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): Bob McClure • Harold Shapero • Harry Payne Whitney • Hirohito • Mary Petty • Mike Babcock • Oliver Ellsworth • Otis Rush • Rodney Frelinghuysen

Born in the same month (April 1937): Billy Dee Williams • Circle Repertory Company • David Mills (cricketer) • Elinor Donahue • Jack Nitzsche • Joseph Estrada • Richard Perham • Robert W. Gore • Sepp Mayerl • Simon Brown, Baron Brown of Eaton-under-Heywood • Tony Barton (footballer) • Victoria Glendinning