ANNIVERSARIES

Births: 1808 Charles Louis Napoleon Bonaparte (Napoleon III), French emperor; 1845 Jean Francisque Raffaelli, painter and architect; 1851 “Young” Tom Morris, golfer; 1889 Adolf Hitler, Nazi dictator; 1893 Joan Miró, Spanish artist; 1943 Alan Bold, poet, author and artist.

Deaths: 1768 Giovanni Canaletto, painter; 1883 Edouard Manet, painter; 1912 Bram Stoker, writer of Dracula; 1996 Christopher Robin Milne, immortalised by father AA Milne in his Winnie-the-pooh books; 2004 Norris Mcwhirter, athlete, founder editor, Guinness Book of Records; 2016 Victoria Wood CBE, comedienne and writer.