BIRTHDAYS
John Lloyd, tennis player, 66; Peter Ebdon, English snooker player, 50; Lady Antonia Fraser DBE, writer, broadcaster, historian, 88; Jeanette Winterson CBE, British writer, 601; Aaron Paul, actor, 41; Denise Lewis OBE, Olympic gold medal-winning athlete, 48; Glen Matlock, musician (Sex Pistols), 64
ANNIVERSARIES
Births: 1877 Charles Rolls, motor manufacturer and aviation pioneer; 1882 Sam Goldwyn, US film producer; 1899 CS Forester, novelist; 1926 Pat Coombs, actress; 1929 Ira Levin, author, dramatist and songwriter; .
Deaths: 1879 Rowland Hill, teacher and inventor who introduced the postage stamp; 1964 Gracie Allen, comedienne; 1965 Le Corbusier (CharlesEdouard Jeanneret), architect; 1967 Brian Epstein, Beatles manager; 1969 Dame Ivy Compton-burnett, novelist; 1975 Haile Selassie, emperor of Ethiopia; 1979 Earl Mountbatten; 1984 Bernard Youens, actor (Coronation Street); 1995 Carl Giles, cartoonist; 1995 Dick Bentley, comedian and actor; 2014 Sandy Wilson, British composer (The Boy Friend), lyric writer and playwright.