ANNIVERSARIES

Births: 1707 Henry Fielding, novelist (Tom Jones); 1870 Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov (Lenin), Russian revolutionary leader; 1891 Sergei Prokofiev, composer; 1899 Vladimir Nabokov, novelist and poet; 1904 Robert Oppenheimer, physicist; 1916 Lord (Yehudi) Menuhin, violinist and conductor; 1925 George Cole OBE, British actor; 1936 Glen Campbell, US singer.

Deaths: 1778 James Hargreaves, inventor of spinning jenny; 1908 Sir Henry Campbellbannerman, Liberal Prime Minister; 1933 Sir Frederick Henry Royce, car manufacturer; 1994 Richard Nixon, 37th US president; 2005 Sir Eduardo Paolozzi, sculptor