TUESDAY 6 AUGUST 2019
BIRTHDAYS
Actor Barbara Windsor is 82 today (Getty)
Martin Beaumont, businessman and chair of Chester Race Course, 70; Sir Chris Bonington, mountaineer,
writer and photographer, 85; Vice Admiral Sir Ian Corder, lieutenant governor of Guernsey, 59; Michael
Deeley, film producer and honorary president, The British Screen Advisory Council, 87; Bill Emmott,
journalist, author and former editor, The Economist, 63;
Vera Farmiga, actor, 46; Romola Garai, actor, 37; Baron Green of Deddington, former diplomat and co-
founder, Migration Watch UK, 78; Melissa George, actor, 43; Geri Halliwell, singer (Spice Girls), 47;
Chelsee Healey, actor, 31; Professor James Hough, emeritus professor of natural philosophy, University of
Glasgow, 74; Charles Ingram, game show contestant, 56; Spencer Matthews, television personality, 31;
Lesley Mercer, employment relations consultant and former president, Trade Union Congress, 64;
Professor Michael Mingos, chemist and former principal, St Edmund Hall, Oxford, 75;