Today’s birthdays

Mr Peter Brook, theatre producer, is 94; Miss Olwen Davies,

Headmistress, St Swithun’s School, Winchester, 1973-86, 93; Dr C.L.

Brundin, President of Templeton College, Oxford, 1992-96, 88; Lord

Heseltine, former Conservative Cabinet Minister, 86; Ms Ann

Clwyd, MP, 82; Prof Sir Roger Williams, Vice-chancellor, University of Reading, 1993-2002, 77; Mr John Windeler, Chairman, Alliance and Leicester plc, 1999-2005, 76; Gen Sir Mike

Jackson, Chief of the General Staff, 2003-06, 75; Lord Grabiner,

QC, Master of Clare College, Cambridge, 74; Mr Donald

Martin, Lord-lieutenant for the Western Isles, 72; Mr Stuart

Westley, Master of Haileybury, 1996-2009, 72; Mr David Heathcoat-amory, former Conservative Government Minister, 70; Mr Alvin Kallicharran, former West Indies

cricketer, 70; Miss Claire Makin,

Chief Executive, Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, 1995-97, 68; Adml Sir Trevor Soar, C-in-c Fleet, 2009-12, 62; Mr Gary

Oldman, actor, 61; Mrs Justice May 58; Sir Jonathan Mills,

Director, Edinburgh International Festival, 2007-14, 56; Mr Carwyn

Jones, AM, First Minister for

Wales, 52; Mr Mark Williams, snooker player; World Champion 2000, 2003 and 2018, 44; Mr Iain

Percy, sailor; double Olympic champion, 43; and Ms Jade Jones, Olympic gold medallist, women’s taekwondo 57kg, London 2012 and Rio 2016, 26. Today is the anniversary of the death of Thomas Cranmer, burned at the stake in Oxford in 1556.