ANNIVERSARIES

Births: 1709 Dr Samuel Johnson, writer and lexicographer; 1861 Sir Owen Seaman, 1st Baronet, editor of Punch 1906 -1932; 1905 Greta Garbo, actress; 1920 Jack Warden, actor; 1925 Peter Sellers, actor and comedian; 11949 Dr Mo Mowlam, Secretary of State for Northern Ireland 1997-2000; 1961 James Gandolfini, actor (The Sopranos). Deaths: 1830 William Hazlitt, critic and essayist; 1945 “Blind” Willie Johnson, Blues singer and guitarist; 1949 Frank Morgan, actor (the “Wizard” in The Wizard of Oz); 1964 Sean O’casey, playwright; 1967 Sir John Cockcroft, physicist who split the atom with Ernest Walton; 1970 Jimi Hendrix, singer and guitarist.