SUNDAY 25 AUGUST 2019BIRTHDAYS
Singer and songwriter Elvis Costello is 65 today (Getty)
Keith Allan, high commissioner to Mauritius, 51; Martin Amis, novelist, 70; Anjum Anand, food writer
and television presenter, 48; Jonathan Ashley-Smith, conservationist and former head of conservation,
Victoria & Albert Museum, 73; John Badham, film director, 80; Lord Black of Crossharbour, former
publisher and chief executive officer, Hollinger International, 75; Paul Blomfield MP, shadow Brexit
minister, 66; Marshall Brickman, screenwriter, 80; David Briggs, lord-lieutenant of Cheshire,
73; Alexandra Burke, singer-songwriter and actor, 31;
Tim Burton, film director, producer and screenwriter, 61; Sir Sean Connery, actor, 89; Elvis
Costello (Declan MacManus), singer and songwriter, 65; Billy Ray Cyrus, singer-songwriter, 58; Geoff
Downes, keyboardist (The Buggles), 67; Frederick Forsyth, novelist, 81; Will Gompertz, arts editor,
BBC, 54; Rob Halford, singer and songwriter (Judas Priest), 68; Tom Hollander, actor, 52; Howard
Jacobson, novelist and critic, 77; Karl Korte, composer, 91; Blake Lively, actor, 32;