Today’s birthdays

Prince Albert II of Monaco is 60. Sir Michael Caine, actor, 85; Gen Paul A. Rader, General of The Salvation Army, 1994-99, 84; Mr Anthony Smith, President of Magdalen College, Oxford, 1988-2005, 80; Prof Sir John Temple, President, British Medical Association; President, Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, 2000-2003, 76; Miss Rita Tushingham, actress, 76; the Earl

of Halifax 74; Sir Christopher Clarke, a former Lord Justice of Appeal, 71; Miss Pam Ayres, poet, 71; Prof Sir Ian Diamond,

Principal and Vice-chancellor, University of Aberdeen, 64; Miss

Tessa Sanderson, former javelin thrower and heptathlete; Olympic gold medallist, javelin, Los Angeles 1984, 62; Mr Adrian Lucas, conductor and organist; Organist and Master of the Choristers, Worcester Cathedral, 1996-2011, 56; Mr Phil Vickery, former England rugby player, 42; and Mr

Peter Chambers, rower; Olympic silver medallist, lightweight men’s four, London 2012, 28. Today is the anniversary of the birth of Albert Einstein in 1879.