Golf Central

On this day in 1990, Nick Faldo gave a golfing masterclass to the world, winning The Open Championship by five shots from Payne Stewart and Mark McNulty at The Old Course in St Andrews.

His second Open Championship and fourth Major title, Faldo didn't land in sand until the fourth hole of the final round and only three putted once, when he elected to play up short on the 17th and putted off the green. Six years earlier at exactly the same course, Seve Ballesteros won his second British Open, beating Bernhard Langer and Tom Watson by two strokes.

Meanwhile, away from the links, Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar escaped from prison – well, when we say prison, we mean five-star luxury accommodation. On this day in 1992, OJ Simpson pleaded innocent to the murder of his ex-wife Nicole and Ronald Goldman in 1994, while in 2005 Brazilian electrician Jean Charles de Menezes was shot seven times in the head by police, who mistakenly identified him as a potential terrorist.

So it's som owie nek mein aryouk yrinyu! as they say in Cambodia to European Tour member Carl Suneson (41), American artist Edward Hopper (85), funk legend George Clinton (67), dishevelled actor and former InGolfWetrust schoolmate Rhys Ifans (40) and ultra-camp singer Rufus Wainwright (34).