ANNIVERSARIES

Births: 1483 Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio), Renaissance painter (he died on same day 37 years later); 1671 Jean-baptiste Rousseau, poet; 1773 James Mill, Scottish philosopher, father of John Stuart Mill; 1866 Butch Cassidy, train robber (with Sundance Kid); 1826 Gustave Moreau, artist; 1870 Oscar Strauss, composer; 1874 Harry Houdini, American escapologist; 1884 Walter Huston, American actor; 1890 Anthony Fokker, aircraft designer; 1907 Richard Murdoch, comic actor (Much Binding in the Marsh); 1926 Reverend Ian Paisley, first minister, Northern Ireland 2007-08; 1929 André Previn KBE, pianist, conductor and composer; 1933 Dudley Sutton, British actor and writer; 1938 Paul Daniels, British magician and TV personality; 1945 Rodney Bickerstaffe, trade unionist and pensions campaigner.