THIS WEEK’S BIRTHDAYS
TODAY, NOV 11
Red Hurley, singer, is 71. Leonardo DiCaprio, actor, is 44. Demi Moore, actress, is 56. Andy Partridge, singer with XTC, is 65. Andrea Roche, model, is 41. DJ Carey, former Kilkenny hurler, is 48. Alison Doody, actress, is 52. Gemma Hussey, former minister, is 80. June Whitfield, actress of Terry & June, is 93.
MONDAY, NOV 12
Blathnaid Ni Chofaigh, RTE presenter, is 48. Des Bishop, comedian, is 43. James McCarthy, Everton/Ireland midfielder, is 28. Neil Young, singer-songwriter, is 73. Jim McGuinness, former Donegal coach, is 46. Booker T Jones, of Booker T & the MGs, is 74. Anne Hathaway, actress, is 36. Ryan Gosling, actor, is 38. Cian O’Connor, Olympic showjumper, is 39. Nadia Comaneci, first Olympic gymnast to get a perfect 10, is 57. Eamonn Carr, Horslips’ drummer, is 70.
TUESDAY, NOV 13
Dustin the Turkey, RTE puppet character, is 30. Whoopi Goldberg, actress, is 63. Ron ‘Chopper’ Harris, ex-Chelsea defender, is 74. Gerard Butler, actor, is 49. Nikolai Fraiture, bassist with The Strokes, is 40. Trevor Ringland, ex-Ireland rugby player, is 59.
WEDNESDAY, NOV 14
Andrew Strong, actor, is 45. Bernard Hinault, five-time Tour de France winner, is 64. Prince Charles, British royal, is 70. Condoleezza Rice, former US secretary of state, is 64. Travis Barker, drummer with Blink 182, is 43. Reverend Run, founder of hip-hop group Run-DMC, is 54. Brian Gleeson, actor son of Brendan, is 31. Catherine McGuinness, retired Supreme Court judge, is 84. PJ O’Rourke, satirist and journalist, is 71.
THURSDAY, NOV 15
Mick Moloney, traditional musician, is 74. Tommy Stack, former national hunt jockey and trainer, is 73. Anni-Frid Lyngstad, singer with Abba, is 73. Ed Asner, actor, is 89. Petula Clark, 1960s pop-singer, is 86. Mahmoud Abbas, Palestinian president, is 83.
Daniel Barenboim, pianist and conductor, is 76.
FRIDAY, NOV 16
Griff Rhys Jones, comedian, is 65. Maggie Gyllenhaal, actress, is 41. Willie Carson, retired jockey, is 76. Frank Bruno, former boxing champion, is 57. Paul Scholes, exMan Utd midfielder, is 44. Mani, bassist with The Stone Roses, is 56. Magdi Yacoub, pioneering heart transplant surgeon of the 1980s, is 88. Diana Krall, jazz pianist and singer, is 54.
SATURDAY, NOV 17
Johnny Fean, Horslips’ guitarist, is 67. Sarah Harding, ex-Girls Aloud singer, is 37. Martin Scorsese, movie director, is 76. Danny DeVito, actor, is 74. Jonathan Ross, TV presenter, is 58. Gordon Lightfoot, singer-songwriter, is 80. Cyril Ramaphosa, South African president, is 66.