ANNIVERSARIES

Births: 1828 Josephine Butler, social reformer; 1842 Sir Arthur Seymour Sullivan, composer; 1864 Vesta Tilley, music hall star; 1907 Dame Daphne du Maurier, novelist; 1914 Joe Louis, ‘the Brown Bomber’, world heavyweight champion 193749; 1922 Bea Arthur, US actress; 1937 Trevor Baylis CBE, British inventor (wind-up radio);1946 Tim Pigott-smith, British actor.

Deaths: 1884 Cyrus Hall Mccormick, inventor of first patented reaping machine; 1961 Gary Cooper, American film actor; 1982 Ralph Reader, creator of Gang Shows; 1997 Laurie Lee MBE, author and poet; 2018 Beth Chatto OBE, British author and garden designer; 2018 Margot Kidder, actress; 2018 Gareth Williams, rugby player.