BIRTHDAYS
Stewart Copeland, rock musician (the Police), 66; Phoebe Cates, actress, 55; Michael Flatley, Irish step dancer and dance impresario, 60; Miguel Indurain, five-times Tour de France winner, 54; Sir James Loy Macmillan CBE, Scottish composer, 59; Will Ferrell, actor, 51; Gareth Bale, Welsh international footballer, 29; Margaret Court MBE, former Wimbledon tennis champion, 76
ANNIVERSARIES
Births: 1723 Sir Joshua Reynolds, portrait painter and first president of the Royal Academy; 1872 Roald Amundsen, explorer; 1901 Fritz Mahler, composer; 1911 Ginger Rogers, dancer and actress; 1907 Barbara Stanwyck, actress; 1941 Desmond Dekker, Reggae singer-songwriter.
Deaths: 1309 James Stewart, High Steward of Scotland; 1557 Anne of Cleves, fourth wife of King Henry VIII; 1764 Ivan VI, Russian Tsar; 1965 Joseph Hilaire Belloc, writer and historian; 1981 Harry Chapin, singer-songwriter; 1989 Herbert von Karajan, conductor; 1995 Professor Sir Stephen Spender, poet and critic; 2012 Jon Lord, musician (Deep Purple, Whitesnake, the Flower Pot Men); 2017 George Romero, film director.