BIRTHDAYS
Pauline Collins OBE, actress, 80; Caryl Churchill, playwright, 82; Michael Connarty, Scottish Labour MP 1992-2015, 73; Fearne Cotton, TV presenter, 39; Charlie Sheen, actor, 55; Valerie Perrine, actress, 77 ANNIVERSARIES
Births: 1913 Alan Ladd, actor; 1925 Anne Jackson, actress; 1928 Gaston Thorn, president of European Commission 1981 to 1985; 1931 Albert Desalvo, the “Boston Strangler”;1932 Eileen Brennan, actress; 1933 Basil Butcher, West Indian cricketer; 1940 Sir Brian Lochore OBE, New Zealand rugby player; 1982 Sarah Burke, multi gold medalwinning Olympic skier.
Deaths: 1658 Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of England, Scotland and Ireland; 1963 Louis Macneice, poet; 1967 Woody Guthrie, folk singer; 1991 Frank Capra, writer and film director; 1994 Billy Wright, England football captain; 2007 Steve Fossett, businessman and aviator (first man to fly solo round the world in a balloon); 2007 Jane Tomlinson CBE, athlete and charity fundraiser; 2012 Sun Myung Moon, Korean religious leader; 2012 Michael Clarke Duncan, actor; 2015 Judy Carne, British actress, 76.