** Walter of Pontoise

** Walter Benjamin –

** Waltharius by Ekkehard of St. Gall ( Latin ); about Walter of Aquitaine

** Alexandreis by Walter of Châtillon ( Latin )

** The Lay of the Last Minstrel by Walter Scott ( 1805 )

** Marmion ( poem ) by Walter Scott ( 1808 )

** The Lady of the Lake ( poem ) by Walter Scott ( 1810 )

** The Vision of Don Roderick by Walter Scott ( 1811 )

** Rokeby and The Bridal of Triermain by Walter Scott ( 1813 )

** The Lord of the Isles by Walter Scott ( 1813 )

** Harold the Dauntless by Walter Scott ( 1817 )

** Naval NCO Academy " Walter Steffens " in Parow ( naval training of NCOs and seamen )

** In Cologne, Germany, Walter Seifert attacks students and teachers in an elementary school with a flamethrower, killing 10 and injuring 21.

** Alma Schindler Mahler Gropius Werfel, Austrian wife of Gustav Mahler, Walter Gropius, and Franz Werfel ( b. 1879 )

** Walter Tull, First Black infantry officer to serve in the British Army ( b. 1888 )

** The last person to be executed in New Zealand, Walter James Bolton, is hanged at Mount Eden Prison for poisoning his wife.

** Walter James Bolton, Last person to be executed in New Zealand ( b. 1888 )

** Walter Gropius, German architect ( b. 1883 )

** Walter Smith, Scottish football manager

** Walter Sisulu, South African anti-apartheid activist ( d. 2003 )

** J. Walter Kennedy, former NBA commissioner ( d. 1977 )

** Walter Goodman, British painter, illustrator and author ( b. 1838 )

** Walter Susskind, Czech conductor ( d. 1980 )

** Walter Ulbricht becomes leader of the German Communists in Moscow.

** German communists, led by Walter Ulbricht, arrive in Berlin.

** Following a hung parliament in the UK general election, Conservative prime minister Edward Heath resigns and is succeeded by Labour's Harold Wilson, who previously led the country from 1964 to 1970.

** The U. S. Navy's Commander Leroy Heath ( the pilot ) and Lieutenant Larry Monroe ( the bombardier / navigator ) establish a world flight-altitude record of 91, 450 feet ( 27, 874 m ), with payload, in an A-5 Vigilante twinjet bomber carrying a 1, 000 kilogram payload, and they better the previous world record by over four miles ( 6 km ).

** Margaret Thatcher defeats Edward Heath for the leadership of the opposition UK Conservative Party.

** Heath Miller, American football player

** Heath Robinson, British cartoonist and illustrator ( d. 1944 )

** Frank Heath and his horse Gypsy Queen leave Washington, D. C. to begin a two-year journey to visit all 48 states.

** Nicholas Heath, archbishop of York and Lord Chancellor ( d. 1578 )

** Heath Hen, Tympanuchus cupido cupido ( extinct, 1932 )

** East Wretham Heath

** Weeting Heath

** RAF Barkston Heath

** Stretton Heath

** Ted Heath

** Thomas Heath, historian and translator

** Heath Frisby landed the first ever front flip of a snowmobile, in snowmobile best trick.

** James Heath, Royalist historian ( born 1629 )

** Hampstead Heath, a park

** Hampstead Heath railway station

** Haywards Heath railway station

** Heath, many of the species in the genus Erica

** Heath, many of the species in the genus Cassiope

** Heath, either of the two species in the genus Daboecia

** Coenonympha pamphilus, a butterfly native to Europe, Asia except tropical India and Indochina, and Northern Africa known as the Small Heath

** Coenonympha tullia, a butterfly native to Europe, Asia except tropical India and Indochina, and North America known as the Large Heath