1970 Birthday Peta Wilson, born in Sydney, Australia, model, actress, appeared in films, 'The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen' and 'Superman Returns' 1963 Birthday Roger Harper, cricketer, Guyana and WI off-spinner Extraordinary field 1945 Birthday Barry Richards, extraordinary cricket batsman, 4 Tests for South Africa 1889 Death Charles Mackay, poet, writer, journalist, songwriter, wrote for the Morning Chronicle, Illustrated London News, wrote book 'Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds', 1841, wrote popular song 'Cheer, Boys, Cheer', dies 1885 Event Pope Leo XIII proclaims extraordinary jubilee 1814 Birthday Charles Mackay, born in Perth, Scotland, poet, writer, journalist, songwriter, wrote for the Morning Chronicle, Illustrated London News, wrote book 'Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds', 1841, wrote popular song 'Cheer, Boys, Cheer' 1766 Birthday Madame de Stael, Swiss-French belle-lettrist, An Extraordinary Woman