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A. E. J. Collins was a cricketer and soldier, most famous for his achievement, as a schoolboy, of the highest-ever recorded score in cricket, 628 not out, over four afternoons in June 1899. Collins' record-making innings drew a large crowd and increasing media interest: spectators at the Old Cliftonian match being played nearby were drawn away to watch a junior school house cricket match. Collins joined the British Army in 1902. He studied at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, before becoming an officer in the Royal Engineers. He served in France during World War I, where he was killed in action in 1914.
Albert Einstein (March 14, 1879 – April 18, 1955) was a German-born theoretical physicist, who is widely regarded as the greatest scientist of the 20th century. He proposed the theory of relativity and also made major contributions to the development of quantum mechanics, statistical mechanics, and cosmology. He was awarded the 1921 Nobel Prize for Physics for his explanation of the photoelectric effect in 1905 (his "miracle year").
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- 1726 - François-André Danican Philidor, French chess player (d. 1795)
- 1909 - Elia Kazan, Hungarian-born film director (d. 2003)
- 1911 - Todor Zhivkov, Bulgarian Communist dictator from 1956 to 1989 (d. 1998)
- 1913 - Sir Anthony Quayle, English actor (d. 1989)
- 1914 - James Van Allen, American physicist (d. 2006)
- 1917 - Jacob Lawrence, American painter (d. 2000)
- 1932 - Paul Getty, American-born philanthropist (d. 2003)
- 1936 - Buddy Holly, American singer (d. 1959)
- 1972 - Jason Isringhausen, American baseball player
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- 1892 - John Greenleaf Whittier, American poet (b. 1807)
- 1969 - Everett Dirksen, American politician (b. 1896)
- 1978 - Keith Moon, English drummer (The Who) (b. 1946)
- 1997 - Mobutu Sese Seko, dictator of Zaire (b. 1930)
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