ANNIVERSARIES

Births: 1831 David Hughes, inventor of the teleprinter and the microphone; 1891 Richard Tauber, composer of operettas; 1905 Herbert Ernest Bates, novelist; 1905 Henry Fonda, US actor; 1910 Wilf Mannion, footballer; 1912 Studs Terkel, US radio broadcaster and writer; 1913 Woodrow (“Woody”) Herman, jazz bandleader and clarinettist; 1916 Bernard Braden, broadcaster; 1919 Liberace, pianist and entertainer.

Deaths: 1703 Charles Perrault, writer of fairy tales; 1990

Jim Henson, creator of The Muppets; 1990 Sammy Davis Jr, entertainer; 2013 Paul Shane, British actor (Ted Bovis in Hi-de-hi!).