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): Amy Wright • Anthony Green (musician) • Bob Luman • Brahim Lahlafi • Clark McConachy • Cristina Husmark Pehrsson • Desiré Ecaré • Hermann Grassmann • James Foster (cricketer, born 1980) • Joe Davis • Ryan Hamilton (ice hockey) • Stanley Bruce • Steve Williams (rower) • Steven Defour • Suleiman II of the Ottoman Empire • Tim Lankester • Vigdís Finnbogadóttir
Born in the same month (April 1958): Brian Haner • Detlef Bruckhoff • Fish (singer) • Georgios Kostikos (footballer, born 1958) • Giancarlo Esposito • Graeme Base • Hal Sutton • Henrik Dettmann • Johan Kriek • John Bracewell • John Crichton-Stuart, 7th Marquess of Bute • Kevin Dann • Lyudmila Kondratyeva • Malcolm Marshall • Michelle Pfeiffer • Nigel Slater • Peter Capaldi • Stuart Adamson • Wayne Wigham