Heath paid tribute to James Callaghan who died on 26 March 2005, saying that " James Callaghan was a major fixture in the political life of this country during his long and varied career.

When Hugh Gaitskell died in January 1963, Callaghan ran to succeed him but came third and the leadership contest was won by Harold Wilson.

Lady Callaghan died on 15 March 2005.

* February 22-Morley Callaghan, Canadian writer ( died 1990 )

Charles, Lord Clancarty died as an infant and was succeeded by his uncle Callaghan MacCarty, the third Earl.

* Callaghan MacCarty, 3rd Earl of Clancarty ( died 1676 )

When Mr Callaghan died, he left his entire fortune to Catherine.

O ' Callaghan died on March 5, 2004, of a heart attack at the age of 74, after collapsing during the morning mass hours at Saint Viator Catholic Church in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Later, O ' Callaghan became secretary-archivist of the State of New York, and died there in 1880.

Dr. Pat O ’ Callaghan died on 1 December 1991.

* 15 September-Pat O ' Callaghan, athlete and Olympic gold medallist ( died 1991 ).

The longest-lived Prime Minister was James Callaghan, Lord Callaghan of Cardiff, who was born on 27 March 1912 and died on 26 March 2005 at the age of 92 years 364 days, that is the day before his 93rd birthday.

The most living former Prime Ministers at any one time has been 5, which has happened several times: the first time was between Jan and Nov 1770, while Lord North was in office, and The Earl of Bute, George Grenville, the 2nd Marquess of Rockingham, Pitt the Elder, and the 3rd Duke of Grafton were still alive ( Grenville died in Nov 1770 ); the most recent was between Nov 1990 and May 1995, while John Major was in office, and Douglas-Home, Wilson, Heath, Callaghan and Thatcher were still alive ( Wilson died in May 1995 ).

The British Prime Minister widowed the shortest is James Callaghan, who died on 26 March 2005.

His wife, Audrey Callaghan, died on 15 March 2005, only 11 days before him.

A street, Admiral Callaghan Lane in Vallejo, California, is also named after him, and a monument in Lands End, San Francisco ( including part of the bridge of the USS San Francisco, where he died ), honors him and his comrades.

Callaghan is perhaps best known for ordering, despite disagreement from some of his crew, that an honorable funeral be held for an enemy pilot who died during a suicide attack on the Missouri in 1945.

* 7 January — Eugene O ' Callaghan, Bishop of Clogher 1943 – 1969 ( died 1973 ).

* Mike O ' Callaghan, 74, Governor of Nevada ( 1971 – 1979 ), died on March 5, 2004, of a heart attack after collapsing during the morning mass hours at Saint Viator Catholic Church in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Following Labour's 1979 general election defeat by Margaret Thatcher, James Callaghan remained party leader for the next 18 months before he resigned and Foot was elected Labour leader on 4 November 1980, beating Denis Healey in the second round of the leadership election ( the last leadership contest to involve only Labour MPs ).

She is said to have been the daughter of a Welsh steel worker of Irish descent, William O ' Callaghan, who had been superintendent on the Indian State railways.

* British — Ashton, Helen: Pierrot in Town ( 1913 ); Barrington, Pamela: White Pierrot ( 1932 ); Callaghan, Stella: " Pierrot and the Black Cat " ( 1921 ), Pierrot of the World ( 1923 ); Deakin, Dorothea: The Poet and the Pierrot ( 1905 ); Herring, Paul: The Pierrots on the Pier: A Holiday Entertainment ( 1914 ); Priestley, J. B .: The Good Companions ( 1929 ; plot follows fortunes of a Pierrot troupe, The Dinky Doos ; has had many adaptations, for stage, screen, TV, and radio ).

While condemning racial discrimination ( and adopting legislation to make it a legal offence ), Wilson's Home Secretary James Callaghan introduced significant new restrictions on the right of immigration to the United Kingdom.

In the third ballot on 5 April, Callaghan defeated Foot in a parliamentary vote of 176 to 137, thus becoming Wilson's successor as Prime Minister and leader of the Labour Party, and remained prime minister until May 1979, when Labour lost the general election to the Conservatives and Margaret Thatcher became Britain's first female prime minister.

