Today’s birthdays

Mr James Ivory, film director, is 89; Mr John Turner, QC, former Prime Minister of Canada, 88; Mr

Derek Barron, Chairman and Chief Executive, Ford Motor Company, 1986-91, 88; the Rt Rev

Michael Baughen, Bishop of Chester, 1982-96, 87; Miss

Virginia Mckenna, actress, author and wildlife campaigner, 86; Mr David Coleridge, former Chairman, Lloyd’s of London, 85; the Very Rev John A. Simpson, Dean Emeritus of Canterbury, 84; Sir Tom Jones, singer, 77; Mr Ronald Pickup, actor, 77; Mr Michael Pennington, actor and

writer, 74; Dame Annette Brooke, a former Liberal Democrat MP, 70; Lord Lucas of

Crudwell 66; Miss Lucy de

Groot, Chief Executive, CSV, 2011-14, 66; Mr Liam Neeson, actor, 65; Lord Boyd of Duncansby, QC, a Senator of the College of Justice in Scotland; Lord Advocate, Scottish Executive, 2000-06; 64; Mr Roberto Alagna, tenor; 54; Mr Damien Hirst, artist, 52; and Mr Bear Grylls, Chief Scout; television presenter and author, 43.