Born on this day 1961 in Bridgend and brought up in Llangennech, near Llanelli.

Huw Edwards - BAFTA award winning  journalist, presenter and newsreader.

After graduating from the University of Cardiff, Edwards began his career at the radio station Swansea Sound, from where he joined the BBC in 1984  as a news trainee.  He was promoted to Parliamentary Correspondent for BBC Wales in 1986 and then Chief Political Correspondent for BBC News.  Between May 1999 and January 2003, Edwards presented the BBC Six O'Clock News  and then in 2003, he became the main presenter of the Ten O'Clock News on BBC One, which is Britain's most watched news programme.

He has also  presented various special programmes such as the Festival of Remembrance, Trooping the Colour, the State Opening of Parliament, the United States elections 2008 results and the opening and closing ceremonies of  both the 2008 Beijing Olympics and the 2012 London Olympics.  In 2011, he  presented  the BBC coverage of the Wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton. The coverage was watched by 20 million viewers at peak in the United Kingdom ]  and the team won a BAFTA Award for Best Coverage of a Live Event.

Although predominantly a news journalist, Edwards has presented documentaries on many historical subjects, including the BBC Wales historical documentary "The Story of Wales".  

Born on this day 1774 in Albermarle County, Virginia.   

Meriwether Lewis (of Welsh descent) - explorer, soldier and public administrator, best remembered as the leader of the expedition to explore Louisiana and to find a direct water route across America, to the Pacific.

Meriwether Lewis was born on August 18, 1774 near Charlottesville, Virginia.  He developed a love of exploring and hunting, growing up in the wilderness and forests of the Shenandoah Valley and became a soldier at a young age, fighting in putting down the Whiskey Rebellion of 1794. He soon became an officer,   fighting the Native Americans of the Northwest Territory. During this time he became educated  in the lifestyle of the Native Americans and learned some of their language.

Then in 1801, Lewis was appointed as an aide to President Thomas Jefferson and after the Louisiana Purchase in 1803, which was the acquisition by the United States of America from France of their claim to the territory of Louisiana. Jefferson wanted to know what resources the new land had and also if there was a direct water route across the continent, to the Pacific, so he appointed Lewis and William Clark to explore the new territory.  It took three years before , the expedition reached the Pacific, in the area of present-day Oregon and they returned not only with information about the geography, but also about its plants and animals.

In 1806, Meriwether Lewis was named the new governor of the Louisiana Territory, but in 1809, on his way to Washington D.C, he mysteriously died of gunshot wounds at a hotel .

Born this day 1966 in Ynysybwl

Garin Jenkins - former  Welsh rugby international, who currently works as a summariser on Radio Wales' sports time programme.   

Born on this day 1903 in Ogmore Vale. 

Dorothy Edwards - novelist.  

In the summer of 1802, Vice Admiral Nelson toured Wales with Lady Emma Hamilton (who was raised at Hawarden in Flintshire) and her husband Sir William, who had inherited land in Pembrokeshire.  He was welcomed with enthusiasm where ever he went.

The tour began with Nelson travelling down the Wye from Ross to Monmouth, where he visited the Naval Temple on the Kymin hill.  He also visited Milford Haven, Cyfathfa Iron Works, Tenby, Haverfordwest, Llandovery, Chepstow and Carmarthen, where the then mayor Sir William Paxton, later built Paxton's Tower on his Middleton Estate, as a memorial to Nelson .