ANNIVERSARIES

Births: 1806 Isambard Kingdom Brunel, railway and marine engineer; 1821 Charles Baudelaire, poet; 1893 Sir Victor Gollancz, publisher; 1898 Paul Robeson, American singer and actor; 1906 Hugh Gaitskell, leader of Labour Party; 1926 Hugh Hefner, Playboy publisher; 1932 Carl Perkins, singer and guitarist; 1957 Severiano Ballesteros, Spanish golfer.

Deaths: 1483 King Edward IV; 1553 François Rabelais, writer; 1626 Francis Bacon, philosopher and statesman; 1882 Dante Gabriel Rossetti, poet and painter; 1959 Frank Lloyd Wright, architect; 1961 Ex-king Zog of Albania; 1984 Sir Basil Blackwell, bookseller and publisher; 1988 Brook Benton, singer; 2011 Sidney Lumet, American film director.