Michael Billington (critic)

Michael Keith Billington is a British author and arts critic. He writes for The Guardian, and was the paper's chief drama critic from 1971 to 2019. Billington is "Britain's longest-serving theatre critic" and the author of biographical and critical studies relating to British theatre and the arts. He is the authorised biographer of the playwright Harold Pinter (1930–2008).

16 November 1939

Born on the same birth day (16 November): Annely Peebo • Colin Burgess (musician) • Eliška Junková • Girolamo Abos • José Saramago • Logan Mader • Mani (musician) • Nicole Gius

Born in the same month (November 1939): Art Themen • Auberon Waugh • Betty Everett • Dick Smothers • Karel Brückner • Margaret Jay, Baroness Jay of Paddington • Mulayam Singh Yadav • Richard Serra • Russell Means • Yaphet Kotto