Birthday pictures 22nd June 2009

Part of The Da Vinci Code poster promoting book by Dan Brown, American writer, who is 45 today.(HH)

Kris Kristofferson in title roleas Billy the Kid and James Coburn as Pat Garrett in the western directed by Sam Peckinpah.Kris Kristofferson is 73 today. (RA)

Libor Pesek conducting in Prague, is 76 today. (photographer Zdenek Chrapek)

Esther Rantzen, tv presenter and producer, president of Childline in 2004, is 69 today (photographer Nigel Sutton)

Meryl Streep, American actress, in 1980, is 60 today. (photographer Joe Bangay)

Birthday pictures 21 June 2009

Ray Davies, English singer and songwriter and member of The Kinks in London, 2003, is 65 today. (photographer Tony Bartolo)

Juliette Lewis, British actress and musician, is 36 today. In role as May in Sam Shepard ’s play ‘Fool For Love’ at the Apollo Theatre, London in 2006. Directed by Lindsay Posner.(photographer Tristram Kenton)

Ian McEwan, British writer, is 61 today. (photographer Eamonn McCabe)

Jane Russell , American actress, with Clark Gable in The Tall Man, directed by Raoul Walsh, is 89 today. 1955.

Birthday pictures 20 June 2009

Stephen Frears, English film director, February 2003 is 68 today. (photographer Vicky Alhadeff)

Paul Muldoonm British poet, in work at 1984, is 58 today. (photographer George Newson) 1984

Lionel Richie, American singer, performing at the LG Arena, Birmingham, 2009, is 60 today. (photographer Ian Yates)

Vikram Seth, Indian novelist and poet at the launch of his book ‘Two Lives’, August 2005, is 57 today. (photographer Vicky Alhadeff)

Claire Tomalin, British biographer, with her husband Michael Frayn in 2003, is 76 today.

Brian Wilson, American pop singer and musician in London, 2005, is 67 today (Tony Bartolo)

MUSIC PICS from LEBRECHT: THOM YORKE to play solo set at Latitude Festival,

It has just been announced that Thom Yorke will be playing a rare solo gig at this year’s Latitude festival, 16-19 July 2009.

It has just been announced that Thom Yorke will be playing a rare solo gig at this year’s Latitude festival, 16-19 July 2009.

Biffy Clyro have just announced a new UK tour for November

Biffy Clyro have just announced a new UK tour for November

The legendary Puerto Rican artist, Jose Feliciano, will be playing at the Jazz Cafe in October

The legendary Puerto Rican artist, Jose Feliciano, will be playing at the Jazz Cafe in October

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