ANNIVERSARIES

Births: 1775 JMW Turner, painter; 1858 Max Planck, German scientist; 1891 Sergei Prokofiev, composer; 1893 Billy Smart, circus proprietor; 1899 Vladimir Nabokov, Russian novelist; 1928 Shirley Temple Black, child film star and diplomat; 1936 Roy Orbison, singer and composer.

Deaths: 1616 William Shakespeare, playwright; 1850 William Wordsworth, poet; 1915 Rupert Brooke, poet; 1983 Larry “Buster” Crabbe, Olympic champion swimmer and actor; 1997 Denis Compton, cricketer, footballer, commentator; 2005 Sir John Mills, actor, producer and director; 2007 Boris Yeltsin, president, Russian Federation 1991-9.