ANNIVERSARIES

Births: 1588 Thomas Hobbes, philosopher; 1648 Elihu Yale, American philanthropist; 1827 Lord Lister, pioneer of antiseptics in surgery; 1837 Algernon C Swinburne, poet; 1900 Spencer Tracy, actor; 1908 Herbert von Karajan, conductor; 1916 Gregory Peck, actor. Deaths: 1923 Earl of Carnarvon, Egyptologist; 1964 Gen Douglas Macarthur, Second World War commander in Pacific; 1975 Chiang Kai-shek, Chinese leader; 1976 Howard Hughes, multi-millionaire recluse industrialist; 1997 Allen Ginsberg, Beat Generation poet; 1998 Cozy Powell, rock drummer (car crash); 2005 Saul Bellow, novelist; 2006 Gene Pitney, singer.