A Centenarian

 It's not every day that you get to mark the centenary of someone still living – but today is the 100th birthday of the still very much alive broadcaster, actor and DJ Pete Murray (born Peter Murray James). His father was a Great War veteran who was injured in a gas attack at the Somme, and Murray claims to have been an unhappy and intensely shy boy. However, he got into RADA, despite a complete lack of experience, and even survived an attempt by the school's director to throw him out. According to Wikipedia, his early acting roles included a bit part in The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, but by 1950 his career as a disc jockey had begun, with a five-year stint at Radio Luxemburg ('fabulous 208'), during which he discovered Bill Haley's 'Rock Around the Clock', played it four times in 15 minutes and thereby became (probably) the first man to introduce European audiences to rock'n'roll. Many successful years on BBC radio and television followed, until in 1983 the Corporation cancelled all his radio shows and Murray walked out, to start again with LBC. He is still broadcasting, and is reported to have presented a show today, on his 100th birthday. 
In a memorable appearance on the BBC's Breakfast Time back in 1983, reviewing the papers, he declared that 'a vote for Labour is a vote for communism. May God have mercy on your soul if you don't vote Conservative.' Wow.