THIS WEEK’S BIRTHDAYS
TODAY
Michael Flatley, world-famous Irish dancer, is 59. Johnny Vaughan, TV presenter, is 51. Margaret Court, threetime Wimbledon champion, is 75. Will Ferrell, comedy actor, is 50. Stewart Copeland, drummer in The Police, is 65. Gareth Bale, Welsh Real Madrid football star, is 28.
MONDAY, JULY 17
Vincent Browne, Irish journalist, is 73. Michael Colgan, former director of the Gate Theatre, is 67. Donald Sutherland, actor, is 82. Camilla Parker-Bowles, wife of Prince Charles, is 70. Diahann Carroll, actress and singer, is 82. David Hasselhoff, actor and singer, is 65. Natasha Hamilton, Atomic Kitten singer, is 35. Angela Merkel, German Chancellor, is 63.
TUESDAY, JULY 18
Richard Branson, Virgin boss, is 67. Vin Diesel, action movie star, is 50. Edward Bond, playwright, is 83. Martha Reeves, soul singer, is 76. Nick Faldo, former champion golfer, is 60. Shane Horgan, retired Irish rugby player, is 39. Dion DiMucci, The Wanderer singer, is 78. M.I.A., English rapper, is 42.
WEDNESDAY, JULY 19
Benedict Cumberbatch, actor, is 41. Brian May, guitarist with Queen, is 70. Ilie Nastase, Romanian former tennis player, is 71. Evelyn Glennie, Scottish percussionist, is 52. George King, former Sunday Independent Sports Editor who initiated the campaign in 1970 that led to the removal of the GAA ban on “foreign” sports, is 86. Vitali Klitschko, boxer and politician, is 46.
THURSDAY, JULY 20
Gisele Bundchen, supermodel, is 37. Jacques Delors, former European Commission president, is 92. Carlos Santana, guitarist, is 70. Diana Rigg, actress, Bond girl and star of The Avengers, is 79. Judy Greer, actress, is 42. Cormac McCarthy, Pulitzer Prize-winning author, is 84. Kim Carnes, singer, is 72. Paul Cook, drummer with the Sex Pistols, is 61. Yusuf Islam, singer formerly known as Cat Stevens, is 69. Josh Hartnett, actor, is 39. Garry Trudeau, cartoonist, is 69. Damian Marley, reggae musician and son of Bob, is 39. Ross Kemp, actor, is 53. Steve Collins, former champion boxer, is 53.
SATURDAY, JULY 22
Terence Stamp, actor, is 79. Bob Dole, former US presidential candidate, is 94. Rhys Ifans, Welsh actor, is 50. Danny Glover, actor, is 71. Willem Dafoe, actor, is 62. Selena Gomez, actress/singer, is 25. Rufus Wainwright, singer/ songwriter, is 44. Don Henley, Eagles drummer and singer, is 70. Louise Fletcher, Oscar-winning actress for One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest, is 83. SE Hinton, American author, who wrote The Outsiders, is 69. Paul Schrader, movie writer-director, is 71.