The writer and broadcaster Francine Stock says that she plans to start her birthday “with an hour and a half of vinyasa yoga in Susanne Lahusen’s class”. It is a form of yoga that combines breath control and movement. Then she will be at her computer until mid-afternoon, when she goes to Soho for an interview with a film director. Later there is a family dinner “and hopefully I can Skype my elder daughter who is away at University”. RGT
Birthdays today
Nicolas Anelka, footballer, 32; Pam Ayres, poet and broadcaster, 64; Jamie Bell, actor, 25; Professor Sir Michael Berry, physicist, 70; Eleanor Bron, actress, 73; Liz Burnley, Chief Guide of Girlguiding UK, 52; Sir Michael Caine, actor, 78; Jasper Carrott, comedian, 66; Billy Crystal, actor and comedian, 63; Quincy Jones, bandleader and composer, 78; Sean Mathias, theatre director and writer, 55; General Paul Rader, General of the Salvation Army, 1994-99, 77; Tessa Sanderson, athlete and broadcaster, 55; John Stephenson, cricketer, 46; Rita Tushingham, actress, 69; Phil Vickery, rugby international, 35; Sir Nicholas Wall, President of the Family Division and Head of Family Justice for England and Wales, 66.