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Adam Afriyie, MP, 56; Moya Brennan (Máire Ní Bhraonáin), singer and harpist (Clannad), 69; Ian Broudie, multiinstr­umentalist and singer (Lightning Seeds) and record producer, 63; Leon Camier, team manager, Honda World Superbike, and former motorcycle racer, 35; Mary Decker Slaney, former middle-distance runner, 63; Declan Donnellan, joint artistic director, Cheek by Jowl, 68; Greta Gerwig, actor, director, and screenwrit­er, 38; Georgina Hale (Georgina Hole), actor, 78; Wang Hao, chess player, 32;

Martin Jarvis, actor, 80; Lee Mack (Lee McKillop), comedian and actor, 53; Mike Marsh, former sprinter, 54; Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, 40; Jojo Moyes, novelist and journalist, 52; Barack Obama, former president of the United States, 60; Simon Preston, organist and composer, 83; Vini Reilly, guitarist (The Durutti Column), 68; Bernard Rose, film director and screenwrit­er, 61;

Klaus Schultze, composer and multi-instrument­alist (Tangerine Dream), 74; Kate Silverton, television journalist and broadcaste­r, 51; Dylan Sprouse, actor, 29; Cole Sprouse, actor, 29; Peter Squires, former cricketer and rugby union player, 70; Billy Bob Thornton, actor, writer and director, 66; Professor Stefan Vogenauer, managing director, Max Planck Institute for European Legal History, 53; John Wark, former footballer, 64; Tim Winton, novelist, 61; Trevor Woodman, coach and former rugby union player, 45.

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 ?? (AFP/Getty) ?? Former US president Barack Obama is 60 today
(AFP/Getty) Former US president Barack Obama is 60 today

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