Today’s birthdays

Sir Brian Jenkins, Chairman, Woolwich plc, 1995-2000; Lord Mayor of London, 1991-92, is 83; Mr Nicholas Hood, Chairman, Wessex Water, 1989-99, 83; Prof David Phillips, President, Royal Society of Chemistry, 2010-12, 79; Mr Mike Gibson, former Ireland rugby international, 76; Mr Craig Raine, poet, 74; Mr Paul Nicholas, actor and singer, 74; Lord Glennie, a Senator of the College of Justice in Scotland, 68; Mr Franz Klammer, former champion Alpine ski racer, 65; Miss Daryl Hannah, actress, 58; Mr Paul Eastwood, former Great Britain rugby league player, 53; Mr Mark Boucher, former South Africa cricketer, 42; Ms Elizabeth Johnson, former Paralympic swimmer; bronze medallist, women’s 100m breaststroke - SB6, London 2012, 33; and the Earl of Arundel and Surrey 31.

Today is the anniversary of the first human to human heart transplant, carried out by Christiaan Barnard in Cape Town, in 1967.