Today’s birthdays

Mr Norman Jewison, film director, producer and actor, is 96; Mr D.J. Trevelyan, Principal of Mansfield College, Oxford, 1989-96, 93; Canon Dr Donald Gray, Chaplain to the Speaker, 1987-98, 92; Mr Julian Pettifer,

writer and broadcaster, 87; Sir Andrew Buchanan, Lordlieutenant for Nottinghamshire, 1991-2012, 85; Prof Peter Clarke,

Master of Trinity Hall, Cambridge, 2000-04, 80; Sir Andrew Burns,

former diplomat, 79; the Rt Rev Dr Aidan Bellenger, Abbot of Downside, 2006-14, 72; Baroness Kramer, former Coalition Government Minister, 72; Ald Sir David Wootton, Lord Mayor of London, 2011-12, 72; Sir Richard Gozney, former diplomat; Lieutenant Governor of the Isle of Man, 2016-21, 71; Prof James Tooley, Vice-chancellor of the University of Buckingham, 63; Mr Robert Marshall, Vice Chairman, Marshall Group, 2019-20; Chief Executive, 2011-19, 60; Mr Andrew Blackman, Lordlieutenant for East Sussex, 54; Mr Paul Casey, golfer, 45; Mr Richard Johnson, National Hunt jockey; four-time champion jockey, 45; Mr Phelan Hill,

coxswain; Olympic gold medallist, men’s coxed eight, Rio 2016 and bronze medallist, men’s eight, London 2012, 43; and Mr Louis Rolfe, cyclist; Paralympic gold medallist, Rio 2016, 25.

Today is the anniversary of the death of Robert Burns in 1796 and of the birth of Ernest Hemingway in 1899. It is also the anniversary of Neil Armstrong being the first man to walk on the Moon in 1969.