Jill Paton Walsh
Gillian Honorine Mary Herbert, Baroness Hemingford,, known professionally as Jill Paton Walsh, was an English novelist and children's writer. She may be known best for her Booker Prize-nominated novel Knowledge of Angels and for the Peter Wimsey–Harriet Vane mysteries that continued the work of Dorothy L. Sayers.
29 April 1937
Born on the same birth day (29 April): Bre Blair • Christina Shakovets • George McCartney (footballer) • Georges Ernest Boulanger • Mary Theresa Ledóchowska • Mathieu Biron • Michel Bussi • Otis Rush • Rennie Fritchie, Baroness Fritchie • Thomas Beecham • William Randolph Hearst
Born in the same month (April 1937): Ben Zinn • Circle Repertory Company • Harvey Quaytman • Jean Redpath • Keiko Abe • Richard Perham • Saddam Hussein • Sepp Mayerl • Tom Veivers • Valerie Singleton