BIRTHDAYS
Peter Asher, singer, guitarist and record producer (Peter and Gordon), 76; Danny Baker, broadcaster and writer, 63; Chris Blackwell, founder, Island Records, and former record producer, 83; Klaus Maria Brandauer, actor and professor, Max Reinhardt Seminar, Vienna, 77; Erin Brockovich, environmental activist, 60; Dan Brown, novelist, 56; Stephen Chow, actor and director, 58; Green Gartside (Paul Strohmeyer), singer-songwriter and guitarist (Scritti Politti), 65; Bobby Gillespie, singer and drummer (Primal Scream), 58;
Howard Kaylan, singer (Flo & Eddie), 73; Bruce Kent, former general secretary and chair, Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, 91; Kris Kristofferson, singer-songwriter (The Highwaymen) and actor, 84; Cyndi Lauper, singer and LGBT+ rights activist, 67; Sir Brian Leveson, chancellor, Liverpool John Moores University, and former president, Queen’s Bench Division, High Court of Justice, 71; Sharon Maughan, actor, 70; Humphrey Ocean, painter and Royal Academy professor of perspective, 69;
Alan Osmond, singer (The Osmonds), 71; Rt Rev Mark O’Toole, RC bishop of Plymouth, 57; Steven Page, singer-songwriter and guitarist (Barenaked Ladies), 50; Hermeto Pascoal, multi-instrumentalist and composer, 84; John Penrose MP, 56; Libor Pesek, conductor laureate, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Society and Orchestra, 87; Dame Esther Rantzen, television producer and presenter, and founder, Childline, 80; Todd Rundgren, multi-instrumentalist and singer-songwriter (Utopia), 72; Prunella Scales, actor, 88; Jimmy Somerville, singer (Bronski Beat), 59; Alastair Stewart, former television broadcaster, 68;
Mary ‘Meryl’ Streep, actor, 71; Lindsay Wagner, actor, 71; Stephen Waley-Cohen, theatre owner and manager, 74.