Today we mark the birthdays of Robert Burns 1759, Somerset Maugham 1874 and Virginia Woolf 1882. Well, I don't, because I find them both utterly incomprehensible. I tried, but I kept saying "Just go to the bloody Lighthouse and stop angsting about it..."
In 1860 was born Charles Curtis, who was US Vice President in 1929-33. No, I've not heard of him, either.
1915 saw the birth of Ewan MacColl, writer of Dirty Old Town, and, of course, father of the late, great Kirsty.
In 1928 was born Eduard Shevardnadze, Soviet Foreign Minister during Glasnost and Perestroika. Didn't he have a famous doctrine - wasn't it the Sinatra Doctrine - I'll Do It My Way.
Gary Tibbs was born on this day in 1958. Ooh, ooh, ooh, one of the wonderful Ants.
1939, Angela Thorne, the likeable-but-dim Marjory from To the Manor born. She also played Maggie in 'Anyone For Denis' And, ooh, I've just discovered she is the mother of the rather scrumptious but irredeemably posh Rupert and Laurence Penry-Jones.
David Ginola was born in 1967.
