Birthdays

Miss Joan Armatrading, singer, 43; Viscount Bearsted, banker, 82; Sir Nicholas Bonsor MP, 51; Mr Billy Bremner, former Scottish football captain, 51; Mr Beau Bridges, actor, 52; Sir Stanley Brown, former Chairman, CEGB, 83; Sir John Burgh, President, Trinity College, Oxford, 68; Dame Judi Dench, actress, 59; Mr Kirk Douglas, actor, 77; Mr Douglas Fairbanks Jnr, actor, 84; Miss Dawn Freedman, circuit judge, 51; Mr Benny Green, musician, writer and broadcaster, 66; Mr Geoffrey Hankins, former chairman, Fitch Lovell, 67; Mr Robert Hawke, former Prime Minister of Australia, 64; Professor Gabriel Horn, Master, Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, 66; Dr Lionel Kopelowitz, former President, Board of Deputies of British Jews, 67; Mr Ian McIntyre, writer and broadcaster, 62; Sir Michael Mann, a Lord Justice of Appeal, 63; Mr Donny Osmond, singer, 36; Miss Isobel Poole, Sheriff of the Lothian and Borders, 52; Lord Rees QC, former MP and Chief Secretary to the Treasury, 67; Mr David Rider, disc jockey, 53; Mme Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, operatic soprano, 78; Sir Peter Smithers, former MP, 80; Miss Rita Stephen, trade-union leader, 68.