February 22: Actress Jennifer Lopez and husband Marc Anthony, twins – a boy and a girl, Max and Emme.

March 16: Actress Halle Berry and boyfriend Gabriel Aubry, a daughter, Nahla Ariela.

April 7: England cricketer Andrew "Freddie" Flintoff and wife Rachael Wools, a son, Rocky.

May 26: Status Quo rocker Rick Parfitt and wife Lyndsay Whitburn, twins Lily Rose and Tommy Oswald.

June 10: Radio One DJ Edith Bowman and boyfriend Tom Smith, a son, Rudy Brae.

July 12: Hollywood stars Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt, twins – a boy and a girl, Knox Leon and Vivienne Marcheline.

August 16: Take That's Mark Owen and girlfriend Emma Ferguson, a son, Elwood Jack.

September 25: Newsreader Natasha Kaplinsky and husband Justin Bower, a son, Arlo.

October 21: Actress Billie Piper and husband Laurence Fox, a son, Winston James.

November 2: Comedian Adam Sandler and wife Jackie, a daughter, Sunny Madeline.

December:Ugly Betty star Eric Mabius and wife Ivy Sherman, a son, Rylan Jaxson.

Deaths
January 11: Sir Edmund Hillary, 88, New Zealand mountaineer and explorer and the first to reach the summit of Mount Everest, after a brief illness, 88.

February 5: Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, transcendental meditation guru and spiritual healer to the Beatles, 91.

March 19: Sir Arthur C Clarke, 90, British science fiction author, inventor and futurist, heart failure.

April 5: Charlton Heston, 84, Oscar-winning actor, pneumonia.

May 28: Beryl Cook, 81, British painter.