BIRTHDAYS 7 OCTOBER

Simon Cowell, British producer (1959)

Niels Bohr, Danish nuclear physicist and Nobel Prize winner (1885-1962); Desmond Tutu, Anglican Archbishop in South Africa, winner of the 1984 Nobel Peace Prize (1931); John Mellencamp, US singer (1951); Yo-Yo Ma, cellist, (1955); Toni Braxton, US singer (1968).