Today’s birthdays

Miss Glynis Johns, actress, is 97; Wg Cdr Bryn Lewis, Chairman, The Shackleton Association; circumnavigated the first RAF 4 jet engined aircraft, Vulcan, in 1959, 96; the Rt Rev R.M. Hardy, Bishop of Lincoln, 1986-2001, 84; Sir Michael Morpurgo, author, 77; Mr John Bridgeman, Regulatory Director, British Horseracing Authority, 2008-12, 76; Prof Gordon Benson, architect, 74; Mr Bob Geldof, singer and songwriter; organiser and initiator of Band Aid and Live Aid, 69; Sir Philip Hampton, former Chairman, Glaxosmithkline plc; Royal Bank of Scotland Group, 2009-14, 67; Mr Roy Laidlaw, former Scotland rugby player, 67; Lord Turner of Ecchinswell, Chairman, Financial Services Authority, 2008-13, 65; Dame Laura Davies, golfer, 57; Mr Nick Robinson, journalist and broadcaster, 57; Sir Richard

Heaton, former Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Justice, 55; Mr Peter O’donoghue, York Herald, College of Arms, 49; Miss Kate Winslet, actress, 45; and

Mr Oliver James, rowing cox; Paralympic gold medallist, mixed coxed four, Rio 2016, 30.

Today is the anniversary of the crash of the airship R101 at Beauvais, France, in 1930.