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18 April 2006, Ken Jones, rugby player, died (born 30 December 1921)

21 December 2005, Richard Knapp, rugby player, died (born 10 May 1919)

17 December 2005, Jacques Fouroux, rugby player, died (born 24 July 1947)

27 August 1995, The International Rugby Football Board, the Governing Body of Rugby Union, voted unanimously to end the game�s amateur status.

17 October 1994, Augustus Risman, rugby player, died (born 21 March 1911).

29 September� 1993, Alfred Ellaby, rugby player, died (born 24 November 1902).

19 July 1991, Marten Hodgson, rugby player, died (born 26 March 1909).

8 December 1990, John Currie, rugby player, died (born 3 May 1932).

9 March 1988, Ronald Cove-Smith, rugby player, died (born 26 November 1899)

5 July 1987, Ernest Ward, rugby player, died (born 30 July 1920).

16 September� 1986, James Brough, rugby player, died (born 5 November 1903).

16 January 1985, Matt Holloway, New Zealand rugby player, was born.

10 January 1983, Carwyn James, rugby player, died.

16 November 1982, Ivor Jones, rugby player, died.

2 March 1981, Phil MacPherson, rugby player, died (born 14 December 1903).

24 October 1979, James Farrell, rugby player, died (born 7 August 1903).

14 September� 1977, James Sullivan, rugby player, died (born 2 December 1903).

14 August 1976, David Valentine, rugby player, died (born 12 September� 1926).

30 May 1975, Andrew Farrell, rugby player, was born.

12 May 1975, Jonah Lomu, rugby player, was born.

22 March 1973, William Llewellyn, rugby player, died (born 1 January 1878).

4 January 1973, John Samuel Tucker, rugby player, died (born 1 June 1895).

14 November 1972, Alfred Shrub, athlete (runner), died (born 12 December 1879).

31 October 1972, Matt Dawson, English rugby player, was born in Birkenhead

18 September� 1972, Ian Smith, rugby player, was born.

10 August 1972, Lawrence Dallaglio, rugby player, was born

7 June 1972, Curtis Robb, athlete, was born.

9 April 1972, Jonathan Parkin, rugby player, died.

8 July 1971, Neil Jenkins, rugby player, was born.

5 August 1970, George Stephenson, rugby player, died (born 22 December 1901).

9 March 1970, Martin Johnson, rugby player, was born.

14 September� 1969, Denis Betts, rugby player, was born.

10 April 1969, Johnny Bannerman, rugby player, died (born 1 September� 1901).

15 October 1968, Craig Chalmers, rugby player, was born in Galashiels, Scotland.

15 April 1968, Ben Clarke, rugby player, was born.

13 November 1967, George Beamish, rugby player, was born.

26 April 1967, William Davies, rugby player, died (born 21 June 1890).

29 December 1966, Martin Offiah, rugby player, was born.

17 October 1966, Shaun Edwards, rugby player, was born in Wigan.

12 December 1965, Will Carling, rugby player, was born.

10 November 1965, Robert Jones, rugby player, was born.

4 December 1964, Scott Hastings, rugby player, was born.

21 March 1964, Ieuan Evans, rugby player, was born Carmarthenshire, Wales.

26 November 1963, Joe Lydon, rugby player, was born.

30 October 1963, Brendan Mullin, rugby player, was born.

25 October 1963, Michael Lynaugh, rugby player, was born

24 August 1963, Jonathan Webb, rugby player, was born.

11 July 1963, Dean Richards, rugby player, was born.

19 June 1963, Rory Underwood, rugby player, was born.

19 March 1963, Jake White, South African rugby player, was born in Johannesburg

18 February 1963, Rob Andrew, English rugby player, was born.

22 November 1962, Stuart Barnes, rugby player, was born.

21 October 1962, David Campese, Australian rugby player, was born.

4 September� 1962, Patrice Lagisquet, French rugby player, was born

18 April 1962, Nick Farr-Jones, Australian rugby player, was born.

15 March 1962, John Hall, rugby player, was born.

8 July 1960, Mal Meninga, rugby player, was born.

25 March 1959, John Jeffrey, rugby player, was born.

27 January 1959, William Batten, rugby player, died (born 26 May 1889).

16 September� 1958, Hugo MacNeill, rugby player, was born in Dublin, Ireland.

26 May 1958, Paul Dodge, rugby player, was born.

26 February 1958, Paul Ackford, rugby player, was born.

27 November 1957, Adrian Stoop, rugby player, died (born 27 March 1883).

20 August 1957, Jim and Finlay Carter, twins, rugby players, were born.

23 June 1957, Robert Norster, rugby player, was born.

10 March 1957, Terence Holmes, rugby player, was born.

27 April 1956, Jeffrey Probyn, rugby player, was born.

6 January 1956, Clive Woodward, rugby player, was born.

4 October 1955, John Rutherford, rugby player, was born.

