ANNIVERSARIES

Births: 1648 Grinling Gibbons, woodcarver and sculptor; 1821 Linus Yale, American inventor of the cylindrical lock; 1880 Sir William Russell Flint, artist; 1915 Muddy Waters, blues singer; ; 1928 Jimmy Logan, Scottish entertainer and actor; 1928 Maya Angelou, author, poet, actress, singer, civil rights activist; 1957 Graeme Kelling, rock guitarist (Deacon Blue).

Deaths: 1406 King Robert III of Scotland; 1617 John Napier of Merchiston, Scotland’s greatest mathematician and inventor of logarithms; 1929 Karl Benz, pioneer of internal combustion engines; 1931 André Michelin, developer of mass-production of rubber tyres; 1968 Martin Luther King, American civil rights leader (assassinated); 1979 Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, Pakistan president (executed); 1983 Gloria Swanson, actress; 1995 Kenny Everett, DJ and comedian; 2014 Margo Macdonald, MSP, MP 1973-74 and broadcaster2018 Ray Wilkins MBE, English footballer, coach and commentator.