ANNIVERSARIES

Births: 1573 Inigo Jones, architect; 1606 Rembrandt van Rijn, artist; 1858 Emmeline Pankhurst, suffragette; 1865 Lord Northcliffe, newspaper proprietor and pioneer of mass circulation journalism; 1919 Iris Murdoch, author; 1929 Larry Lamb, newspaper editor.

Deaths: 1767 Michael Bruce, Scottish poet; 1883 Charles Sherwood Stratton, aka General Tom Thumb, 40in tall; 1987 Alfie Bass, actor; 1990 Margaret Lockwood, actress; 1997 Gianni Versace, fashion designer; 2011 Googie Withers, actress; 2012 Celeste Holm, actress.