BORN ON THIS DAY

STEWART GRANGER (1913-1993). The Londonborn actor, ‘one of the greatest British stars of the 1940s’, changed his name from James Lablache Stewart when cast in king Solomon’s Mines to avoid confusion with star James Stewart.

GLORIA RICHARDSON (1922-2021). one of the first women to lead a grassroots civil rights movement in the U.S., the Cambridge movement, Richardson was one of only six women on the programme of the March on Washington, at which Martin Luther king delivered his ‘I Have a Dream’ speech.