TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS
George Alagiah, newsreader and writer, 63; Marvan Atapattu, former Sri Lanka cricket captain, 48; Aston Barrett (“Family Man”), bassist (Bob Marley and the Wailers), 72; Boris Becker, commentator and former tennis player, 51; John Bird, actor, comedian, and writer, 82; Very Rev Roger Bush, dean of Truro, 62; Leos Carax (Alex Dupont), film director, 58; Thomas Carter, ambassador to Honduras, 65; Professor Nicola Clayton, professor of comparative cognition, University of Cambridge, 56; Tom Conti, actor and
director, 77; Jamie Lee Curtis, Lady Haden-Guest, actor and author, 60; Sen Dog (Senen Reyes), rapper (Cypress Hill), 53; Marouane Fellaini, footballer, 31; Terry Gilliam, animator, actor, writer and film director, 78; Jyoti Guptara, novelist, 30; Suresh Guptara, novelist, 30; Mariel Hemingway, actor, 57; Stephen Hough, concert pianist and composer, 57; Peter Hurford, organist and composter, 88; Scarlett Johansson, actor and singer, 34; Billie Jean King, former tennis player, 75; Sidse Knudsen, actor, 50; Wayne Larkins, former cricketer, 65; Frank McAvennie, former footballer, 59; Mushtaq Mohammed, former Pakistan cricket captain, 75; Tony Mowbray, manager and former footballer, 55; Kent Nagano, conductor and music director,
Montreal Symphony Orchestra, 67; Karen O (Karen Lee Orzolek), singer (Yeah Yeah Yeahs), 40; Bruce Payne, actor, 60; Oscar Pistorius, former Paralympic sprinter, 32; Mark Pritchard MP, 52; Mark Ruffalo, actor, 51; Marjane Satrapi, graphic novelist, artist and film director, 49; Chris Smalling, footballer, 29;
Tina Weymouth, bassist (Talking Heads), 68; Jesse Colin Young, singer-songwriter (The Youngbloods), 77.