Birthdays
Mr Martin Amis, novelist, 44; Air Chief Marshal Sir Michael Armitage, former commandant, Royal College of Defence Studies, 63; Miss Pamela Armstrong, television newsreader, 42; Mr Sikander Bakht, Pakistani cricketer, 36; Mr Conrad Black, chairman, the Daily Telegraph, 49; Mr Sean Connery, actor, 63; Mr Ross Davidson, actor, 44; Mr Mel Ferrer, actor and director, 76; Sir Malcolm Field, group managing director, WH Smith & chairman, Naafi, 56; Dr Desmond Flower, author and former chairman, Cassell & Co, 86; Mr Frederick Forsyth, novelist, 55; Mr Andrew Gardner, broadcaster, 61; Professor Peter Gray, Master of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, 67; Mr Van Johnson, conductor, 76; Mr Karl Korte, composer, 65; Sir Donald Logan, former diplomat, 76; Lord McGregor of Durris, chairman, Press Complaints Commission, 72; Mr Brian Moore, novelist, 72; Mr Bryan Mosley, actor, 62; Miss Margaret Rothwell, ambassador to the Ivory Coast, Niger and Burkina, 55; Sir Crispin Tickell, Warden of Green College, Oxford, and president, Royal Geographical Society, 63; Mrs Nancy Trenaman, former principal, St Anne's College, Oxford, 74; Mr James Wallace MP, 39; Professor Anne Warner, physiologist, 53.
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