English author (died 1969)

John Wyndham

John Wyndham Parkes Lucas Beynon Harris was an English science fiction writer best known for his works published under the pen name John Wyndham, although he also used other combinations of his names, such as John Beynon and Lucas Parkes. Some of his works were set in post-apocalyptic landscapes. His best known works include The Day of the Triffids (1951), filmed in 1962, and The Midwich Cuckoos (1957), which was filmed in 1960 as Village of the Damned, in 1995 under the same title, and again in 2022 in Sky Max under its original title.

Born

1903

July 10

Died

1969

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1900s

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1903 Born
1969 Died

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645 Isshi Incident: Prince Naka-no-Ōe and Fujiwara no Kamatari assassinate Soga no Iruka during a coup d'état at the imperial palace.
988 The Norse King Glúniairn recognises Máel Sechnaill mac Domnaill, High King of Ireland, and agrees to pay taxes and accept Brehon Law; the event is considered to be the founding of the city of Dublin.

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The world in 1903

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april 19 The Kishinev pogrom in Kishinev (Bessarabia) begins, forcing tens of thousands of Jews to later seek refuge in Palestine and the Western world.
april 26 Atlético Madrid Association football club is founded.
april 29 A landslide kills 70 people in Frank, in the District of Alberta, Canada.
august 18 German engineer Karl Jatho allegedly flies his self-made, motored gliding airplane four months before the first flight of the Wright brothers.

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Alec Douglas-Home 1903–1995 English cricketer and politician, 66th Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (died 1995) Caroline Pafford Miller 1903–1992 American author (died 1992) Fernandel 1903– French actor and singer (died 1971) Frank P. Ramsey 1903–1930 English economist, mathematician, and philosopher (died 1930) Frank Sargeson 1903– New Zealand writer (died 1982) Georg Elser 1903– German carpenter and attempted assassin of Adolf Hitler (died 1945) Giulio Natta 1903–1979 Italian chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1979) Guy Simonds 1903– English-Canadian general (died 1974) Harold Eugene Edgerton 1903–1990 American engineer and academic (died 1990)

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