Birthday pictures 19 June, 2009

Thelma Barlow, British actress, is 75 today. Seen here starring in Arsenic and Old Lace, by Joseph Kesselring, with Thelma Barlow (Abby Brewster) and Marcia Warren (Martha Brewster) at the Strand Theatre, London, 2003. (photographer Tristram Kenton)

Professor Bryan Kneale, RA, is 79 today, in his London studio. (Photographer A-K Purkiss)

Salman Rushdie, British-Indian novelist, is 62 today.