Today’s birthdays

Miss Sylvia Darley, Founder, Malcolm Sargent Cancer Fund for Children, is 100; Prof Sir James Dunbar-nasmith, architect, 96; Sir James Butler, Senior Partner, KPMG Peat Marwick, 1986-93, 94; Sir Roger Tomkys, former diplomat; Master of Pembroke College, Cambridge, 1992-2004, 86; Prof Robert Taylor, Vice-chancellor, University of Buckingham, 1997-2001, 80; Dr

David Bryer, Chairman, Oxfam International, 2003-07, 79; Lord Carnwath of Notting Hill, a former Justice of the Supreme Court, 78; Major Michael Williams, Lord-lieutenant for East Lothian, 2014-21, 77; the Rt Rev Anthony Priddis, Bishop of

Hereford, 2004-13, 75; Dame

Deirdre Hutton, Chancellor of Cranfield University; Chairman, Civil Aviation Authority, 2009-20; 74, Sir John Saunders, a former High Court Judge, 74; Lord Alton

of Liverpool, former Liberal Democrat MP, 72; Miss Isobel Buchanan, soprano, 69; the Earl

of Granard 66; Miss Inez Lynn, Librarian, The London Library, 2002-17, 63; Mr Richard Kettleborough, former first class cricketer, ICC Umpire, 50; Mr Veselin Topalov, chess grandmaster, 48; and Ms Georgia Taylor-brown, triathlete; Olympic gold medallist, mixed triathlon relay and silver medallist, women’s triathlon, Tokyo 2020, 29.

Today is the anniversary of the assassination of Julius Caesar in 44BC.