Birthdays
The Princess Royal, 44; Mr Robert Bolt, playwright, 70; Sir Charles Carter, economist, 75; Mr John Childs, cricketer, 43; Mr Jim Dale, actor, 59; Mr Edmund Dell, former government minister, and chairman, Prison Reform Trust, 73; Mr Hans Feibusch, mural painter and sculptor, 96; Mr James Flecker, Headmaster, Ardingly College, 55; Mr Lukas Foss, composer, 72; Miss Jenny Hanley, actress, 47; Dame Wendy Hiller, actress, 82; Miss Rita Hunter, soprano, 61; Lord Ingrow, former Lord-Lieutenant of West Yorkshire, 77; Miss Joan Jefferson, headmistress, St Swithun's School, Winchester, 47; Mr Jack Lynch, former Prime Minister of the Irish Republic, 77; Sir Patrick Nairne, Chancellor, Essex University, 73; Sir Kenneth Newman, former Commissioner, Metropolitan Police, 68; Maj-Gen Kenneth Perkins, 68; Mr Oscar Peterson, jazz pianist, 69; Sir Oliver Popplewell, High Court judge, 67; Professor Sir Leon Radzinowicz, criminologist, 88; Lady Jean Rankin, Extra Woman of the Bedchamber to the Queen Mother, 89; Mr Martin Redmond MP, 57; Sir Michael Rutter, child psychiatrist, 61; Air Vice-Marshal John de Milt Severne, Extra Equerry to the Queen, 69; Sir Johan Steyn, a Lord Justice of Appeal, 62; The Hon William Waldegrave MP, Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, 48; Sir Kenneth Warren, engineering consultant, 68; Air Vice-Marshal Sir William Wratten, 55.
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