ANNIVERSARIES

Births: 1856 Lyman Frank Baum, American journalist and playwright (The Wonderful Wizard of Oz); 1859 Pierre Curie, scientist; 1892 Jimmy Wilde, British flyweight boxing champion known as the “Mighty Atom”; 1905 Joseph Cotten, US actor; 1909 James Mason, actor; 1914 Tenzing Norgay, mountaineer; 1926 Anthony Shaffer and Sir Peter Shaffer CBE, British playwrights.

Deaths: 1833 Edmund Kean, actor;1895 Joseph Whitaker, publisher who founded Whitaker’s Almanack in 1869; 1967 Edward Hopper, artist; 1987 Rita Hayworth, American film actress; 2001 Bobby Murdoch, Lisbon Lion footballer; 2008 Tommy Burns, football player and manager; 2012 John Murray, 11th Duke of Atholl.