BIRTHDAYS
Cherie Blair CBE, QC, 66; Julio Iglesias, singer, 77; Bruce Springsteen, US rock singer, 71; Nicholas Witchell, British broadcaster, 67; Anthony Mackie, actor, 42; Yvette Fielding, broadcaster, producer and actress, 52
ANNIVERSARIES
Births: 1920 Mickey Rooney, US film actor; 1926 John Coltrane, jazz saxophonist; 1929 Wally Whyton, musician; 1930 Ray Charles, singer; 1936 Toby Balding OBE, racehorse trainer; 1938 Romy Schneider, actress; 1943 Tony Gubba, broadcaster. Deaths: 1939 Sigmund Freud, founder of psychoanalysis; 1962 Patrick Hamilton, playwright and novelist; 1974 Robbie Mcintosh, Dundee-born drummer (Average White Band); 1987 Bob Fosse, film director; 1994 Robert Bloch, writer (Psycho); 2010 Catherine Walker, French fashion designer