ANNIVERSARIES

Births: 1688: Alexander Pope, poet; 1780 Elizabeth Fry, prison reformer; 1844 Henri Rousseau, painter; 11904 Thomas ‘Fats’ Waller, jazz pianist, singer, and composer; 1916 Harold Robbins, author; 1921 Andrei Sakharov, Russian physicist; 1935 Terry Lightfoot, jazz band leader.

Deaths: 1471 King Henry VI; James Graham, Marquis of Montrose; 1929 Lord Rosebery, Liberal prime minister; 1965 Sir Geoffrey de Havilland, aircraft designer; 1983 Kenneth Clark, art historian; 1991 Rajiv Gandhi, Indian prime minister; 1992 Elizabeth David, food writer; 2000 Barbara Cartland, romantic novelist; 2000 Sir John Gielgud, actor.