ANNIVERSARIES

Births: 1050 Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor; 1748 Charles IV, king of Spain; 1821 Fyodor Dostoyevsky, novelist; 1885 George Patton, US military commander in Second World War; 1919 Dr Hamish Henderson, folklorist, poet and songwriter; 1920 Lord Jenkins of Hillhead, politician and historian; 1922 Kurt Vonnegut, novelist.

Deaths: 1880 Ned Kelly, Australian bushranger and bank robber; 1945 Jerome Kern, composer of musical theatre; 1976 Alexander Calder, sculptor and originator of the “mobile”; 2005 Patrick Anson, 5th Earl of Lichfield, photographer; 2016 Robert Vaughn, actor.