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): Alfred Hui • Alina Rosenberg • Duke Ellington • James Faulkner (cricketer) • Joseph Morelle • Katherine Langford • Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović • Marietta Blau • Mathieu Biron • Maya Deren • Pedro Pires • William II, Landgrave of Hesse

Born in the same month (April 1937): Andrzej Schinzel • Arie Selinger • Circle Repertory Company • Dennis Banks • Edward Fox (actor) • Efi Arazi • Elinor Donahue • Igor Volk • Jan Kaplický • Jill Gascoine • Jiří Dienstbier • Joe Henderson • John White (footballer, born 1937) • Ronald Hamowy • Sepp Mayerl • Seymour Hersh • Simon Brown, Baron Brown of Eaton-under-Heywood • Tony Harrison • Victoria Glendinning