Name The Year: John Carpenter, director/composer (Halloween, The Thing), born.?

Questions

Madonna has had 8 number 1 's in the UK singles chart, yet her best selling single only reached number 3. Name it?

Which polar explorer died in a plane crash, while searching for a missing Italian airship?

Known as 'England's Darling' who led a resistance against William the Conqueror, on the Isle of Ely in 1070?

Which beer was first brewed in Leuven in 1366?

Which American author wrote the million pound sellers 'The Witches of Eastwick' and 'The Poorhouse Fair'?