Today’s birthdays:
Henry Harper, New Zealand Anglican bishop (180493); George Bell, New Zealand newspaper proprietor/editor (180999); Henry Coote, New Zealand farmer/artist (181967); Robert Parker, New Zealand organist/choirmaster/conductor (18471937); Edwin Thoms Cox, New Zealand Methodist minister and mayor of Dunedin (18811967); Warwick Braithwaite, New Zealandborn British conductor (18961971); Fraser Barron, Royal New Zealand Air Force officer (192144); Whetu TirikateneSullivan, New Zealand politician (19322011); Joan Baez, US folk singer (1941); Jimmy Page, British Led Zeppelin guitarist (1944); Owen (Noddy) Stephens, one of only three players to have represented both New Zealand and Australia in rugby union (1947); Crystal Gayle , US singer (1951); Warren Parry, New Zealand darts player (1964); Joely Richardson, British actress (1965); Dave Matthews, South Africanborn
US musician (1967); Kate
Middleton, Duchess of
Cambridge (1982); Paul
CarnegieJones, New Zealand pianist (1985); Joseph Parker, New Zealand boxer (1992); Diamond Langi, New Zealand model/ actress (1992).