Sir Patrick Abercrombie

Subject: Sir Patrick Abercrombie

Died 23/3/1957, 68 years ago

Pioneer of town and country planning, Leslie Patrick Abercrombie was born near Manchester. Abercrombie was an academic during most of his career, and prepared one city plan and several regional st...

Person, Architecture, Transport

1 memorial
Olatunji Adeyanju

Subject: Olatunji Adeyanju

Died 23/3/2012, 13 years ago

17 year-old Olatunji was killed by a car while cycling across a pedestrian crossing.  The driver, Barry Normah, aged 28, sped through a red light, drove off after the collision and then dumped the ...

Person, Cyclist, Tragedy

1 memorial
Damon Albarn

Subject: Damon Albarn

Born 23/3/1968, 57 years ago

Musician, singer, songwriter, composer and record producer. Born Whitechapel, son of artist Keith Albarn (1939 - ). Co-founder of the band Blur and the virtual group Gorillaz.

Person, Music / songs, Seriously Famous

1 memorial
Ambika Paul

Memorial: Ambika Paul

Erected 23/3/1982, 43 years ago

W1, Portland Place, 9, Pavement Features

Two rather sad tree boxes, one empty and the other containing a dead commemorative tree.

2 subjects commemorated
Sir Roger Bannister

Subject: Sir Roger Bannister

Born 23/3/1929, 96 years ago

Athlete and doctor. Born Roger Gilbert Bannister in Harrow. While still a medical student, he won the mile event in the Oxford versus Cambridge match four times between 1947 and 1950, and was a fin...

Person, Medicine, Sport / Games, Finland

2 memorials
Thomas Roth Britten

Subject: Thomas Roth Britten

Died 23/3/1918, 107 years ago

From the parish of St Thomas in Bethnal Green and killed in WW1, a rifleman aged 20.

Person

War dead, WW1
1 memorial
Donald Campbell

Subject: Donald Campbell

Born 23/3/1921, 104 years ago

Land and water speed record-holder. Born Donald Malcolm Campbell, Canbury, Kingston Hill, Surrey. After the death of his father (Sir Malcolm Campbell), he decided to defend his water title and rega...

Person, Sport / Games, Transport, Australia

1 memorial
Henry C. Cartwright

Subject: Henry C. Cartwright

Died 23/3/1918, 107 years ago

Lewisham War Memorials gives the following information: "War Service: Staff Sergeant HARRY CHARLES CARTWRIGHT of 139 Field Ambulance, Royal Army Medical Corps was killed in action on 23 March 1918,...

Person

War dead, WW1
1 memorial
John Clench

Subject: John Clench

Born 23/3/1876, 149 years ago

John George Clench was born on 23 March 1976 in Clerkenwell. He was fifth of the ten children of Thomas James Clench (1847-1895) and Eliza Clench née Hollis (1847-1928). His father was a machine pr...

Person, France

War dead non-military, WW2
1 memorial
Canon Lewis John Collins

Subject: Canon Lewis John Collins

Born 23/3/1905, 120 years ago

Treasurer of St Paul's Cathedral in 1979 and was Canon of St Paul's from 1948 to 1981. Lewis John Collins was born on 23 March 1905 in Hawkhurst, Kent, one of the four children of Arthur Collins (...

Person, Politics & Administration, Religion

1 memorial
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