ANNIVERSARIES

Births: 1888 Will Hay, comic; 1896 Ira Gershwin, songwriter; 1900 Agnes Moorhead, actress; 1920 Dave Brubeck, jazz pianist and composer; 1920 Peter Dimmock CBE, TV executive and sports broadcaster – first host of Grandstand; 1948 Linda Creed, singer-songwriter.

Deaths: 1799 Joseph Black, Scottish chemist who discovered carbon; 1882 Anthony Trollope, novelist; 1933 Don Ameche, actor; 1988 Roy Orbison, singer; 2016 Peter Vaughan, British actor; 2018 Pete Shelley, British singer/guitarist (Buzzcocks).