ANNIVERSARIES

Births: 1925 Oliver Postgate, creator of Bagpuss and other characters; 1929 Elspet Gray (Lady Rix), Inverness-born actress; 1933 Montserrat Caballé, Spanish opera singer; 1941 Bobby Moore, footballer; 1947 Tom Clancy, American novelist; 1950 David Cassidy, American actor, singer, songwriter and guitarist.

Deaths: 1684 Niccolo Amati, violin-maker; 1748 William Kent, landscape gardener and architect; 1817 Charles Messier, astronomer; 1945 Franklin D Roosevelt, US president; 1975 Josephine Baker, singer; 1981 Joe Louis, American and world heavyweight boxing champion; 1983 Desmond Bagley, novelist; 1989 Sugar Ray Robinson, welterweight and middleweight boxing champion; 1999 Boxcar Willie, country singer; 2016 Anne Jackson, actress.