Birthdays today: Anya Hindmarch, 46

Anya Hindmarch, pictured, designer, 46; Nicholas Bennett, managing director, Kent Refurbishment, 65; Professor Sir Alasdair Breckenridge, chairman of the emerging science and bioethics advisory committee,77; Jan Peter Balkenende, former prime minister of the Netherlands, 58; Lord (Asa) Briggs, former provost, Worcester College, Oxford, 93; Phil Campbell, guitarist, Motörhead, 53; Peter Carey, writer, Oscar and Lucinda (1988) , 71; Professor Alan Cuthbert, former master of Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge, 82; Lord (Ara) Darzi of Denham, surgeon, 54; Anne Dudley, composer and pop musician, and music producer, Les Misérables (2012) 58; Eagle Eye Cherry, Swedish singer, Save Tonight, 46; Mik Flood, arts consultant, 65; Almudena Grandes, Spanish novelist, The Frozen Heart (2010), 54; Sir