Today’s birthdays

Mr A.G.T. Chubb, former company chairman, is 90; Prof J.D. Watson, joint winner of the Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology, 1962, 90; Mr André Previn, conductor, pianist and composer, 89; Capt Michael Fulford-dobson, RN, Lordlieutenant for Dorset, 1999-2006, 87; the Duke of Montrose 83; Sir Angus Grossart, Chairman, Scottish Investment Trust, 1975-2003, 81; Dame Felicity Palmer, mezzo-soprano, 74; Sir David Calvert-smith, a former High Court Judge, 73; the Rt Rev

David Conner, Dean of Windsor, 71; Mr Dilip Vengsarkar, cricket administrator and former India cricketer, 62; the Duke of Atholl

58; Vice-adml Sir David Steel,

Second Sea Lord and Chief of Naval Personnel, 2012-15, 57; Mr

Rory Bremner, impressionist, writer and presenter, 57; Sir

Sebastian Wood, Ambassador to

Germany, 57; Lt Gen Patrick Sanders, Commander Field Army, 52; Mr Chris Evans, Editor, The

Daily Telegraph, 50; the Duke of Grafton 40; and Lord Frederick Windsor, son of Prince and Princess Michael of Kent, 39. Today is the anniversary of the death of Raphael in 1520. It is also the anniversary of Cdr Peary reaching the North Pole in 1909.