ANNIVERSARIES

Births: 1845 Wilhelm von Röntgen, discoverer of X-rays; 1863 Sir Henry Royce, co-founder of Rolls-royce; 1894 Dashiell Hammett, writer; 1898 Gloria Swanson, film actress; 1912 Lord Callaghan of Cardiff, Labour Prime Minister 1976-79.

Deaths: 1625 King James VI and I; 1923 Sir James Dewar, physicist who invented vacuum flask; 1968: Yuri Gagarin, Russian astronaut and first man in space (plane crash); 2000 Ian Dury, pop singer, songwriter and actor; 2001 Sir Kenneth Alexander, Chancellor, Aberdeen University 1986-96; 2002 Dudley Moore, actor and musician; 2017 David Storey, British novelist