ANNIVERSARIES

Births: 1895 Busby Berkeley, film choreographer; 1898 CS Lewis, writer; 1929 Derek Jameson, journalist; 1932 Jacques Chirac, president of France 19952007.

Deaths: 1924 Giacomo Puccini, composer; 1974 James Braddock, world heavyweight boxing champion 1935 to 1937; 1981 Natalie Wood, film star; 1986 Cary Grant, actor; 1987 Irene Handl, actress; 1991 Ralph Bellamy, actor; 2001 George Harrison, lead guitarist of The Beatles; 2004 John Drew Barrymore, actor.