Today’s birthdays

Dame Stephanie Shirley, IT entrepreneur and philanthropist, is 88; Sir Anthony Hooper, a former Lord Justice of Appeal, 84; Mrs Julia Donaldson, author; Children’s Laureate, 2011-13, 73; Mr Stephen Farthing, artist, 71; Mr Andy Irvine, former Scotland rugby player, 70; Lord Mallochbrown, former Labour Government Minister, 68; Prof Sir Charles Bean, a Deputy Governor of the Bank of England, 2008-14, 68; Sir Norman Lamb, a former Liberal Democrat MP, 64; Dame Clara Furse, Chief Executive, London Stock Exchange, 2001-09, 64; Lady Justice Asplin 62; Viscount St Davids 55; and Mrs Menna Rawlings, diplomat; Ambassador to France, 54.

Today is the anniversary of the first Women’s Institute meeting in the UK held in Llanfairpwll, Anglesey, Wales, in 1915.