BORN ON THIS DAY
- 1988 – Angelique Kerber, the German tennis player
- 1964 – Richard Dunwoody, the jockey
- 1962 – Peter Beardsley, the English footballer
- 1955 – Kevin Costner, the actor and producer
- 1945 – Rocco Forte, the businessman and philanthropist
- 1933 – David Bellamy, the botanist and TV presenter
- 1911 – Danny Kaye, the American actor, singer and dancer
- 1904 – Cary Grant, the actor
- 1892 – Oliver Hardy, the American actor and one half of ‘Laurel & Hardy’
- 1882 – AA Milne, the English author famous for creating ‘Winnie the Pooh’
DIED ON THIS DAY
- 2009 – Tony Hart, the painter and TV presenter
- 1936 – Rudyard Kipling, the poet