3 May 1955, Colin Deans, rugby player, was born.

5 December 1954, Keith Robertson, rugby player, was born.

28 September� 1954, John Scott, England Rugby Captain, was born.

25 July 1954, George Fairbairn, rugby player, was born.

5 March 1954, Ollie Campbell, rugby player, was born.

7 October 1953, Albert Jenkins, rugby player, died (born 11 March 1895).

5 October 1953, Roy Laidlaw, rugby player, was born.

2 September� 1953, Maurice Colclough, rugby player, was born.

29 November 1952, William Hare, rugby player, was born.

9 March 1952, William Beaumont, English rugby player, was born.

12 February 1952, James Renwick, rugby player, was born.

16 September� 1951, Andrew Irvine, rugby player, was born.

4 August 1951, Peter Squires, rugby player, was born.

12 June 1951, Geoffrey Enstone, rugby player., was born.

11 May 1951, Michael Slemen, rugby player, was born.

19 March 1951, John Jones, rugby player, died.

1 February 1951, Douglas Clark, rugby player, died (born 2 May 1891).

14 December 1950, Philip Orr, rugby player, was born.

8 October 1950, Michael Teague, rugby player, was born.

11 September� 1949, Roger Uttley, rugby player, was born.

8 July 1949, Keith Fielding, rugby player, was born.

12 February 1949, Fergus Slattery, rugby player, was born.

24 October 1948, Philip Bennett, rugby player, was born.

5 June 1948, Claude Spanghero, French rugby player, was born.

18 May 1948, Keith Jarrett, rugby player, was born.

24 July 1947, Jacques Fouroux, rugby player, was born (died 17 December 2005)

12 July 1947, Gareth Edwards, rugby player, was born in Swansea

3 January 1947, Fran Cotton, rugby player, was born.

30 October 1946, John Atkinson, British rugby league player, was born.

20 September� 1945, Alexander Purves, rugby player, was born.

3 December 1943, Colin Dixon, rugby player, was born in Cardiff.

14 April 1942, Ian MacLauchlan, rugby player, was born.

17 March 1940, James Telfer, rugby player, was born.

24 July 1939, Normal Gale, rugby player, was born (died 31 January 2005).

20 June 1939, Derek Rogers, rugby player, was born.

22 April 1939, Alexander Murphy, rugby player, was born.

24 March 1939, Erith Nicholls, rugby player, died (born 15 July 1874).

7 January 1939, Thomas Kiernan, rugby player, was born in Cork, Ireland.

21 August 1938, Michael Weston, rugby player, was born.

7 August 1938, Dewi Bebb, Welsh rugby player, was born.

29 August 1936, Kenneth Scotland, rugby player, was born.

7 May 1936, Anthony O�Reilly, rugby player, was born.

7 February 1936, Keith Rowlands, rugby player, was born (died 18 November 2006)

7 July 1934, David Rollo, rugby player, was born.

20 January 1934, Cecil Pedlow, rugby player, was born.

12 January 1934, Michael Sullivan, rugby player, was born.

1 August 1933, Michael Campbell-Lamerton, rugby player, was born in Malta.

24 September� 1933, Terence Davies, rugby player, was born.

15 October 1932, Vince Karalius, rugby player, was born.

9 December 1932, David Marques, rugby player, was born.

24 August 1932, Norman Bruce, rugby player, was born (died 28 March 1992).

5 June 1932, Ronald Dawson, rugby player, was born in Dublin.

3 May 1932, John Currie, rugby player, was born (died 8 December 1990).

27 February 1932, Richard Owen(s), rugby player, died(born 17 November 1876).

25 November 1931, Richard Jeeps, rugby player, was born.

11 April 1931, Lewis Jones, rugby player, was born.

21 November 1930, Brinley Meredith, rugby player, was born.

20 November 1930, John Whiteley, rugby player, was born.

22 September� 1930, Peter Jackson, rugby player, was born.

14 July 1930, Rhys Williams, rugby player, was born (died 27 January 1993).

7 April 1930, Clifford Morgan, rugby player, was born.

31 January 1930, Roslyn Reynolds, English rugby player, was born.

9 August 1929, Jeff Butterfield, rugby player, was born.

17 June 1927, Alan Prescott, rugby player, was born.

26 November 1926, Karl Mullen, rugby player, was born.

12 September� 1926, David Valentine, rugby player, was born (died 14 August 1976).

20 August 1926, William Trew, rugby player, died.

10 February 1025, Jack Kyle, rugby player, was born.

25 September� 1925, John Kendall-Carpenter, rugby player, was born (died 23 May 1990).

22 February 1923, Bleddyn Williams, rugby player, was born.

30 December 1921, Kenneth Jones, rugby player, was born.

1 February 1921, Eric Evans, rugby player, was born (died 12 January 1991).

30 July 1920, Ernest Ward, rugby player, was born (died 9 July 1987).

