Birthdays

Miss Carol Barnes, television newsreader, 50; Sir Rodger Bell, High Court judge, 55; Miss Jacqueline Bissett, actress, 50; Lt-Gen Sir Derek Boorman, former Chief of Defence Intelligence, 64; Miss Claudette Colbert, actress, 91; Sir John Coulson, former Secretary-General of Efta, 85; Sir George Engle QC, former first Parliamentary Counsel, 68; Baroness Fisher of Rednal, former MEP and local government councillor, 75; Lord Flowers, physicist and former vice-Chancellor, London University, 70; Professor Sir John Gunn, natural philosopher, 78; Sir John Kay, High Court judge, 51; The Hon Colin Moynihan, former MP, 39; The Most Rev George Noakes, former Archbishop of Wales, 70; Mr Colin Pickthall MP, 50; Sir Thomas Risk, former governor of the Bank of Scotland, 72; Mr Robert Sheldon MP, 71; Mr James Stuart- Smith QC, former Judge Advocate General, 75; Professor Sir Malcolm Sykes, anaesthetist, 69; Mr Keith Thompson, vice-Chancellor, Staffordshire University, 62; Lord Weidenfeld, publisher, 75; Air Marshal Sir Peter Wykeham, 79.