* 1984 – Natalie Blair, Australian actress

* 1921 – The first skirmishes of the Battle of Blair Mountain occur.

* 1964 – Blair Underwood, American actor and director

* 1718 – Hugh Blair, Scottish preacher, author, and rhetorician ( d. 1800 )

* 1973 – Zach Blair, American guitarist ( Rise Against )

* 1923 – Betsy Blair, American actress ( d. 2009 )

* 1943 – Subhas Chandra Bose raises the flag of Indian independence at Port Blair.

* 2007 – Janet Blair, American actress ( b. 1921 )

Eric Arthur Blair ( 25 June 1903 – 21 January 1950 ), known by his pen name George Orwell, was an English novelist and journalist.

* Blair, Eric Arthur ( George Orwell ) ( 1903 – 1950 ) at the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography

During the 1980s and 1990s, in which Gen Xers would have been teenagers or young adults, the United Kingdom was politically marked by conservative Thatcher-era government followed by the more centrist tenures of John Major ( 1990 – 1997 ) and Tony Blair ( 1997 – 2007 ).

Kelly was married to Betsy Blair for 15 years ( 1941 – 1957 ) and they had one child, Kerry.

The Electoral success of New Labour in 1997, which would be led by two Prime Ministers with Scottish connections, Tony Blair ( who was brought up in Scotland ) from 1997 to 2007 and Gordon Brown from 2007 – 10, opened the way for constitutional change.

* 1915 – Robert Blair Mayne, British soldier ( d. 1955 )

* 1983 – Blair Redford, American actor

* 1959 – Linda Blair, American actress

* 1950 – Blair Thornton, Canadian guitarist and songwriter ( Bachman – Turner Overdrive )

* 1953 – Tony Blair, English politician, former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

* 1964 – Bonnie Blair, American speed skater

* 1950 – Puerto Rican nationalists Griselio Torresola and Oscar Collazo attempt to assassinate US President Harry S. Truman at Blair House.

* 1998 – Tony Blair becomes the first Prime Minister of the United Kingdom to address the Republic of Ireland's parliament.

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* Mike Blair – bass guitar, vocals

In recent history, Sir Winston Churchill, Sir Edward Heath, Tony Blair and Gordon Brown have not been elevated to the House of Lords.

Under the leadership of Tony Blair and Gordon Brown the British Labour Party re-branded itself as New Labour in order to promote the notion that it was less left-wing than it had been in the past.

Minnesota defender Matt Blair burst through the line to block the punt, and Terry Brown recovered the ball in the end zone for touchdown.

* A nine-month run in 1976 had a new translation by Ralph Manheim and John Willett for the New York Shakespeare Festival at the Vivian Beaumont Theatre at Lincoln Center, with Raúl Juliá as Macheath, Blair Brown as Lucy, and Ellen Greene as Jenny.

* Gordon Brown succeeds Tony Blair as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom in 2007.

In recent history, only Tony Blair and Gordon Brown have not taken up this privilege ( although Brown did issue the 2010 Dissolution Honours to similar effect ).

After the 1997 General Election, in which Labour took power, a swap was carried out by the then-incumbents of the two titles, Tony Blair being a married man with three children still living at home, while his counterpart, Gordon Brown, was unmarried at the time of taking up his post.

Although Number 10 continued to be the Prime Minister's official residence and contain the prime ministerial offices, Blair and his family actually moved into the more spacious Number 11, while Brown lived in the more meagre apartments of Number 10.

Blair and Brown's arrangement continued between Brown ( at 11 ) and Alistair Darling ( at 10 ), and is said to be likely to continue in the Cameron ministry ( David Cameron at 11 and George Osborne at 10 ).

It starred Billy Crudup as Septimus, Blair Brown as Hannah, Victor Garber as Bernard, Robert Sean Leonard as Valentine and Jennifer Dundas as Thomasina.

Recent speakers at the LSE have included Kofi Annan, Hilary Benn, Ben Bernanke, Tony Blair, Hazel Blears, Cherie Booth, Gordon Brown, David Cameron, Noam Chomsky, Bill Clinton, Alistair Darling, Niall Ferguson, Joschka Fischer, Vicente Fox, Milton Friedman, Muammar al-Gaddafi, John Lewis Gaddis, Alan Greenspan, Tenzin Gyatso, Will Hutton, Paul Krugman, Richard Lambert, Jens Lehmann, Lee Hsien Loong, John Major, Nelson Mandela, Mary McAleese, Dmitri Medvedev, John Atta Mills, Mario Monti, George Osborne, Robert Peston, Sebastián Piñera, Kevin Rudd, Jeffrey Sachs, Gerhard Schroeder, Carlos D. Mesa, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Costas Simitis, George Soros, Lord Stern, Jack Straw, Aung San Suu Kyi, Baroness Thatcher, Archbishop Desmond Tutu and Rowan Williams.

Perhaps as a result, Tony Blair chose to keep him in his job throughout his ten years as Prime Minister ; making Brown an unusually dominant figure and the longest serving Chancellor since the Reform Act of 1832.

In 1997, the then First and Second Lords, Tony Blair and Gordon Brown respectively, swapped apartments, as the Chancellor's apartment in No. 11 was bigger and thus better suited to the needs of Blair ( who had children ) than Brown who was at that stage unmarried.

It has also been used by some to describe the beliefs of the British government while Thatcher was Prime Minister between May 1979 and November 1990, and beyond into the governments of John Major, Tony Blair, Gordon Brown and David Cameron.

The Guardian accessed: 9 March 2007 </ ref > The Granita Pact between Gordon Brown and Tony Blair is said to have been made at a now defunct restaurant on Upper Street.

The incorporators were John B. Smith, Henderson Gaylord, Peter Shupp, Draper Smith, Josiah M. Eno, Daniel Gardiner, A. R. Matthews, William Jenkins, George P. Richards, S. M. Davenport, Edward Griffith, Lewis Boughton, A. F. Shupp, John J. Shonk, James McAlarney, J. P. Davenport, Eli Bittenbender, David McDonald, C. A. Kuschke, Andrew F. Levi, Querin Krothe, David Madden, John Dodson, Darius Gardiner, John Cobley, William L. Lance, Jr., J. E. Smith, R. N. Smith, John Dennis, David Levi, W. W. Lance, William W. Dietrick, James Hutchison, George Brown, Oliver Davenport, Samuel French, A. Gabriel, Theodore Renshaw, Edward G. Jones, J. L. Nesbitt, J. W. Weston, J. H. Waters, John E. Halleck, E. R. Wolfe, F. E. Spry, C. F. Derby, Anthony Duffy, D. Brown, A. G. Rickard, Thomas P. Macfarlane, William L. Lance, Lewis Gorham, John Jessop, A. S. Davenport, A. Hutchison, Brice S. Blair, John S. Geddis and C. H. Wilson, M. D.

Since 1997 the Labour governments of Tony Blair and Gordon Brown developed a programme of better regulation.

In 2008 Gibb publicly stated that he continued to get on " like a house on fire " with Blair, and claimed that the then Labour Prime Minister Gordon Brown regularly listened to the Bee Gees.

Occasional one-off specials are also shown, with Bremner impersonating Tony Blair, Gordon Brown and various other government figures.