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Sunetra Sarker

16 Sep 2014 00:00:03 GMT

Sunetra Sarker's family originally come from Kolkata in India, but she was born in the West Derby area of Liverpool. She gained a degree in Business and French from Brunel University ... more

Judy Murray

16 Sep 2014 00:00:03 GMT

Judy Murray was born Judy Erskine on 8 September 1959 in Bridge of Allan, Scotland. Her father, Roy Erskine, played football for Hibernian, Stirling Albion and Cowdenbeath ... more

Claudio Abbado

20 Jan 2014 00:00:03 GMT

Claudio Abbado was born in Milan on 26 June 1933. He became one of the world's most acclaimed conductors ... more

Amy Willerton

16 Nov 2013 00:00:03 GMT

Amy Willerton was born in Bristol on August 18, 1992. At 17, she was crowned Miss Bristol and went on to win Miss Great Britain, before reaching the semi-finals of Miss Universe in 2013 ... more

Matthew Wright

16 Nov 2013 00:00:03 GMT

Matthew Wright was born on 8 July 1965 and was brought up in Croydon, where his father worked as a store manager in Woolworths ... more

James Clavell

19 Oct 2013 00:00:03 GMT

James Du Maresq Clavell was born in Sydney, Australia, on October 10, 1924, but was educated in Portsmouth in the south of England ... more

Robert Graves

19 Oct 2013 00:00:03 GMT

Robert Graves, the son of the Irish writer Alfred Graves and Amalia von Ranke, was born in Wimbledon on 24th July, 1895 ... more

Paul Dacre

13 Oct 2013 00:00:03 GMT

Paul Michael Dacre was born on 14 November 1948 Paul Dacre has been editor of the Daily Mail since 1992 ... more

Anton Chekhov

30 Sep 2013 00:00:03 GMT

Anton Pavlovich Chekov was born in Taganrog, Russia on 29 January 1860. In 1876, Chekhov's father Pavel Yegorovitch was declared bankrupt and left for Moscow with the older children ... more

Stephen Hawking

30 Sep 2013 00:00:03 GMT

Stephen William Hawking was born on 8 January 1942 in Oxford. After leaving St Albans school, he graduated from University College, Oxford University and then gained a PhD from Cambridge University ... more

Grace Jones

19 Sep 2013 00:00:03 GMT

Grace Jones was born in Jamaica, and was brought up by her grandparents until, at 12 years old, she joined her parents in New York ... more

Ben Cohen

06 Sep 2013 00:00:03 GMT

Ben Christopher Cohen was born on September 14, 1978, in Northampton. He was a rugby union winger, who made his Test debut for England on 5 February 2000, against Ireland ... more

Susanna Reid

06 Sep 2013 00:00:03 GMT

Susanna Reid was born on December 10, 1970 in Croydon. Susanna Reid's long stint at the BBC has included, from 2003, co-presenting BBC Breakfast ... more

Rachel Riley

06 Sep 2013 00:00:03 GMT

Rachel Annabelle Riley was born on January 11, 1986 in London. Rachel Riley shot to prominence from not being on the public's radar when, in January 2009 ... more

Vanessa Feltz

01 Sep 2013 00:00:03 GMT

Vanessa Jane Feltz was born on February 21 1962. Her father was in the underwear business ... more