ANNIVERSARIES

Births: 1881 Pope John XXIII; 1920 Ricardo Montalbán, actor; 1936 William Mcilvanney, Scottish writer; 1940 Percy Sledge, R&B and soul singer; 1959 Charles Kennedy, MP, leader, Lib Dems 1999-2006, 55. Deaths: 1973 Laurence Harvey, actor; 1974 U Thant, secretarygeneral of UN 1961-1971; 1974 Nick Drake, rock musician; 2005 George Best, footballer; 2010 Bernard Matthews CBE, poultry farmer; 2012 Dinah Sheridan, actor; 2016 Fidel Castro, president of Cuba 1959-2008; 2016 Ron Glass, US actor.