BIRTHDAYS
Nick Baines, keyboardist, 40; Matthew Broderick, actor, 56; Peter Brook, theatre director and producer, 93; Jane Bruton, Director, Lifestyle, The Daily Telegraph, and former Editor-in-Chief, Grazia, 51; Guy Chadwick, singer-songwriter and guitarist, 62; Adrian Chiles, broadcaster, 51; Ann Clwyd MP, 81; Timothy Dalton, actor, 72; Jamie Delgado, coach and former tennis player, 41; Ray Dorset, singer and musician, 72; Ieuan Evans, former rugby union player, 54; Michael Foreman, writer and illustrator, 80; Lord Grabiner, lawyer and Master of Clare College, Cambridge, 73; Sir John Hall, property developer and former Chairman, Newcastle United FC, 85; Lord Heseltine, founder, Haymarket Publishing Group, and former government minister, 85;
Rochelle Humes, singer and television presenter, 29; General Sir Mike Jackson, former Chief of the General Staff, 74; Carwyn Jones, Prif Weinidog Cymru/First Minister of Wales, 51; Jade Jones, Olympic taekwondo champion, 25; Lothar Matthäus, former Germany football captain, 57; Matthew Maynard,
Director of Cricket, coach and former England cricketer, 52; Ved Mehta, writer, 84; Jonathan Mills, composer and former Director, Edinburgh International Festival, 55; Sarah Jane Morris, singer, 59; Amanda Nevill, CEO, British Film Institute, 61; Professor Anne Neville, Royal Academy of Engineering Research Chair in Emerging Technologies, University of Leeds, 48;
Gary Oldman, actor and director, 60; Professor JD Pickard, Emeritus Professor of Neurosurgery, University of Cambridge, 72; Ronaldinho (Ronaldo de Assis Moreira), footballer, 38; Rose Stone (Rosemary Stewart), singer and keyboardist, 73; Professor Stephen Weatherill, Jacques Delors Professor of European Law, University of Oxford, 57; Mike Westbrook, jazz composer, pianist and bandleader, 82; Mark Williams, snooker player and former world champion, 43; Slavoj Zizek, philosopher and International Director, The Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities, University of London, 69.