Today’s birthdays

Lord Wakeham, Chairman, Press Complaints Commission, 1995-2002, is 90; Miss Prunella Scales, actress, 90; Mr Libor Pesek, conductor, 89; Sir Hugh Annesley, Chief Constable, Royal Ulster Constabulary, 1989-96, 83; Dame Esther Rantzen, television producer and presenter, 82; Sir Stephen Waley-cohen, theatre owner-manager and producer; Chairman, RADA, 2007-21, 76; Gen Linda Bond, General of The Salvation Army, 2011-13, 76; the Earl of Wemyss and March 74; Sir Brian Leveson, President of the Queen’s Bench Division, 2013-19, and Head of Criminal Justice, 2017-19, 73; Miss Meryl Streep, actress, 73; Mr Humphrey Ocean, painter, 71; Mr Michael Kinane, former flat racing jockey, 63; Mr Dan Brown, author, 58; and Ms Aileen Mcglynn, Paralympic tandem cyclist; three-times Paralympic gold medallist, 49. Today is the anniversary of the issue of Queen Elizabeth I’s Prayer Book in 1559. It is also the anniversary of the death of Judy Garland in 1969.