THURSDAY MAY 18 Deaths: Elizabeth Montgomery, star of Bewitched, 1995. FRIDAY MAY 19 Deaths: Anne Boleyn, wife of Henry VIII, 1536; Nanthaniel Hawthorne, author of The Scarlet Letter novelist, 1864; William Gladstone, British Prime Minister, 1898; TE Law

THURSDAY MAY 18

Deaths: Elizabeth Montgomery, star of Bewitched, 1995.

FRIDAY MAY 19

Deaths: Anne Boleyn, wife of Henry VIII, 1536; Nanthaniel Hawthorne, author of The Scarlet Letter novelist, 1864; William Gladstone, British Prime Minister, 1898; TE Lawrence, otherwise Lawrence of Arabia, 1935; Ogden Nash, poet, 1971; Sir John Betjeman, Poet Laureate, 1984; Jackie Kennedy Onassis, wife of John F Kennedy, 1994.

SATURDAY MAY 20

Deaths: Jon Pertwee, ex-Dr Who, 1996.

SUNDAY MAY 21

Deaths: Lord Kenneth Clark, historian and creator of Civilisation, 1983; Rajiv Gandhi, Prime Minister of India, 1991; Dame Barbara Cartland, romantic novelist, 2000; Sir John Gielgud, actor, 2000.

MONDAY MAY 22

Deaths: Cecil Day Lewis, Poet Laureate, 1972; Dame Margaret Rutherford, actress, 1972; Max Wall, comedian, 1990.

TUESDAY MAY 23

Deaths: Henrik Ibsen, playwright of A Doll's House, 1906; John D Rockefeller, tycoon, 1937.

WEDNESDAY MAY 24

Deaths: Duke Ellington, jazz musician, 1974; Harold Wilson, Prime Minister, 1995.