Today’s birthdays

Lord Willoughby de Broke is 79; Mr Martin Adamson, Chairman, Associated British Foods, 2002-09, 78; Prof Sir Ian Kennedy, Chairman, Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority, 2009-16, 76; Mr Peter Luff, Director-general, Royal Commonwealth Society, 1997-2001, 71; Prof Duncan Haldane, joint winner, 2016 Nobel Phyisics Prize, 66; Mr Kepler Wessels, former South Africa cricket captain, now commentator, 60; Miss Melissa Leo, actress, 57; Dr Dmitri Medvedev, Prime Minister of Russia, 52; and Mr Grant Shapps, MP, 49.

Today is the anniversary of the death of the Duke of Wellington in 1852.