Birthdays
Mumtaz Askari, actor, 74; Victoria Azarenka, tennis player, 32; Lynne Reid Banks, novelist, 92; Ian Beck, illustrator and writer, 74; Bill Berry, former drummer (REM), 63; Nick Bollettieri, tennis coach, 90; Evonne Goolagong Cawley, former tennis player, 70; Will Champion, drummer and singer (Coldplay), 43; Ben Chaplin, actor, 52; Geraldine Chaplin, actor, 77; Jim Corr, singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, (The Corrs), 57;
Jonathan Dimbleby, radio and television broadcaster, journalist, and writer, 77; Andy Duncan, chief executive officer, Travelopia, 59; Fatboy Slim (Quentin “Norman” Cook), multi
instrumentalist and record producer (The Housemartins), 58; Emilia Fox, actor, 47; Frank Gardner, BBC security correspondent, and writer, 60;
Fergus Henderson, chef and restaurant owner, 58; Sherry Lansing (Sherry Lee Duhl), movie executive and former chief executive officer, Paramount Pictures, 77; Andrew Marr, television broadcaster, journalist, and former editor, The Independent, 62; Kim Newman, journalist and writer, 62; Cees Nooteboom, novelist and journalist, 88; Joanne “JK” Rowling, novelist, 56; Wesley Snipes, actor, 59; Professor Howard C Thomas, professor emeritus of hepatology, Imperial College London, 76; Mark Thompson, chairman, Ancestry, and former chief executive, New York Times Company, 64.
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