Today’s birthdays

Miss Shirley Hughes, author and illustrator, is 93; Sir Michael Morland, a former High Court

Judge, 91; Sir George Bull,

Chairman, J. Sainsbury plc, 1998-2004, 84; Lord Young of

Cookham, former Conservative Cabinet Minister, 79; Sir David

Clarke, a former High Court Judge, 78; Mr Frank Field, a former Labour Government Minister, 78; Mrs Margaret

Court, former tennis player; three times Wimbledon Ladies’ Singles Champion, 78; the Rt Rev Jack

Nicholls, Bishop of Sheffield, 1997-2008, 77; Baroness

Warwick of Undercliffe, Chief Executive, Universities UK, 1995-2009, 75; Mr Pinchas Zukerman, conductor, violinist and violist, 72; Dr Sir James Macmillan, composer and conductor, 61; Miss Joanna Macgregor, concert pianist, 61; Señor Miguel Indurain, former road racing cyclist; consecutive five times winner of the Tour de France, 1991-95, 56; and Mr Gareth Bale, Real Madrid and Wales footballer, 31.

Today is the anniversary of the explosion of the first atomic bomb, in New Mexico, in 1945.