Birthdays
John Marston (baptised 7 October 1576 – 25 June 1634) was an English poet, playwright and satirist during the late Elizabethan and Jacobean periods.
Although his career as a writer lasted only a decade, his work is remembered for its energetic and often obscure style, its contributions to the development of a distinctively Jacobean style in poetry, and its idiosyncratic vocabulary
Robert Atkinson Westall (7 October 1929 – 15 April 1993) was a British author, teacher and journalist best known for his children's fiction, although he also wrote non-fiction and wrote specifically for adults.
Many of his novels aimed at a teenage audience deal with complex, dark and adult themes. He has been described at "the dean of British war novelists".
His first book, The Machine Gunners won the 1975 Carnegie Medal in Literature from the Library Association, recognising the year's outstanding children's book by a British subject.
It was named one of the top ten Medal-winning works for the 70th anniversary celebration in 2007, selected by a panel to compose the ballot for a public election of the all-time favourite.
Westall also won a second Carnegie (no one has won three), a Smarties Prize, and the once-in-a-lifetime Guardian Prize
Sarah Millicent Hermione Tuchet-Jesson, Baroness Audley, usually known as Sarah Churchill (7 October 1914 – 24 September 1982), was a British actress and dancer
Michael Hurll (7 October 1936 - 18 September 2012) was a British television producer who specialized in the comedy and light entertainment genres.
He produced many British TV shows including The Two Ronnies. Top of the Pops, and Blind Date.He was for many years a producer for the BBC, and later worked for LWT and as an independent producer. He also had a long association with television hosts Cilla Black and Noel Edmonds.
He was the originator of the British Comedy Awards,and for many years produced them, through his company Michael Hurll Television.
Sir Harold (Harry) Walter Kroto, FRS (born 7 October 1939 as Harold Walter Krotoschiner), is a British chemist and one of the three recipients to share the 1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Robert Curl and Richard Smalley.
He is the Francis Eppes Professor of Chemistry at the Florida State University, which he joined in 2004; prior to that he spent a large part of his career at the University of Sussex, where he holds an emeritus professorship
Contributed by Elizaveta Leonova
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