TWO famous people with a Somerset connection will be blowing out the candles on their birthday cakes today, Saturday, March 7.

Sir Viv Richards, one of the greatest batsman ever, who played for Somerset and the West Indies, scores 63.

And intrepid explorer Ranulph Fiennes, from Exmoor, scales the heights of 71.

Plenty of actors are celebrating birthdays today - they include Rachel Weisz, who is 45; Bryan Cranston, 59; Brandon T. Jackson, 31; Joy Tanner, 49; Jeff Hondley, 45; and Peter Sarsgaard, 44.

Comedian Wanda Sykes is 51, while Fifty Shades of Grey author E. L. James is 52.

Former tennis star Ivan Lendl is 54 and singer Paul Cattermole 37.