ANNIVERSARIES

Births: 1629 Christian Huygens, Dutch astronomer who invented the pendulum; 1868 Peter Behrens, architect; 1904 Sir John Gielgud, actor and director; 1907 Francois (Papa Doc) Duvalier, Haitian dictator.

Deaths: 1575 Earl of Bothwell, third husband of Mary Queen of Scots; 1759 George Frederick Handel, composer; 1779 John Maccodrum, satirical Gaelic poet; 1917 Doctor Ludovik Zamenhof, creator of Esperanto; 1951 Ernest Bevin, Labour minister; 1986 Simone de Beauvoir, existentialist writer.