John Mortimer

Sir John Clifford Mortimer was a British barrister, dramatist, screenwriter and author. He is best known for short stories about a barrister named Horace Rumpole, adapted from episodes of the TV series Rumpole of the Bailey also written by Mortimer.

21 April 1923

Born on the same birth day (21 April): Arianne Hartono • Charles Grodin • Easley Blackwood Jr. • Ebiet G. Ade • Geoffrey Palmer (politician) • Herbert Wetterauer • Humphry Repton • James Morrison (actor) • Jean-Baptiste Biot • Joe McCarthy (baseball manager) • John Putnam Chapin • Marcel Boussac • Max Weber • Mikel Oyarzabal • Odilo Globocnik • Phillip Longman • Princess Isabella of Denmark • Reni Santoni • Robert Smith (musician)

Born in the same month (April 1923): Aaron Spelling • Arch A. Moore Jr. • Bettie Page • Carolyn Cassady • Daniel Hoffman • Dolph Briscoe • Edward Mulhare • Ernest Mandel • Floyd Simmons • Gene Reynolds • George J. Maloof Sr. • Harry Reasoner • Herb Thomas • Irene Lieblich • Irvin Kershner • Kagamisato Kiyoji • Leonard W. Levy • Michael V. Gazzo • Mother Angelica • Nguyễn Văn Thiệu • Peter Kane Dufault • Robert DePugh • Roger Gaillard (historian)