Birthdays

Princess Michael of Kent, 48; Mrs Margaret Beckett MP, 50; Mr Frank Bough, television presenter, 60; Mr Lloyd Bridges, actor, 80; Dr Neil Cossons, Director of the Science Museum, 54; Lord Dacre of Glanton, historian and former Master of Peterhouse, Cambridge, 79; Miss Jane Drabble, assistant managing director, BBC Television, 46; Baroness Elliot of Harwood, former chairman, National Union of Conservative and Unionist Associations, 90; Mr Anthony Forbes, joint senior partner, Cazenove & Co, 55; Professor Clifford Formston, veterinary surgeon, 86; Professor Percy Garnham, medical protozoologist, 92; Sir John Junor, former editor of the Sunday Express, 74; Mr Melvin J. Lasky, former editor and publisher of Encounter, 73; Lord Lever of Manchester, former government minister, 79; Professor Peter Maitlis, Professor of Inorganic Chemistry, Sheffield University, 60; Miss Margaret O'Brien, actress, 56; Lord Simon of Glaisdale, former Lord of Appeal in Ordinary, 82; Mr Thomas Skeffington-Lodge, former MP, 88; Mr John Terraine, writer, 72; Sir John Wordie, barrister, 69.