THIS WEEK’S BIRTHDAYS
TODAY Salman Rushdie, author, is 69. Paula Abdul, singer and TV personality, is 54. Kathleen Turner, actress, is 62. Gena Rowlands, actress, is 86. Zoe Saldana, star of Avatar, is 38. Aung San Suu Kyi, Burmese politician, is 71. Aidan Turner, star of Poldark, is 33. Boris Johnson, former London mayor, is 52. Ayman al-Zawahiri, Egyptian-born leader of al-Qaeda, is 65. Macklemore, rapper, is 33.
MONDAY Aonghus McAnally, RTE broadcaster, is 61. Brian Wilson, composer and bandleader of The Beach Boys, is 74. Nicole Kidman, Australian actress, is 49. Lionel Richie, singer, is 67. John Mahoney, actor who starred in TV series Frasier, is 76. Frank Lampard, New York City FC midfielder, is 38. John Goodman, actor, is 64.
TUESDAY Prince William, second in line to the British crown, is 34. Brandon Flowers, singer with The Killers, is 35. Ray Davies, songwriter and singer with The Kinks, is 72. Juliette Lewis, actress and singer, is 43. Ian McEwan, Booker-win- ning author, is 68. Lana Del Rey, singer, is 31. Chris Pratt, star of Jurassic World, is 37.
WEDNESDAY Nora Owen, former FG Minister for Justice, is 72. Esther Rantzen, TV presenter, is 76. Cyndi Lauper, pop star, is 63. Kris Kristofferson, singer-songwriter, is 80. Prunella Scales, alias Sybil Fawlty, is 84. Meryl Streep, Oscar-winning actress, is 67. Dan Brown, author of The Da Vinci Code, is 52. Lindsay Wagner, actress, is 67.
THURSDAY Paul Costelloe, designer, is 71. Frances McDormand, Oscar-winning actress, is 59. Duffy (real name Amie Ann), singer, is 32. Zinedine Zidane, manager of Real Madrid, is 44.
Colin Montgomerie, golfer, is 53. Selma Blair, actress, is 44. KT Tunstall, Scottish singer-songwriter, is 41.
FRIDAY Jeff Beck, guitarist, is 72. Mick Fleetwood, drummer and founder of Fleetwood Mac, is 69. Petra Nemcova, Czech supermodel, is 37. Peter Weller, actor who played RoboCop, is 69. Terry Riley, avant-garde composer, is 81. Lionel Messi, Argentine soccer player, is 29. Solange Knowles, sister of Beyonce who famously attacked Jay-Z in a lift, is 30. Colin Blunstone, singer with The Zombies is 71.
SATURDAY Ricky Gervais, comedian, is 55. George Michael, singer, is 52. Carly Simon, singer-songwriter, is 71. Peter Blake, pop artist who designed the cover of the Sergeant Pepper LP, is 84. June Lockhart, actress, is 91. Neil Lennon, former Northern Irish footballer and manager of Hibernian, is 45. Jamie Redknapp, former footballer turned TV pundit, is 43.