BIRTHDAYS

Annabel Croft, tennis player and TV presenter, 52; Leah Bracknell, actress, 54; Anna Friel, actress, 42; Gareth Gates, singer, 34; Cheryl Ladd, actress, 67; Christine Mcvie, rock singer, 75; Frank Windsor, actor, 91; Gaby Roslin, TV presenter, 54; Sir Gareth Edwards CBE, former Wales rugby internationalist, 71

ANNIVERSARIES

Births: 100BC Julius Caesar, Roman emperor; 1730 Josiah Wedgwood, pottery designer; 1817 Henry Thoreau, author, poet and philosopher; 1854 George Eastman, inventor of first Kodak camera; 1884 Louis B Mayer, film producer; 1895 Oscar Hammerstein, songwriter and librettist; 1928 Kathy Staff, actress; 11935 Roy Barraclough MBE, actor.

Deaths: 1712 Richard Cromwell, Lord Protector 1658-59; 1850 Robert Stevenson, Edinburghborn civil engineer; 1910 Charles Rolls, co-founder of Rolls Royce (air crash); 1926 Charles Wood, composer; 1926 Gertrude Bell, traveller; 1935 Alfred Dreyfus, French artillery officer; 1973 Lon Chaney Jr, actor; 1979 Minnie Ripperton, singer; 1982 Kenneth More, actor; 1996 John Boon, publisher; 1999 Bill Owen, actor; 2009 Donald Maccormick, broadcaster; 2017 Tommy Carberry, jockey and racehorse trainer.