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100 years ago: September 1921

• Explorer Ernest Shackleton set out on the ship Quest on the Shackleton-Rowett Expedition, his last Antarctic expedition

• Welsh singer and comedian Harry Secombe was born.

80 years ago: September 1941

• Two great American singers, legendary soul singer Otis Redding, and Mamas and the Papas singer ‘Mama’ Cass Elliot, were born.

• Linda McCartney – photographer, musician, animal rights campaigner and vegetarian

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