On this DAY STAR BIRTHDAYS

1603: Elizabeth I died aged 69, after nearly 45 years as queen.

1834: Artist and poet William Morris was born in London.

1877: The University Boat Race between Oxford and Cambridge ended in a dead heat. On the same date in 1951, the race was called off when the Oxford boat sank. It was rerun two days later, when Cambridge won.

1887: Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle, US silent film comedian, was born. 1944: The breakout from prisoner of war camp Stalag Luft III by 76 inmates began. It inspired the film The Great Escape. 1946: Alistair Cooke read his first Letter From America on BBC Radio.

1956: In the Grand National, the Queen Mother’s horse Devon Loch, ridden by Dick Francis, collapsed after clearing the final fence in first place.

1965: David Steel, above, won Roxburgh, Selkirk and Peebles for the Liberals to become Britain’s youngest MP at the age of 26.

1976: President Isabel Peron of Argentina was deposed in a bloodless military coup.

1989: The Exxon Valdez tanker ran aground on a reef in Prince William Sound off the Alaskan coast.

2020: Authorities arrested a Russian tourist reportedly attempting to smuggle a drugged orangutan out of the Indonesian resort island of Bali.

David Irving, military historian, 82; Patrick Malahide, actor, 75; Archie Gemmill, coach and former footballer, 73; Lord Sugar, above, businessman, 73; Nick Lowe, musician, 71; Tommy Hilfiger, fashion designer, 69; Kelly LeBrock, actress, 60; Lara Flynn Boyle, actress, 50; Alyson Hannigan, actress, 46; Jessica Chastain, actress, 43; Lake Bell, actress, 41.