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EVENTS

15 - 19 July - 766 men from the South African Brigade are killed during the Battle Of Delville Wood in South Africa's biggest lost in World War I

BIRTHS

12 January - Pieter Willem Botha , Former prime minister and state president of South Africa is born on the farm Telegraaf in Paul Roux district, Orange Free State

28 March - Abraham Manie Adelstein , United Kingdom 's Chief Medical Statistician , is born

DEATHS

5 June - Horatio Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener drowns when the HMS Hampshire sinks after being hit by a German mine near the Orkney Islands