Birthdays

Mr Anthony Andrews, actor, 46; Mr Ernest Armstrong, former MP, 79; Mr Michael Aspel, television presenter, 61; Sir Charles Ball Bt, deputy chairman, Associated British Ports Holdings, 70; Mr Herbert Barratt, former trade union leader, 89; Lord Boardman, former chairman, National Westminster Bank, 75; Mr Pieter Willem Botha, former President of South Africa, 78; Sir James Bottomley, diplomat, 74; The Hon Sir Richard Butler, former President, National Farmers' Union, 65; Miss Stella Cunliffe, statistician, 77; Mr Keith Dawson, Headmaster, Haberdashers' Aske's School, 57; Mr Brendan Foster, former Olympic athlete, 46; Mr Joe Frazier, heavyweight boxer, 50; Baroness Hamwee, solicitor and local councillor, 47; Baroness Hilton of Eggardon, former Head of Training, Metropolitan Police, 58; Miss Anne Howells, opera and concert singer, 53; Sir Anthony McCowan, a Lord Justice of Appeal, 66; Mr Denys Milne, former director, BP Oil, 68; Mr James Mortimer, former General Secretary of the Labour Party, 73; Mr Des O'Connor, comedian, singer and television presenter, 62; Miss Luise Rainer, actress, 84; Sir John Rennie, former Commissioner-General, UNRWA, 77; Sir Terence Streeton, former diplomat, 64; Sir Swinton Thomas, High Court judge, 63.