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Personal data Maxwell Peter Knight 

  • He was born on September 20, 1906 in New Zealand.
  • Resident until May 1987: 60 Banks Rd, 60 Banks Rd, Panmure, Auckland, New Zealand.
  • He died in the year 1987 in New Zealand, he was 80 years old.
  • He is buried on May 28, 1987 in Purewa Cemetery and Crematorium, St. John's Rd, Meadowbank, Auckland, New Zealand.

    Fout Attention: There is a date for both cremation (May 26, 1987) and burial (May 28, 1987).

  • He is cremated on May 26, 1987 in Purewa Cemetery and Crematorium, St. John's Rd, Meadowbank, Auckland, New Zealand.

    Fout Attention: There is a date for both cremation (May 26, 1987) and burial (May 28, 1987).

  • A child of Harry Windsor Knight and Irene May Landy

Household of Maxwell Peter Knight

He is married to Violet May Dowsing.

They got married in the year 1925 at New Zealand, he was 18 years old.


Child(ren):

  1. Irene June Knight  1927-2019

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Ancestors (and descendant) of Maxwell Peter Knight

Windsor Knight
1845-????
Harriett Baker
1845-1879
Peter Thomas Landy
1840-1887
Sarah Ann Wilde
1842-1919

Maxwell Peter Knight
1906-1987

1925

Violet May Dowsing
1903-1959

Irene June Knight
1927-2019

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Historical events

Birthday September 20, 1906

  • The temperature on September 20, 1906 was between 9.8 °C and 15.1 °C and averaged 12.4 °C. There was 1.1 mm of rain. There was 0.1 hours of sunshine (1%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. Source: KNMI
  • Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
  • In The Netherlands , there was from August 17, 1905 to February 11, 1908 the cabinet De Meester, with Mr. Th. de Meester (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1906: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 5.5 million citizens.
    • March 31 » The Intercollegiate Athletic Association of the United States (later the National Collegiate Athletic Association) is established to set rules for college sports in the United States.
    • April 7 » Mount Vesuvius erupts and devastates Naples.
    • June 7 » Cunard Line's RMSLusitania is launched from the John Brown Shipyard, Glasgow (Clydebank), Scotland.
    • September 18 » The 1906 Hong Kong typhoon kills an estimated 10,000 people.
    • November 9 » Theodore Roosevelt is the first sitting President of the United States to make an official trip outside the country. He did so to inspect progress on the Panama Canal.
    • December 31 » Mozaffar ad-Din Shah Qajar signs the Persian Constitution of 1906.

Day of burial May 28, 1987

  • The temperature on May 28, 1987 was between 8.1 °C and 13.3 °C and averaged 10.2 °C. There was 0.5 mm of rain during 1.2 hours. There was 2.1 hours of sunshine (13%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. Source: KNMI
  • Koningin Beatrix (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from April 30, 1980 till April 30, 2013 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
  • In The Netherlands , there was from Tuesday, November 4, 1986 to Tuesday, November 7, 1989 the cabinet Lubbers II, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1987: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 14.6 million citizens.
    • April 19 » The Simpsons first appear as a series of shorts on The Tracey Ullman Show, first starting with Good Night.
    • May 3 » A crash by Bobby Allison at the Talladega Superspeedway, Alabama fencing at the start-finish line would lead NASCAR to develop the restrictor plate for the following season both at Daytona International Speedway and Talladega.
    • May 8 » The SAS kills eight Provisional Irish Republican Army volunteers and a civilian during an ambush in Loughgall, Northern Ireland.
    • June 19 » Basque separatist group ETA commits one of its most violent attacks, in which a bomb is set off in a supermarket, Hipercor, killing 21 and injuring 45.
    • August 4 » The Federal Communications Commission rescinds the Fairness Doctrine which had required radio and television stations to present controversial issues "fairly".
    • November 18 » King's Cross fire: In London, 31 people die in a fire at the city's busiest underground station, King's Cross St Pancras.

Day of cremation May 26, 1987

  • The temperature on May 26, 1987 was between 8.5 °C and 21.3 °C and averaged 15.8 °C. There was 14.3 hours of sunshine (88%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northeast. Source: KNMI
  • Koningin Beatrix (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from April 30, 1980 till April 30, 2013 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
  • In The Netherlands , there was from Tuesday, November 4, 1986 to Tuesday, November 7, 1989 the cabinet Lubbers II, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1987: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 14.6 million citizens.
    • May 11 » Klaus Barbie goes on trial in Lyon for war crimes committed during World War II.
    • May 17 » Iran–Iraq War: An Iraqi Dassault Mirage F1 fighter jet fires two missiles into the U.S. Navy warship USSStark, killing 37 and injuring 21 of her crew.
    • June 19 » Basque separatist group ETA commits one of its most violent attacks, in which a bomb is set off in a supermarket, Hipercor, killing 21 and injuring 45.
    • September 3 » In a coup d'état in Burundi, President Jean-Baptiste Bagaza is deposed by Major Pierre Buyoya.
    • October 11 » The AIDS Memorial Quilt is first displayed during the Second National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights.
    • November 25 » Typhoon Nina pummels the Philippines with category 5 winds of 165mph and a surge that destroys entire villages. At least 1,036 deaths are attributed to the storm.


Same birth/death day

Source: Wikipedia

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  • 1902 » Stevie Smith, English author and poet († 1971)
  • 1906 » Jean Dréville, French actor, director, producer, and screenwriter († 1997)
  • 1906 » Vera Faddeeva, Russian mathematician († 1983)
  • 1911 » Shriram Sharma, Indian philosopher and activist († 1991)
  • 1913 » Sidney Dillon Ripley, American ornithologist and academic († 2001)

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