ANNIVERSARIES

Births: 1686 Gabriel Fahrenheit, physicist who invented mercury thermometer; 1743 Jean Paul Marat, revolutionary; 1819 Queen Victoria; 1836 Joseph Rowntree, cocoa manufacturer and philanthropist.

Deaths: 1153 David I, first feudal King of Scotland; 1543 Nicolaus Copernicus, founder of modern astronomy; 1974 Duke Ellington, jazz musician; 1994 Forsyth Hardy, co-founder Edinburgh Film Festival; 1995 Lord Wilson of Rievaulx, former prime minister; 2013 W Garth Morrison CBE, chief scout 1988-96, LordLieutenant for East Lothian; 2016 Burt Kwouk, actor.