Birthdays today

Rhun ap Iorwerth, leader of Plaid Cymru and MS for Ynys Môn, 52; Barbara Bach (Lady Starkey), actress, The Spy Who Loved Me (1977), 77; Sir John Chisholm, chairman, Genomics England (2013-19), Medical Research Council (2006-12), 78; Gary Cohn, vice-chairman of IBM, economic adviser to President Trump (2017-18), president of Goldman Sachs (2006-17), 64; Sian Edwards, head of conducting, Royal Academy of Music, music director, English National Opera (1993-95), 65; Lady Antonia Fraser, writer, Love and Louis XIV: the Women in the Life of the Sun King (2006), 92; Tom Ford, fashion designer and film-maker, 63; Lord (Gerry) Grimstone of Boscobel, investment minister (2020-22), chairman, Barclays Bank (2018-19), Standard Life Aberdeen (2017-18), 75; Avril Haines, US director of national intelligence, 55; Mary Henderson, head teacher of the Yehudi Menuhin School (1986-88), 103; Sir Michael Holroyd, biographer of Bernard Shaw and Lytton Strachey, 89; Suranne Jones, actress, Doctor Foster (2015-17), 46; Bernhard Langer, golfer, 67; Dame Denise Lewis, heptathlete, Olympic gold medallist (2000), president of UK Athletics, 52; John Lloyd, tennis player, 70; David Logan, Coulson professor of theoretical chemistry, University of Oxford, 68; David Morgan-Hewitt, chairman, the Goring hotel, London, 62; Roland Mouret, fashion designer, designer for the Duchess of Sussex, 63; Ann Murray, mezzo-soprano, 75; Sir Hugh Orde QPM, president, Association of Chief Police Officers (2009-15), 66; Ange Postecoglou, manager, Tottenham Hotspur, 59; Sir Mark Turner, High Court judge, 65; Lord (William) Vestey, landowner and director, Vestey food group, 41; Jeanette Winterson, writer, Oranges are Not the Only Fruit (1985), Frankissstein: A Love Story (2019), 65; Michael Wolff, writer, Landslide: The Final Days of the Trump Presidency (2021), 71.