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): Amelia Best • Andre Agassi • Andre Russell • Charles Nodier • Christina Shakovets • Dick Chrysler • Duane Allen • Federico Castelluccio • George McCartney (footballer) • Jean Rochefort • Jean-Georges Noverre • Joachim Andersen (composer) • Johnny Miller • Lee Dong-gook • Mallory Swanson • Michelle Pfeiffer • Micol Ostow • Sophie of Saxony, Duchess of Pomerania • Zizi Jeanmaire
Born in the same month (April 1937): Bella Akhmadulina • Ben Zinn • Billy Dee Williams • Efi Arazi • Ferdinand Piëch • Valerie Singleton