Birthdays

Singer Sam Smith is 26. He is a distant cousin of Lily Allen. Who guitarist Pete

Townshend is 73. He started a skiffle group aged 12. Singer and model Grace

Jones is 70. She starred in the 1985 Bond film A View To A Kill. And many happy returns to Mirror reader Bill

Jackson Smith of Peterlee, Co Durham, who is 71.

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