BIRTHDAYS
Beyoncé Knowles, singer, 39; Dawn Fraser MBE, Olympic and Commonwealth Games swimming gold medallist, 83; Bill Kenwright CBE, theatrical impresario, 75; Mark Ronson, Dj/producer, 45; Tom Watson, eight-time major-winning golfer, 71; Kevin Kennedy, actor, writer, producer 59
ANNIVERSARIES
Births: 1905 Mary Renault, novelist; 1908 Edward Dmytryk, film director; 1908 Richard Wright, African-american author; 1919 Teddy Johnson, singer (with wife Pearl Carr); 1928 Dick York, actor (Bewitched); 1932 Dinsdale Landen, actor.
Deaths: 1852 William Macgillivray, Scottish naturalist and ornithologist; 1907 Edvard Grieg, composer; 1965 Albert Schweizer, philosopher, physician, medical missionary; 1987 Bill Bowes, England Test cricketer; 1989 Georges Simenon, creator of detective Maigret; 1990 Irene Dunn, actress; 1993 Hervé Villechaize, French actor; 1997 Jeffrey Bernard, journalist; 2006 Steve Irwin, crocodile hunter; 2009 Iain Cuthbertson, Glasgow-born actor; 2009 Keith Waterhouse CBE, writer; 2014 Joan Rivers, comedienne.