Birthdays
Mr Geoffrey Bayldon, actor, 70; Mr Alan Butcher, cricketer, 40; Miss Hazel Counsell, circuit judge, 63; Mr Hunter Davies, author and broadcaster, 58; Mr Gerald Durrell, author and naturalist, 69; Mr Tom Kiernan, rugby player, 55; Mr Ian La Frenais, screenwriter and producer, 57; Mr Malcolm MacDonald, footballer and manager, 44; Mr Ross Norman, squash champion, 35; The Viscount of Oxfuird, a Deputy Speaker, House of Lords, 60; Sir John Page, former chairman, National Ports Council, 79; Sir Alastair Pilkington, president of Pilkington plc, 74; Professor Keble Sykes, Emeritus Professor of Physical Chemistry, Queen Mary's College, London, 73; Lord Taylor of Hadfield, founder of the Taylor Woodrow Group, 89; Air Commodore the Hon Sir Peter Vanneck, former MEP, 72; Miss Helen Worth, actress, 43; Mr Will Wyatt, managing director, BBC Network Television, 52.
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