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 • David Tindle • Debbie Stabenow • Duane Allen • E. J. Bowen • Eve Plumb • Georg Carl von Döbeln • George Adams (musician) • George McCartney (footballer) • God Shammgod • Harold Urey • Hendrik Nicolaas Werkman • Jay Cutler • Jean-Baptiste Jourdan • Kevin Moore (footballer, born 1958) • Leslie Jordan • Otis Rush • Pedro Pires • Peter Sculthorpe • Polly Samson • Sam Jones III • Sara Errani • Tammi Terrell • Willie Nelson

Born in the same month (April 1937): Arie Selinger • Charlie Thomas (musician) • Colin Powell • Dick Radatz • Gary Peters (baseball) • Jack Nicholson • Jan Kaplický • Jean Redpath • Jiří Dienstbier • Keiko Abe • Momo Kapor • Robert W. Gore • Robin Eames • Sandy Dennis • Sid and Marty Krofft • Tony Barton (footballer) • Tony Harrison