Sir David was born in west London on 8 May 1926, and has also fronted pioneering natural history series including his Life Collection, The Trials of Life and The Blue Planet.
He has two children with wife Jane, who died in 1997. His brother Richard was an Oscar-winning actor and director, and died in 2014.
On Thursday, the National History Museum paid tribute to Sir David by naming a species of parasitic wasp after him.
The Attenboroughnculus tau is native to the Patagonian lakes of Chile, and a specimen was recently found in the museum’s collection, four decades after it was collected.
Other species to have been named after the broadcaster in the past include a wildflower, butterfly, grasshopper, dinosaur and ghost shrimp.