* Robert Jardillier ( SFIO ) – Minister of Posts, Telegraphs, and Telephones ( PTT )

* Robert E. Cox ( 1917 – 1989 ) who conducted the " Gleanings for ATMs " column in Sky and Telescope magazine for 21 years.

* 1865 – American Civil War: The Battle of Sayler's Creek – Confederate General Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia fights its last major battle while in retreat from Richmond, Virginia.

* 1909 – Robert Peary and Matthew Henson reach the North Pole.

* 1815 – Robert Volkmann, German composer ( d. 1883 )

* 1974 – Robert Kovač, Croatian footballer

* 1981 – Robert Earnshaw, Zambian-Welsh footballer

* 1893 – Robert Harron, American actor ( d. 1920 )

* 1908 – Robert Lee Scott, Jr., American pilot ( d. 2006 )

* 1921 – Robert Cliche, Canadian politician and magistrate ( d. 1978 )

* 1071 – Bari, the last Byzantine possession in southern Italy, is surrendered to Robert Guiscard.

* 1908 – Frank Robert Miller, Canadian airman and politician ( d. 1997 )

* 1916 – Robert Shaw, American conductor ( d. 1999 )

* 1955 – Robert Richardson, American cinematographer

* 1964 – Robert Bogue, American actor

* 1917 – Robert Mitchum, American actor ( d. 1997 )

* 1797 – Charles Robert Malden, English naval officer ( d. 1855 )

* 1927 – Robert Shaw, English actor ( d. 1978 )

* 1293 – Robert Winchelsey leaves England for Rome, to be consecrated as Archbishop of Canterbury.

* 1994 – Robert Doisneau, French photographer ( b. 1912 )

* 2005 – Robert Coldwell Wood, American political scientist and educator ( b. 1923 )

* 1843 – Robert Todd Lincoln, American lawyer and politician, 35th United States Secretary of War ( d. 1926 )

* 1953 – Robert Cray, American singer and guitarist

* 1678 – Robert LaSalle builds the Le Griffon, the first known ship built on the Great Lakes.

* 2002 – Robert Steinhäuser infiltrates and kills 16 at Gutenberg-Gymnasium in Erfurt, Germany before dying of a self-inflicted gunshot.

Following public demonstrations against Ter-Petrosyan's policies on Nagorno-Karabakh, the President resigned in January 1998 and was replaced by Prime Minister Robert Kocharyan, who was elected President in March 1998.

Sir Robert Peel, Bt., Prime Minister 1834 – 35, 1841 – 46

Prime Minister Sir Robert Peel passed over Disraeli when putting together his government in 1841 and Disraeli, hurt, gradually became a sharp critic of Peel's government, often deliberately adopting positions contrary to those of his nominal chief.

Three-time Prime Minister Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury

Robert James Lee " Bob " Hawke AC GCL ( born 9 December 1929 ) is a former Australian politician who served as the 23rd Prime Minister of Australia from 1983 to 1991.

During the First World War Prime Minister Robert Borden attempted to form a coalition with the opposition Liberals to broaden support for controversial conscription legislation.

2004 — Prime Minister Robert Woonton visits China ; Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao grants $ 16 million in development aid.

* 1828 – Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom ( b. 1770 )

By November the Deputy General Minister and President, William Howland, suggested that the committee's staff consultant and chairperson agree on a specific proposal and bring it back to the committee: that meant Robert L. Friedly of the Office of Interpretation and Ronald E. Osborn.

* 1894 – Sir Robert Menzies, twelfth Prime Minister of Australia ( d. 1978 )

* 1788 – Robert Peel, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom ( d. 1850 )

This necessarily limited his personal and political impact, especially when compared to his immediate predecessor Sir Robert Menzies, who was Prime Minister for a total of 18 years.

In 1921 Thomas Holt enrolled his sons at Wesley College in Melbourne, where the future Prime Minister Robert Menzies had been a star pupil.

In 1939 Holt's mentor Robert Menzies became Prime Minister after the sudden death of the incumbent Joseph Lyons and the short-term caretaker ministry of Sir Earle Page.

Prime Minister Harold Holt with US Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara at The Pentagon in July 1966.

Michael Ledeen, a consultant of National Security Adviser Robert McFarlane, requested assistance from Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres for help in the sale of arms to Iran.

The M ' Naghten Rules of 1843 were not a codification or definition of insanity but rather the responses of a panel of judges to hypothetical questions posed by Parliament in the wake of Daniel M ' Naghten's acquittal for the homicide of Edward Drummond, whom he mistook for British Prime Minister Robert Peel.

* 1943 – Robert Malval, Haitian politician, 5th Prime Minister of Haiti

In June 1937, when Lord Mount Temple, the Chairman of the Anglo-German Fellowship, asked to see the British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain after meeting Hitler in a visit arranged by Ribbentrop, Robert Vansittart, the British Foreign Office's Undersecretary wrote a memo stating that :" The P. M. Minister should certainly not see Lord Mount Temple – nor should the S of S. We really must put a stop to this eternal butting in of amateurs – and Lord Mount Temple is a particularly silly one.

* 13 October 1950 – Robert Lehr ( CDU ) succeeds Heinemann as Minister of the Interior.

* Robert Tillmanns ( CDU ) – Minister of Special Tasks

They arise from the attempted assassination of the British Prime Minister, Robert Peel, in 1843 by Daniel M ' Naghten.

Although officially denied by the Nigerian government, Nigeria is known to have also provided secret military training at the Kaduna first mechanized army division and provided other material support to Joshua Nkomo and Robert Mugabe's guerrilla forces during the Rhodesian Bush War ( Renamed Zimbabwe in 1979 ) of independence against white minority rule of Prime Minister Ian Douglas Smith which was armed and financed by the regime in South Africa.

Page remained dominant in the party until 1939 and briefly served as an interim Prime Minister between the death of Joseph Lyons and the election of Robert Menzies as his successor, but Page's refusal to serve under Menzies led to his resignation as leader.