Today’s birthdays

Sir Norman Rosenthal, curator and arts consultant; Exhibitions Secretary, Royal Academy of Arts, 1977-2008, is 78; Cardinal Vincent Nichols, Archbishop of Westminster, 77; Sir Anthony Habgood, company chairman, 76; Dame Laura Cox, a former High Court Judge, 71; Sir Kazuo Ishiguro, author; winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2017, 68; Mr Richard Curtis, director and writer, 66; Ms Sue Bowers, Director, The Pilgrim Trust, 61; Mr Gordon Ramsay, chef and restaurateur, 56; Prof Sir Andrew Goddard, former President, Royal College of Physicians, 55; Mr Brett Lee, former Australia cricketer, 46; Mr Francesco Molinari, golfer; Open Champion 2018, 40; and Lady Louise Windsor, daughter of the Earl and Countess of Wessex, 19.

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