Mary Ann Sieghart

Mary Ann Corinna Howard Sieghart is an English author, journalist, radio presenter and former assistant editor of The Times, where she wrote columns about politics, social affairs and life in general. She has also written a weekly political column in The Independent. Her best-selling book, The Authority Gap: Why Women Are Still Taken Less Seriously Than Men, and What We Can Do About It, was published by Transworld/Doubleday in July 2021.

6 August 1961

Born on the same birth day (6 August): Bulstrode Whitelocke • Cecil Howard Green • David Robinson • Diána Póth • Ever Carradine • Garrett Weber-Gale • Jean Dessès • John Graves (author) • Louise de La Vallière • Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues • Mark Hughes (rugby league, born 1954) • Norman Granz • Paul Hellyer • Petrobey Mavromichalis • Randy DeBarge • Richard Bennett (governor) • Ton Scherpenzeel • Vic Dickenson • Wilmer Flores

Born in the same month (August 1961): Barack Obama • Deepak Tijori • Jared Harris • Jeff Parrett • Joanne Whalley • John Key • Mark Curry (British TV presenter) • Rikki Rockett • Ron Klain • Yolanda Adams