Birthdays

TODAY: Mr Dana Andrews, actor, 85; Dr Jack Birks, former managing director, BP, 74; Mr Alister Campbell, rugby player, 34; Lord Colwyn, dental surgeon and jazz trumpeter, 52; Miss Valentina Cortese, actress, 70; Sir James Crane, former Chief Inspector of Constabulary, 73; Mrs Christine Crawley, MEP, 44; Sir John Dick QC, former Sheriff Principal of Glasgow and Strathkelvin, 74; Mr Richard Gibson, actor, 39; Professor Dame June Lloyd, paediatrician, 66; Miss Zena Marshall, actress, 67; Dr James Merriman, former chairman, National Computing Centre, 79; Mr James Moorhouse, MEP, 70; Col Patrick Porteous VC, 76; Sir Christopher Prout QC, MEP, 52; Professor Ralph Raphael, organic chemist, 73; Mr Lawrence Rowe, cricketer, 45; Mr JD Salinger, novelist, 75; Lord Swansea, marksman, 69.

TOMORROW: Mr David Bailey, photographer and film director, 56; Sir Richard Bayliss, former Physician to the Queen, 77; Mr Leopold Brook, former chairman, Simon Engineering, 82; Mr Christopher Campbell, chairman, British Shipbuilders, 58; The Duke of Devonshire, former Chancellor, Manchester University, 74; Professor Sir Kingsley Dunham, former director, Institute of Geological Sciences, 84; Mr David Graveney, cricketer, 40; Mr Walter Harrison, former MP, 73; Mr Piers Merchant MP, 43; Lord Nelson of Stafford, former chairman, GEC, 77; Mr Bruce Pattullo, Governor, Bank of Scotland, 56; Sir Charles Reece, former research and technology director, ICI, 67; Mr Edmund de Rothschild, director, NM Rothschild and Sons, 78; Air Marshal Sir Ernest Sidey, 81; Sir Keith Thomas, President, Corpus Christi College, Oxford, 61; Sir Michael Tippett, composer, 89; Dame Rachel Waterhouse, former chairman, Consumers' Association, 71; Mr Robert Wilmot, chairman, Wilmot Enterprises Ltd, 49; The Right Rev Kenneth Woollcombe, Assistant Bishop, Worcester, 70.

Sir Peter Quennell

A service of thanksgiving for Peter Quennell will be held at 11.30am on 11 January 1994, at St James's Church, Piccadilly, London W1.