ANNIVERSARIES

Births: 1867 Arturo Toscanini, Italian conductor; 1881 Béla Bartók, composer; 1882 Haydn Wood, composer; 1906 AJP Taylor, historian and broadcaster; 1908 Sir David Lean, film director; 1914 Denis Peploe, artist; 1915 Dorothy Squires, singer; 1932 Lord Walker of Worcester MBE, MP 1961-92, secretary of state for energy 1983-87; 1942 Aretha Franklin, US soul singer.

Deaths: 1902 Major-general Sir Hector Macdonald, crofter’s son who rose through ranks of Gordon Highlanders and became known as “Fighting Mac” for his war exploits; 1904 Frédéric Mistral, poet; 1918 Claude Debussy, composer; 2002 Kenneth Wolstenholme, football commentator.