ANNIVERSARIES

Births: 1869 Sir Edwin Lutyens, architect; 1902 Sir William Walton, composer; 1913 Jack Jones MBE, trade unionist and OAPS’ champion; 1914 Chapman Pincher, British investigative journalist; 1915 George Chisholm, jazz trombonist; 1918 Pearl Bailey, American singer; 1935 Ruby Murray, singer; 1936 Sir Richard Rodney Bennett CBE, British composer.

Deaths: 1788 Charles Wesley, evangelist and hymn writer; 1891 Georges Seurat, artist; 1912 Captain Robert Falcon Scott, explorer; 1924 Sir Charles Stanford, composer; 1957 Joyce Carey, novelist; 1970 Vera Brittain, author; 1972 Lord Rank (J Arthur Rank), industrialist and builder of film organisation; 2013 Richard Griffiths OBE, actor.