Birthdays

Sir Jeremy Child Bt, actor, 50; Mr John Dankworth, bandleader and jazzman, 67; Mr Geoffrey Dear, HM Inspector of Constabulary, 57; The Very Rev George Earle SJ, Superior of Jesuit Students in South Africa, 69; Sir Douglas Falconer, former High Court judge, 80; Mr Mike Hall MP, 42; The Right Rev Colin James, Bishop of Winchester, 68; General Sir Garry Johnson, Commander-in-Chief, Allied Forces Northern Europe, 57; Dr Michael Kilborn, cricketer, 32; Miss Sophia Loren, actress, 60; Sir Duncan McDonald, former chairman, Northern Engineering Industries, 73; Miss Anne McIntosh, MEP, 40; Professor Robert McMinn, anatomist, 71; Miss Jane Manning, soprano, 56; Sir Stuart

Milner-Barry, former Treasury official and chess player, 88; Sir David Nicolson, former pro-chancellor, Surrey University, 72; Miss Christine Oddy, MEP, 39; The Right Rev Kenneth Riches, former Bishop of Lincoln, 86; Mr Jose Rivero, golfer, 39; Mr Eric Sayers, former chairman, Duport, 78; Mr Alan Simpson MP, 46; Sir John Whitehead, former ambassador to Japan, 62.