Callaghan was Chancellor of the Exchequer during a turbulent period in the British economy in which he had to wrestle with a balance of payments deficit and speculative attacks on the pound sterling.

James Callaghan was born at 38 Funtington Road, Copnor, Portsmouth, England on 27 March 1912.

Laski encouraged him to stand for Parliament, although later on, he requested Callaghan several times to study and lecture at the LSE.

Whilst on leave, Callaghan was selected as a Parliamentary candidate for Cardiff South.

Callaghan introduced his next Budget on 4 May.

On 20 July, Callaghan announced an emergency ten-point programme with a six-month freeze on wage and salary increases.

Wilson then moved Roy Jenkins, the Home Secretary, to the Chancellor of the Exchequer and Callaghan became the new Home Secretary on 30 November 1967.

Barely two years after beginning his second spell as prime minister, Wilson announced his surprise resignation on 16 March 1976, and unofficially endorsed Callaghan as his successor.

On 28 March 1979, the House of Commons passed a Motion of No Confidence by one vote, 311 – 310, which forced Callaghan to call a general election that was held on 3 May.

Callaghan resigned as leader of the Labour Party on 15 October 1980, shortly after the 1980 party conference had voted for a new system of election by electoral college involving the individual members and trade unions.

* More about James Callaghan on the Downing Street website.

*' Prime Ministers in the Post-War World: James Callaghan ', lecture by Professor the Lord Morgan at Gresham College on 5 June 2007 ( with video and audio files available for download )

The high level of civil disturbance led to an exhaustive inquiry into the disturbances in Northern Ireland carried out by the distinguished English judge Lord Scarman, the then Home Secretary, James Callaghan, called on Lord Hunt to assess and advise on the policing situation.

John A. Costello was born on 20 June 1891, in Dublin, younger son of John Costello senior, a civil servant, and Rose Callaghan.

He was aged 92 years and 322 days — the greatest age attained by a British Prime Minister until surpassed by James Callaghan on 14 February 2005.

Leonard James Callaghan, Baron Callaghan of Cardiff, KG, PC ( 27 March 1912 – 26 March 2005 ), was a British Labour politician who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom ( 1976 – 79 ) and Leader of the Labour Party ( 1976 – 80 ).

* Lieutenant James Callaghan, RNVR ( 1943 – 26 July 1945 )

* Lieutenant James Callaghan, MP ( 26 July 1945 – 21 October 1964 )

* The Right Honourable The Lord Callaghan of Cardiff, KG, PC ( 5 November 1987 – 26 March 2005 )

The Labour governments of Harold Wilson and James Callaghan had been fighting for several years against inflation, which had peaked at 26. 9 % in the 12 months to August 1975, but wished to avoid large increases in unemployment.

Following the November 16 order to arrest 26 Patriote leaders on charges of sedition, including Papineau, O ' Callaghan, Brown and Ouimet, many members of the Société des Fils de la Liberté took part in the armed conflict of 1837 and the two invasion attempts of 1838.

Sean O ' Callaghan ( born 26 January 1954 ) is a former senior member of the Provisional Irish Republican Army ( IRA ).

O ' Callaghan was born on 26 January 1954 into a republican family in Tralee, County Kerry.

O ' Callaghan appeared as a Crown Prosecution witness in August 2006 during the trial of Yousef Samhan, 26 of Northolt, London, after an incident in which O ' Callaghan was bound to a chair by two young men whom he met in a gay bar in West London.

* 26 March-James Callaghan, Lord Callaghan of Cardiff, former Cardiff MP and prime minister, 92

Daniel Judson Callaghan ( July 26, 1890 – November 13, 1942 ) was a United States Navy officer who received the Medal of Honor posthumously for his actions during the Naval Battle of Guadalcanal.

Callaghan was born on July 26, 1890, in San Francisco, California, the son of businessman Charles William Callaghan and Rose Wheeler Callaghan.

* 26 March-James Callaghan, former Prime Minister ( born 1912 )

On September 26, 2006, Hevesi said he will pay the state more than $ 82, 000 for having a public employee chauffeur his wife, after his Republican challenger, Christopher Callaghan, asked the Albany County District Attorney's office to investigate.