ANNIVERSARIES

Births: 1316 King Robert II, first of the House of Stewart; 1900 Kurth Weill, German composer; 1917 John Gardner CBE, British composer; 1923 Cardinal Basil Hume, Archbishop of Westminster; 1940 Billy Mcneill, Scottish footballer and manager; 1942 Lou Reed, American rock musician (The Velvet Underground).

Deaths: 1791 John Wesley, founder of Methodism; 1930 DH Lawrence, novelist; 1939 Howard Carter, Egyptologist who discovered tomb of Tutankhamun in 1922; 1999 Dusty Springfield, singer.