BIRTHDAYS
Gloria Gaynor, singer, 77; Peter Gill, theatre director, 81; Toby Jones, actor, 54; Julie Kavner, US actress (Marge Simpson), 70; Raymond Stewart, Scottish footballer, 61; Robert Snodgrass, Scottish footballer, 33; Oliver Hudson, actor, 44; Aleksandra Wozniak, tennis player, 33
ANNIVERSARIES
Births: 1533 Queen Elizabeth I of England; 1735 Thomas Coutts, banker; 1887 Dame Edith Sitwell, poet and writer; 1893 Leslie Hore-belisha, politician, inventor of Belisha beacon; 1917 Group Captain Leonard Cheshire, VC, OM), founder of Cheshire Homes; 1923 Peter Lawford, actor; 1925 Laura Ashley, fashion designer; 1936 Buddy Holly, musician; 1959 Kevin Curran, Zimbabwean cricketer. Deaths: 1362 Joan of the Tower (born in Tower of London), queen consort to David II of Scotland; 1910 William Holman Hunt, a founder of the preRaphaelite Brotherhood of artists; 1978 Keith Moon, drummer (The Who); 1990 AJP Taylor, historian, journalist .