What else happened on this day, through history

406 Vandals, Alans and Suebians cross the Rhine, beginning an invasion of Gaul.
535 Byzantine general Belisarius completes the conquest of Sicily, defeating the Gothic garrison of Palermo (Panormos), and ending his consulship for the year.
870 Battle of Englefield: The Vikings clash with ealdorman Æthelwulf of Berkshire. The invaders are driven back to Reading (East Anglia); many Danes are killed.
1105 Holy Roman Emperor Henry IV is forced to abdicate in favor of his son, Henry V, in Ingelheim.

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The world in 1961

When Jeremy 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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Andreas Vesalius 1514–1564 Belgian anatomist, physician, and author (died 1564) John Frost 1912– Indian-English general (died 1993) King Kelly 1857– American baseball player and manager (died 1894) Matt Cross 1980– American wrestler Muhammad ibn al-Qasim 695– Umayyad general (died 715) Raphael Kaplinsky 1946– South African international development academic Ray Graves 1918– American football player and coach (died 2015) Vishnudevananda Saraswati 1927– Indian yoga guru (died 1993)

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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 Ben Summerskill 1961– English businessman and journalist 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

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