Birthdays

Today: Lord Tugendhat, Chairman, Abbey National, 1991-2002, is 82; Lt-cdr Brian

Miles, Director, RNLI, 1988-98, 82; Mr F.E. Gerstenberg, Principal, George Watson’s College, Edinburgh, 1985-2001, 78; Mr John Lewis, Head Master, Eton College, 1994-2002, 77; Mr Anton Mosimann, chef and restaurateur,

72; Prof Baroness Finlay of Llandaff, President, Royal Society of Medicine, 2006-08, 70; Sir Nicholas Kenyon, Managing Director, Barbican Centre, 68; Miss Sylvie Guillem, former ballerina, 54; and Mr Ben

Rushgrove, sprint runner; Paralympic bronze medallist, 200m T36, London 2012, 31. Tomorrow: The Rev Baroness Richardson of Calow, Moderator, Free Churches’ Council, 1995-99, will be 81; Prof

Sir George Bain, President and Vice-chancellor of Queen’s University of Belfast, 1998-2004, 80; Mr Denis Law, former Scotland footballer, 79; Mr Paul

Jones, actor, singer, radio and television presenter, 77; Sir

William Blackburne, a former

High Court Judge, 75; Mr Dennis Waterman, actor, 71; Mr John Lever, former England cricketer, 70; Mr Justice Ouseley 69; Mr Derek Randall, former England cricketer, 68; the Marquess of Normanby, writer, 65; Mr Alain Prost, former racing driver; fourtimes Formula One World Champion, 64; Miss Rebecca

Slater, Keeper of the Royal Academy, 64; and Mr Zach Johnson, golfer; Open Champion 2015, 43. Today is the anniversary of the birth of Samuel Pepys in 1633 and of the deaths of John Keats in 1821 and Sir Edward Elgar in 1934.