Today’s birthdays

Sir Jack Petchey, Founder, Jack Petchey Foundation, is 92; Mr Henry Wendt, Chairman, Smithkline Beecham, 1989-94, 84; Air Chief Marshal Sir David Parry-evans, Chief Commander, St John Ambulance, 1992-98, 82; Lord Laming, Convenor of the Crossbench Peers, 2011-15, 81; Sir Henry Brooke, a former Lord Justice of Appeal, 81; Sir Robin Auld, a former Lord Justice of Appeal, 80; Prof Dame Carole Jordan, Professor of Physics, University of Oxford, 1996-2008, 76; Mr Justice Collins 75; Prof Sir Adrian Webb, Vice-chancellor of the University of Glamorgan, 1993-2004, 74; Lord Stevenson of Coddenham, former company chairman, 72; Mr Ilie Nastase, former tennis player, 71; Mr Adrian Noble, Artistic Director, Royal Shakespeare Company, 1991-2003, 67; Mr Eoin Mclennan-murray, President, Prison Governors’ Association, 2010-16, 64; the Countess of Verulam, Lord-lieutenant for Hertfordshire, 63; Prof Nick Hardwick, Chairman, Parole Board; Chief Inspector of Prisons, 2010-16, 60; Mr Mark Wigglesworth, conductor; Musical Director, ENO, 2015-16, 53; Dame Evelyn Glennie, percussionist, 52; Ms Nicola Sturgeon, MSP, Leader of the Scottish National Party and First Minister of Scotland, 47; Mr David Lammy, MP, 45; Mr Benedict Cumberbatch, actor, 41; and Mr Richard Whitehead, athlete; Paralympic gold medallist, Rio 2016 and London 2012, 41. Today is the anniversary of the sinking of Henry VIII’S flagship, Mary Rose, at Portsmouth, in 1545.