ANNIVERSARIES

Births: 1711 David Hume, philosopher and historian; 1812 Robert Browning, poet; 1833 Johannes Brahms, composer and pianist; 1840 Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Russian composer; 1847 Lord Rosebery, Liberal prime minister; 1896 Kitty Godfree, Wimbledon tennis champion; 1909 Edwin Land, American inventor of Polaroid lens and instant camera. Deaths: 1841 Thomas Barnes, editor of the Times; 1890 James Nasmyth, inventor of the first steam hammer; 1917 Captain Albert Ball, air ace of First World War; 2011 Severiano Ballesteros, Spanish golfer.