Birthdays

Lord Aberdare, Deputy Speaker, House of Lords, 75; Miss Eileen Atkins, actress, 60; Mr James Bolam, actor, 56; Lt-Gen the Hon Sir Thomas Boyd-Carpenter, deputy Chief of Defence Staff, 56; Mr Tom Graveney, cricketer, 67; Professor Harold Hanham, Vice-Chancellor, Lancaster University, 66; The Right Rev David Konstant, Roman Catholic Bishop of Leeds, 64; Mr Neil MacGregor, director, National Gallery, 48; Sir John Peel, former MP, 82; Lord Perry of Walton, former vice-chancellor, The Open University, 73; Mr Enoch Powell, former MP, 82; Lord Richardson, former president, General Medical Council, 84; Sir Ralph Robins, chairman, Rolls-Royce, 62; Miss Helen Ryan, actress, 56; Mr John Salthouse, actor, 43; Professor Erich Segal, classicist and screenwriter, 57.