1929 Birthday Leslie Wight, cricketer, one Test WI vs. India 1953, scored 21 1917 Event British Mendi sinks off Isle of Wight, 627 die 1916 Birthday James Alfred Wight Herriot, veterinarian/novelist 1912 Birthday Marius Goring, Isle of Wight, actor, Herr Palitz-Holocaust 1635 Birthday Robert Hooke, Isle of Wight, physicist, Micrographia
