Birthdays
Mr David Alton MP, 43; Mr Alexander Bernstein, chairman, Granada Group, 58; Mr James Butler, former senior partner, KPMG Peat Marwick, 65; Sir Jack Callard, former chairman, British Home Stores, 81; Mr Macdonald Carey, actor, 81; Lord Constantine of Stanmore, former company chairman, 84; Mr Ry Cooder, folk and blues guitarist, 47; Mr Frank Dobson MP, 54; Mr John Duttine, actor, 45; The Right Rev John Gibbs, former Bishop of Coventry, 77; Professor John Gillingham, neurosurgeon, 78; Earl Haig, painter, 76; Mr Nicholas Hinton, director-general, Save the Children Fund, 52; Sir Leonard Knowles, former Chief Justice of the Bahamas, 78; Mr Mike Love, vocalist, 50; Admiral Sir Raymond Lygo, former chief executive, British Aerospace, 70; Professor Joan Mitchell, political economist, 74; Mr Michael Moore, chairman, NSPCC, 58; Mr Robert Nye, novelist and poet, 55; Mr Ben Okri, author, 35; Sir Philip Powell CH, architect, 73; Sir Roger Tomkys, Master of Pembroke College, Cambridge, 57; Mr David Wall, former director, Royal Academy of Dancing, 48; Miss Enid Wilson, golfer, 84.
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