ANNIVERSARIES

Births: 1819 George Eliot (Mary Anne Evans), novelist;1890 Charles de Gaulle, French general-statesman; 1913 Lord (Benjamin) Britten, composer; 1924 Geraldine Page, actress; 1930 Sir Peter Hall CBE, director; 1932 Robert Vaughn, actor. Deaths:1963 John F Kennedy, US president; 1963 CS Lewis, writer; 1963 Aldous Huxley, author; 1980 Mae West, film actress; 1997 Michael Hutchence, musician; 2000 Emil Zatopek, Olympic gold medallist athlete; 2007 Verity Lambert, first producer of Doctor Who.