Birthday Pictures 26 June 09

Claudio Abbado, Italian conductor is 76 today. Claudio Abbado conducting the Lucerne Festival Orchestra and London Symphony Chorus performing Mahler’s Symphony No. 3 at the BBC Proms 2007 (photographer Chris Christodoulou)

Hugues Cuenod, the Swiss tenor in 1982, is 107 today . (photographer Nigel Luckhurst)

Chris Isaak ,American singer and songwriter, is 53 today. Performing at the Hammersmith Apollo, London, UK, 20 April 2007. (photographer Stephanie Methven)

Colin Wilson, English author, at his home in Cornwall, April 1963, is 78 today. (photographer Derek Bayes)

Lebrecht birthday pictures 25 June 2009

Sir Peter Blake, British painter and illustrator, is 77 today. (photographer Anne Katrin Purkiss)

George Michael, British singer, songwriter and producer, with Andrew Ridgeley, founder of the Wham band, is 46 today. (photographer Joe Bangay)

Nicholas Mosley, British author, in 2005, is 86 today. (photographer Drew Farrell)

Birthday pictures 24 June 2009

Jeff Beck, British rock and jazz guitarist, in 1999, is 65 today. (photographer Jon Stark)

Mick Fleetwood, British drummer and member of rock band Fleetwood Mac in Los Angeles, is 62 today. (photographer L. McAfee )

George Gruntz, Swiss jazz musician, at Montreux Jazz festival, June 1970, is 77 today. (photographer Jazzsign)

Birthday pictures 23 June 2009

Kim Begley, British tenor, is 57 today. Performing as Parsifal in Richard Wagner’s opera ‘Parsifal’ performed at English National Opera, 1999. Directed by Nikolaus Lehnhoff. (photographer Billy Rafferty)

Nicholas Cleobury, British conductor, at St. Andrew’s Hall, Norwich, September 2006, is 59 today. (Graham Salter)

James Levine, American conductor and pianist, conducting the Boston Symphony Orchestra 2007, is 66 today. (photographer Chris Christodoulou)

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)

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.

Birthday pictures 18 June, 2009

Peter Donohoe, British pianist, playing the piano May 1993, is 56 today. (photographer Thierry Martinot)

Paul McCartney, British singer and songwriter, playing the guitar in a Melbourne hotel room on 22 June 1964, is 67 today.

Delia Smith, TV chef who is also a director of Norwich City Football Club, is 68 today. She is seen here at the division one play offs in the Millenium stadium cheering on the team during the match against Birmingham City. May 2002.

Birthday Pictures 17th June 2009

John Amis, classical music critic and broadcaster at Aldeburgh Festival, Suffolk, June 2007, is 87 today. (photographer Nigel Luckhurst)

Sir Edward Downes, British conductor, is 85 today. Conductor Sir Edward Downes in discussion with Anthony Pappano, conductor and Music Director of The Royal Opera, after the dress rehearsal of ‘Lucia di Lammermoor’ November 2003. (photographer Laurie Lewis)