Today’s birthdays

The Rt Rev M.E. Adie, Bishop of Guildford, 1983-94, is 88; Mr Terry Gilliam, animator, actor, writer and film director, 77; Mr Tom Conti, actor and director,

75; Mrs Billie Jean King, former tennis player; winner of 20 Wimbledon titles, 74; Lord

Henley 64; Mr George Alagiah, broadcaster, 62; Prof Christopher Bunker, Consultant Dermatologist, University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust; President, British Association of Dermatologists, 2012-14, 61; Miss Jamie Lee Curtis (Lady Haden-guest), actress, 59; Mr Stephen Hough, concert pianist and composer, 56; Mr Boris Becker, former tennis player; three times Wimbledon Men’s Singles Champion, now commentator, 50; Mr Edward Gardner, conductor; Musical Director, English National Opera, 2007-15, 43; Mr Ross Fisher, golfer, 37; and Mr Gary

Ballance, England cricketer, 28. Today is the anniversary of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in 1963. It is also the anniversary of the birth of Benjamin Britten in 1913 and of the death of C.S. Lewis in 1963.