ANNIVERSARIES

Births: 1157 King Richard I (the Lionheart); 1886 Siegfried Sassoon, war poet, novelist and critic; 1925 Peter Sellers, comedian and actor; 1929 Roger Byrne, Manchester United captain who died in Munich air disaster; 1932 Patsy Cline, country music singer; 1934 Sir Peter Maxwell Davies CBE, composer, Master of the Queen’s Music.

Deaths: 1784 Ann Lee, founder of American Shakers sect; 1831 John Aitken, Scottish music publisher; 1970 Percy Spencer, inventor of the microwave oven; 1985 John Franklin Enders, scientist and Nobel laureate (“The Father of Modern Vaccines”; 2017 Don Williams, American singer.