BIRTHDAYS
Birgitte, the Duchess of Gloucester, 74; Alison Blackburne, deputy high commissioner to Pakistan, 56; Dolores Brooks, singer (The Crystals), 73; Air Chief Marshal Sir Simon Bryant, former commander-inchief Air Command and air aide-de-camp to the Queen, 64; Shefali Chowdhury, actor, 32; Candy Clark, actor, 73; Wendy Craig, actor, 86; Stafford Dean, bass opera singer, 83; Janie Dee, actor and singer, 58; Ven Peter Delaney, archdeacon emeritus of London, 81; Olympia Dukakis, actor, 89; Stephen Frears, film and television director, 79; John Goodman, actor, 68; Andrew Graham, political economist and former master, Balliol College, Oxford, 78;
Jerry Keller, singer and songwriter, 83; Nicole Kidman, actor, 53; Allan Lamb, businessman and former cricketer, 66; Frank Lampard, manager, and former footballer, 42; Jean-Marie Le Pen, politician, 92; Brandon Lewis MP and secretary of state for Northern Ireland, 49; Tress MacNeille, voice actor, 69; Sir Andrew McFarlane, president of the Family Division, High Court of Justice, 66; Professor Gordon Marshall, sociologist and director, Leverhulme Trust, 68; Professor Paul Muldoon, poet and former Oxford professor of poetry, 69;
Peter Reid, manager, and former footballer, 64; Lionel Richie, singer and songwriter (Commodores), 71; Robert Rodriguez, film producer and director, 52; Derek ‘Budge’ Rogers, former rugby union player, 81; Vikram Seth, novelist, 68; John Taylor, bass guitarist (Duran Duran), 60; Claire Tomalin, biographer, 87; Brian Wilson, singer and songwriter (The Beach Boys), 78.