Birthdays

Mr Peter Allsop, publisher, 70; Mr John Banham, former director-general, CBI, 54; Mr Marc Bohan, dress designer, 68; Mr Ray Bradbury, writer, 74; Professor Sir Colin Buchanan, town planner, 87; Dr Rob Buckman, broadcaster, 46; M Henri Cartier-Bresson, photographer, 86; Sir Richard Catling, former Commissioner of Police, Kenya, 82; Professor Sir Cyril Astley Clarke, geneticist, 87; Mr Steve Davis, snooker player, 37; Mr Somerset de Chair, former MP, 83; Miss Margaret Douglas, supervisor of Parliamentary Broadcasting, 60; Miss Anne Downey, circuit judge, 58; Mr Derek Fatchett MP, 49; Mr Wilfred Harrison, actor, director and playwright, 69; Mr Max Hebditch, director of the Museum of London, 57; Mr Gerald Long, journalist and former chief executive, Reuters, 71; Mr Donald MacLeary, dancer, 57; The Right Rev Robert Martineau, former Bishop of Blackburn, 81; Sir James Menter, former principal, Queen Mary College, 73; Mr Alun Michael MP, 51; Sir Leo Pliatzky, former senior civil servant, 75; General Norman Schwarzkopf, former US military commander, 60; Mr Karlheinz Stockhausen, composer and conductor, 66; Sir Anthony Tuke, chairman, Savoy Hotel, 74; Mr Mats Wilander, tennis player, 30.