Birthdays

Sir Hugh Annesley, chief constable, RUC, 54; Mr Jack Bailey, former secretary, MCC, 63; Sir John Barnes, former diplomat, 76; Sir Christopher Booth, gastro-enterologist, 69; Lt-Gen Sir Robin Carnegie, former director-general of Army Training, 67; Mr Hubert Chesshyre, Chester Herald, 53; Miss Katherine Dunham, choreographer, 83; Sir Roger Falk, vice-president, Sadler's Wells Foundation, 83; Field Marshal Sir Roland Gibbs, Lord-Lieutenant for Wiltshire, 72; Mr Ian Howe, chairman, Kwik Save, 53; Lord Hunt, mountaineer, 83; Mr Bruce Kent, nuclear disarmament activist, 64; Mr Kris Kristofferson, singer, songwriter and actor, 57; Professor Donald Low, president of Clare Hall, Cambridge, 66; Mr Gordon Oakes MP, 62; Mr Alan Osmond, singer, 44; Mr David Owen, chief constable, North Wales, 62; Mr Libor Pesek, conductor, 60; Mr Stuart Randall MP, 55; Miss Esther Rantzen, television presenter, 53; Dame Cicely Saunders, founder of St Christopher's Hospice, 75; Miss Prunella Scales, actress, 61; Mr Alastair Stewart, newscaster and reporter, 41; Miss Meryl Streep, actress, 44; Lord Wakeham, Lord Privy Seal, 61; Mr Douglas Pole Welman, engineer, 91; Professor David Whitteridge, physiologist, 81; Mr Billy Wilder, film director and screenwriter, 87; Miss Diana Young, jockey, 37.