Today’s birthdays

84; Mr Kenny Rogers, country and western singer and songwriter, 79; Mr Perry Christie, former Prime Minister of the Bahamas, 74; Sir David Durie, Governor and C-in-c, Gibraltar, 2000-03, 73; the Earl of

Normanton 72; Prof Andrew

Goudie, Master of St Cross College, Oxford, 2003-11, 72; Mr Justice Holman 70; Baroness Northover 63; Lt Gen Sir David Capewell, RM, Chief of Joint Operations, 2011-14, 58; Miss Anne Hobbs, former tennis

player, 58; Mr Gary Wolstenholme, golfer, 57; and Mr Usain Bolt, former sprinter; eight-time Olympic gold medallist and 11-time World Champion, 31. Today is the anniversary of the murder of Trotsky in 1940. King Mohammed VI of Morocco is 54. Dame Janet Baker, mezzosoprano,