ANNIVERSARIES

Births: 1608 John Milton, poet; 1770 James Hogg, the “Ettrick Shepherd”; 1886 Clarence Birdseye, American inventor of the deep-freezing process; 1897 Hermione Gingold, actress; 1909 Douglas Fairbanks Jnr, actor and naval officer; 1922 Broderick Crawford, actor; 1929 John Cassavetes, actor and film director; 1942 Billy Bremner, footballer and manager.

Deaths: 1165, Malcolm IV, king of Scotland; 1641 Sir Anthony van Dyck, Flemish painter; 1964 Dame Edith Sitwell, poet; 1992 Dan Maskell, tennis commentator; 1993 Danny Blanchflower, footballer and manager; 1995 Benny Lee, comic actor and singer; 1996 Mary Leakey, British paleoanthropologist; 2012 Sir Patrick Moore, British astronomer.