Birthdays

Professor Quentin Bell, painter, sculptor and art historian, 83; Commandant Daphne Blundell, former director, WRNS, 77; Mr Gordon Brand Jnr, golfer, 35; Sir Malcolm Hilbery Chaplin, senior partner, Hilbery Chaplin, 54; Mr Bill Clinton, President of the United States, 47; Lord Cocks of Hartcliffe, former MP, 64; Mr Kenneth Dixon, former chairman, Rowntree plc, 64; Mr Charles Driver, master of Wellington College, 54; Lord Ennals, chairman, United Nations Association, 71; Sir Francis Ferris, High Court judge, 61; Mr Ian Gould, cricketer, 36; Dame Rose Heilbron, former High Court judge, 79; Mr Edmund Heward, former Chief Master of the Supreme Court, 81; Mr Richard Ingrams, editor, the Oldie, 56; Mr Billy J. Kramer, rock singer, 50; Mr Bernard Levin, journalist and author, 65; Mr David Lodge, actor, 72; Mr Hugh Manning, actor, 73; Mr John Marshall MP, 53; Mr Michael Roper, former Keeper of Public Records, 61; Miss Jill St John, actress, 53; Mr Willie Shoemaker, jockey, 62; Mrs Phyllida Stewart-Roberts, superintendent-in-chief, St John Ambulance Brigade, 60; Mr John Mark Taylor MP, Parliamentary Secretary, Lord Chancellor's Department, 52; Mr Georg von Mallinckrodt, executive chairman, Schroders, 63; Surgeon Vice-Admiral Sir James Watt, 79.