22 May 1919, Desmond O�Brien, rugby player, was born.

19 March 1919, Joseph Egan, rugby player, was born in Wigan.

23 September� 1916, Kenneth Gee, rugby player, was born (died 17 April 1989).

17 February 1916, Alexander Obolensky, rugby player, was born (died 29 March 1940).

5 September� 1915, David Bedell-Sivright, rugby player, died (born 8 December 1880)

5 May 1915, Ronald Poulton, rugby player, died (born 12 September� 1889).

3 December 1914, Trevor Foster, rugby league player, was born (died 2 April 2005)

20 November 1912, Wilfred Wooller, rugby player, was born.

21 March 1911, Augustus Risman, rugby player, was born (died 17 October 1994).

15 March 1910, Stanley Brogden, rugby player, was born.

2 October 1909. The first Rugby match at Twickenham was played � Harlequins versus Richmond.

26 March 1909, Martin Hodgson, rugby player, was born (died 19 July 1991).

7 June 1907, Sir Carl Douglas Aarvold, rugby union player, was born (died 17 March 1991).

1905, The term �All Blacks� was first used to describe the New Zealand Rugby Team, based on the colour of their shirt and shorts.

26 July 1904, Eugene Davy, rugby player, was born in Dublin.

14 December 1903, Phil MacPherson, rugby player, was born (died 2 March 1981).

2 December 1903, James Sullivan, rugby player, was born (died 14 September� 1977).

5 November 1903, James Brough, rugby player, was born (died 16 September� 1986).

7 August 1903, James Farrell, rugby player, was born (died 24 October 1979).

22 December 1902, Joseph Thompson, rugby player, was born.

24 November 1902, Alfred Ellaby, rugby player, was born (died 29 September� 1993).

19 September� 1902, Herbert Waddell, rugby player, was born (died 5 January 1988)

22 December 1901, George Stephenson, rugby player, was born (died 5 August 1970).

1 September� 1901, Johnny Bannerman, rugby player, was born (died 10 April 1969).

4 November 1900, The German Rugby Federation (Deutscher Rugby-Verband) was founded at Kassel.

10 March 1898, William Wavell Wakefield, rugby player, was born (died 12 August 1983).

1897, The Challenge Cup Final was first held. It was staged at Wembley, London, from 1929.

6 September� 1897, Alexander R Armstrong, Australian rugby player, was born.

29 August 1895. The Rugby League was formed at a meeting at the George Hotel in Huddersfield.

1 June 1895, John Samuel Tucker, rugby player, was born (died 4 January 1973).

11 March 1895, Albert Jenkins, rugby player, was born (died 7 October 1953).

3 February 1895, Cecil Kershaw, rugby player, was born (died 1 November 1972).

7 October 1891, Cyril Lowe, rugby player, was born (died 6 February 1983).

19 May 1891, Harold Wagstaff, rugby player, was born (died 19 July 1939).

2 May 1891, Douglas Clark, rugby player, was born (died 1 February 1951).

21 June 1890, William Davies, rugby player, was born (died 26 April 1967).

8 January 1890, Charles Pillman, rugby player, was born (died 13 November 1955).

26 May 1889, William Batten, rugby player, was born (died 27 January 1959).

2 February 1888, Kenneth MacLeod, rugby player (also cricket, athletics) was born (died 7 March 1967).

1883, The Five Nations Tournament began., originally as Four Nations (the fifth nation, France, joined in 1910).

27 March 1883, Adrian Stoop, rugby player, was born (died 27 November 1957).

8 December 1880, David Bedell-Sivright, rugby player, was born (died 5 September� 1915)

22 October 1878, The first rugby match to be played under floodlights was held at Broughton, Lancashire; they played Swinton.

30 January 1878, Reginald Skrimshire, rugby player, was born (died 20 September� 1963).

1876, Cardiff Rugby Union Club was formed.

17 November 1876, Richard Owen(s), rugby player, was born (died 27 February 1932).

15 July 1874, Erith Nicholls, rugby player, was born (died 24 March 1939).

27 March 1871. The first international rugby match was played between Scotland and England at Edinburgh; Scotland won.

2 March 1871, Billy Bancroft, Welsh rugby player, was born (died 3 March 1959)

26 January 1871. The Rugby Football Union was founded in London, England, by 20 clubs.

1865, Bath Rugby Union Club was formed.

10 October 1864, Arthur Gould, rugby player, was born (died 2 January 1919).

22 October 1860, Henry Vassal, rugby player, was born (died 5 January 1926).

1839, The rules of rugby were formally codified, The game began in 1823 when Rugby School student William Webb Ellis, aged 17, picked up the ball in a football game, against the rules.

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