Today’s birthdays

Sir Andrew Leggatt, a former Lord Justice of Appeal, is 89; Mr Richard Stoker, composer and writer, 81; Mr Martin Peters, former England footballer, 76; Sir Norman Rosenthal, curator and arts consultant; Exhibitions Secretary, Royal Academy of Arts, 1977-2008, 75; Cardinal Vincent Nichols, Archbishop of Westminster, 74; Sir Anthony Habgood, company chairman, 73; Dame Laura Cox, a former High Court Judge, 68; Sir Kazuo Ishiguro, author, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2017, 65; Mr Richard Curtis, director and writer, 63; Mr Gordon Ramsay, chef and restaurateur, 53; Prof Andrew Goddard, President, Royal College of Physicians, 52; Mr Brett Lee, former Australia cricketer, 43; Mr Francesco Molinari, golfer; Open Champion 2018, 37; and Lady Louise Windsor, daughter of the Earl and Countess of Wessex, 16.

Today is the anniversary of the landing of the Allies in North Africa in 1942.