Birthdays

Jean Baptiste Moliere, French dramatist (1622-73); Mary MacKillop, Australian nun (1842-1909); Abdulaziz bin Abdul Rahman Al Saud, first king of Saudi Arabia (1875-1953); George Lowe, NZ mountaineer (1924-2013); Gamal Abdel Nasser, Egyptian leader (1918-70); Martin Luther King Jr, US civil rights leader (1929-68); Sir David Gascoigne, NZ lawyer (1940-); James Nesbitt, UK actor (1965-); Mary Pierce, French tennis player (1975-).