BORN ON THIS DAY

DAvID COLEMAN (19262013). The host of the BBC’s Grandstand and A Question Of Sport (right) covered 11 Olympic Games and six football World Cups. He was relaxed about his over-thetop Spitting Image puppet, but didn’t like being lampooned in Private Eye’s Colemanballs, which was inspired by his gaffes, including: ‘There is Brendan Foster, by himself with 20,000 people,’ and, ‘He’s 31 this year — last year he was 30.’ ANITA LOOS (1889-1981). The U.S. author and screenwriter wrote the novel Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, which was turned into a Marilyn Monroe musical in 1953. Loos, who had brown hair, followed up her book with But Gentlemen Marry Brunettes.