BIRTHDAYS
Deborah Arnott, chief executive, Action on Smoking and Health (ASH), 66; Paul ‘Bonehead’ Arthurs, guitarist (Oasis), 56; Richard Bach, writer, 85; Kim Begley, opera singer, 69; Selma Blair, actor, 49; Bryan Brown, actor, 74; Keith Burkinshaw, former manager and footballer, 86; Vint Cerf, vice-president and chief internet evangelist, Google, 78; Most Rev David Chillingworth, former bishop of St Andrews, Dunkeld and Dunblane, and former primus of the Scottish Episcopal Church,
70; Nicholas Cleobury, conductor, 71; Becky Cloonan, comic book artist, 41;
Aimee Duffy, singer, 37; Sir John Elliott, regius professor emeritus of modern history, University of Oxford, 91; John Hannett, former general secretary, Union of Shop, Distributive and Allied Workers, 68; John Hayes, MP, 63; Julian Hipwood, coach and former polo player, 75; Lord Irvine of Lairg QC, former lord high chancellor of England and Wales, 81; Jordan (Pamela Rooke), model and actor, 66; Frances McDormand, actor, 64;
Colin Montgomerie, golfer, 58; Jesse Norman, MP, and financial secretary to the Treasury, 59; Dame Anne Owers, chair, Independent Monitoring Boards, and former chief inspector of prisons, 74; Lord Rees of Ludlow, cosmologist and astronomer royal, 79; Kate KT Tunstall, singer-songwriter and multiinstrumentalist, 46; Patrick Vieira, manager and former footballer, 45; Joss Whedon, writer and director, 57; Zinedine Zidane, manager, and former footballer, 49.
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