Today's star birthday is a hero for the present and star for the future. Cristiano Ronaldo is twenty today 
He single-handed won the FA Cup Final for Manchester United last May, and was one of the outstanding players in Euro 2004. And that whilst still a teenager.
1788 Robert Peel, former Home Secretary, invented the police. One of the blocks in our new building is called Peel. The other two are Fry and Seacole
1840 Hiram Maxim inventor of automatic single-barrel rifle. He's buried in West Norwood cemetery. I found his grave on my most recent visit there. It isn't difficult to find. But I'm never in the mood for looking when I go there.
1911 Jussi Bjorling, one of the very greatest singers of the Twentieth Century
1945 Roy 'Chubby' Brown, so-called comedian, who, bizarrely, having changed from his birth name is now more famous for it - Royston Vasey
1948 Sven Goran Eriksson
1989 Jeremy Sumpter You know, I know bug all about him, but he features quite a lot in search requests to this site - perhaps because of this . Whoo, he's legal now. Calm down girls....
