ANNIVERSARIES

Births: 1910 Dame Alicia Markova DBE, ballerina; 1913 Mary Martin, actress and singer; 1930 Matt Monro, singer; 1920 Keith Michell, actor; 1933 Lou Rawls, singer-songwriter; 1940 Richard Pryor, actor and comedian. Deaths: 1940 Mike Denness OBE, Scottish-born former England cricket captain; 1947 Samuel Courtauld, silk and rayon manufacturer; 1964 JBS Haldane, Scottish scientist; 1973 David Ben-gurion, first prime minister of Israel; 1997 Stéphane Grappelli, jazz violinist; 2007 Anton Rodgers, actor