ANNIVERSARIES

Births: 1740 Joseph-michel Montgolfier, co-inventor of hotair balloon; 1819 Prince Albert, Consort to Queen Victoria; 1875 John Buchan, novelist and statesman; 1884 Earl Biggers, novelist (creator of detective Charlie Chan); 1904 Christopher Isherwood, novelist; 1909 Jim David, actor (Jock Ewing in Dallas); 1910 Mother Teresa, missionary.

Deaths: 1666 Frans Hals, Dutch painter; 1930 Lon Chaney, silentscreen actor known as “the man of a thousand faces”; 1958 Ralph Vaughan Williams, composer; 1964 Naomi Jacob, novelist; 1967 Paul Muni, actor; 1974 Charles Lindbergh, aviator and inventor; 1978 Charles Boyer, French actor; 1980 Tex Avery, animator (creator of Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck); 2009 Ellie Greenwich, singer, songwriter; 2011 John Mcaleese, SAS team leader in Iranian Embassy siege; 2018 Neil Simon, playwright.