Benjamin Zephaniah
Benjamin Obadiah Iqbal Zephaniah was a British writer, dub poet, actor, musician and professor of poetry and creative writing. He was included in The Times list of Britain's top 50 post-war writers in 2008. In his work, Zephaniah drew on his lived experiences of incarceration, racism and his Jamaican heritage.
15 April 1958
Born on the same birth date (15 April 1958): John Bracewell • Keith Acton • Memos Ioannou
Born on the same birth day (15 April): Claudius Salmasius • David Omand • Felix Pipes • Fruit Chan • Hans Conried • Heloise (columnist) • Howard Berman • John Lloyd (journalist) • Maria Schicklgruber • Memos Ioannou • Mike Quinn • Nikolaas Tinbergen • Philippe Carbonneau • Seth Rogen • Thomas Szasz • Tom Heaton • Tomas Tranströmer • W. D. Ross • Émile Durkheim
Born in the same month (April 1958): Francesca Woodman • Georgios Kostikos (footballer, born 1958) • Hilmar Örn Hilmarsson • John Bracewell • Keith Acton • Klaus Tafelmeier • Lasantha Wickrematunge • Michelle Pfeiffer • Stuart Adamson • Ulf Wakenius • Yoshito Usui