Today’s birthdays

Prof Sir Stanley Wells,

Shakespearean scholar; Chairman, Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, 1991-2011, now Honorary President, is 90; Lord

Greenway 79; Sir Bill Connor,

General Secretary, Union of Shop, Distributive and Allied Workers, 1997-2004, 79; Lord Hunt of

Wirral, Chairman, Press Complaints Commission, 2011-14, 78; Mrs Mary Robinson, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, 1997-2002; President of the Republic of

Ireland, 1990-97, 76; Mr Richard

Peskin, Chairman, Great Portland Estates, 1986-2009, 76; Mr James

Cochrane, Chairman, British Red Cross, 2007-12, 76; Mr John

Burton, Surveyor to the Fabric, Canterbury Cathedral, 1990-2014; Surveyor of the Fabric of Westminster Abbey, 1999-2012, 75; Sir Peter Lampl, Founder and Chairman, the Sutton Trust and Education Endowment Foundation, 73; Dr Denis

Macshane, former Labour Minister, 72; Mr Leo Sayer, singer and songwriter, 72; Sir Denis

O’connor, Chief Inspector of Constabulary, 2009-12, 71; Mr

Andrew Neil, media executive and broadcaster, 71; Mr Will

Hutton, Principal of Hertford College, Oxford, 70; Mr Justice

Mann 69; Sir Jonathan Phillips,

Warden of Keble College, Oxford, 68; the Earl of Ranfurly 63; Sir

Jonathan Jones, QC, Procurator General, Treasury Solicitor and Permanent Secretary, Government Legal Department, 58; Mr Stewart Cink, golfer; Open Champion 2009, 47; Mr

Stuart Bingham, snooker player; World Champion 2015, 44; Mr

Mark Cavendish, professional road racing cyclist, 35; Ms Alex

Danson, former GB field hockey player; Olympic gold medallist, women’s tournament, Rio 2016, 35; Ms Claire Cashmore, swimmer; Paralympic gold medalist, Rio 2016; two silver medals and one bronze, London 2012, 32; and Mr Tom Daley, diver; Olympic bronze medallist, 10 metre platform, London 2012; 2009 and 2017 World Champion, 10 metre platform, 26.

Today is the anniversary of the birth of Elizabeth Fry, prison reformer, in 1780.