The dresses range from a sleeveless stage gown encrusted with crystals that dates back to 1955 to a chiffon catsuit she wore at her 60th birthday concert at Althorp Park in 1997.

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More recently, Pontypridd's most famous son, Tom Jones, performed at the park for his 65th birthday in 2005.

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But Mr Jones did not pay his first visit to Newport's former Somerton Park home until his seventh birthday in 1924.

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The inquest was told that, Park who died on his 66th birthday, was found with a plastic bag over his head and a cord around his neck.

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Across Manila in sprawling Rizal Park, Estrada told half a million people gathered to mark the birthday of Mike Velarde, charismatic leader of the Catholic movement El Shaddai, that his opponents had it all wrong.

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