ANNIVERSARIES

Births: 1810 PT Barnum, circus showman; 1820 William John Macquorn Rankine, Scottish engineer and physicist; 1853 Cecil Rhodes, British businessman, diamond mining magnate, and politician in South Africa; 1996 Dolly the sheep, Edinburgh- born, first clone.

Deaths: 1826 Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles, British statesman and founder of city of Singapore; 1974 Georgette Heyer, novelist; 1998 Roy Rogers, Hollywood cowboy star; 2007 George Melly, jazz and blues singer