BORN ON THIS DAY

JEANNE MOREAU (19282017). The Bafta- winning screen star (pictured) is best known for 1962 film Jules Et Jim. Described as the most iconic Gallic actress of her generation, she was the daughter of a Tiller Girl dancer from Oldham, and a french restaurateur. Of her heritage, she said: ‘I’m pleased I can be outrageous as only the English can be.’ WALTER FREDERICK MORRISON (19202010). The American invented the ‘Pluto Platter’ and sold the rights on this day in 1957, his 37th birthday. renamed the frisbee a year later, it went on to sell 200 million during his lifetime, though he thought its new name was ‘a horror’.