Birthdays

Today: Miss Leontyne Price, soprano, is 91; Ms Fleur Adcock, poet, 84; Miss Olwyn Bowey, painter, 82; Sir Christopher Rose, Chief Surveillance Commissioner, 2006-15, 81; Mr Robert Alston, former diplomat, 80; Lord Glendonbrook, Chairman, British Midland plc, 1978-2009, 76; Mr Nicholas Owen, Presenter, BBC News, 71; Maj Gen M.L. Wildman, Chairman, Combined Cadet Force Association, 2004-11, 71; Mr Mark Spitz, former swimmer; seventimes Olympic gold medallist, Munich 1972, 68; Mr Guy de W. Waller, Headmaster, Cranleigh School, 1997-2014, 68; Baroness Rebuck, Chairman and Chief Executive, Random House Group Ltd, 1991-2013, 66; Mr Greg Norman, golfer; Open Champion 1986 and 1993, 63; the Marquess of Headfort 59; and the Earl of Limerick 55. Tomorrow: Baroness Sharples will be 95; the Earl of Rosebery 89; Mr Dennis Skinner, MP, 86; Dame Mary Quant, fashion designer, 84; Mr Bev Congdon, former New Zealand cricketer, 80; Mr Bryan Gould, former Labour MP, 79; Gen Sir Jeremy Mackenzie, Governor, Royal Hospital Chelsea, 1999-2006, 77; Dame Elisabeth Hoodless, Executive Director, CSV, 19862011, 77; Mr D. G.C. Webster, Chairman, Intercontinental Hotels Group, 2004-12, 73; Sir Malcolm Walker, Chairman and Chief Executive, Iceland, 72; Mr Michael Jackson, television executive and producer, 60; Gen Sir Nicholas Carter, Chief of the General Staff, 59; Mr Justice Garnham 59; Mr Stephen Jones, Warden, St Edward’s School, Oxford, 59; Lord Justice Sales 56; Mr Nigel Llong, former England cricketer; ICC Umpire, 49; Mr Edoardo Molinari, golfer, 37; and Mr Neil Robertson, snooker player; World Snooker Champion, 2010, 36.

Today is the anniversary of the Treaty of Paris in 1763, which ceded Canada to Britain.