Birthdays
Lord Alport, former MP and Deputy Speaker, House of Lords, 81; Mr George Benson, jazz guitarist, 50; Mr Richard Bethell, Lord-Lieutenant of Humberside, 71; Mr Derek Bok, former president of Harvard University, 63; Miss Sheila Cameron QC, Vicar-General of the Province of Canterbury, 59; The Right Rev Robert Craig, former moderator of the Church of Scotland, 76; Air Marshal Sir Denis Crowley-Milling, 74; Mr Brian Hanrahan, broadcaster, 44; Mr David Ingman, chairman, British Waterways Board, 65; The Very Rev Lawrence Jackson, Provost of Blackburn, 67; Dr Harry Kay, former Vice-Chancellor, Exeter University, 74; Mr Werner Klemperer, actor, 74; Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber, composer, 45; Mr Peter McEvoy, golfer, 40; Mr Karl Malden, actor, 80; M Marcel Marceau, mime artist, 70; Lavinia, Duchess of Norfolk, former Lord-Lieutenant of West Sussex, 77; Mr Charles Pick, former managing director, Heinemann, 76; Sir Lynden Pindling, former prime minister of the Bahamas, 63; Sir Bryan Roberts QC, magistrate, 70; Mr Paul Rogers, actor, 76; Mr Paul Schockemohle, show-jumper, 48; Mr William Shatner, actor, 62; Mr Stephen Sondheim, composer and lyricist, 63; Lord Stokes, former president, British Leyland, 79; Miss Mary Tamm, actress, 43; Mr Leslie Thomas, author, 62; Admiral Sir Richard Thomas, Black Rod and Serjeant-at-Arms, House of Lords, 61; Miss Fanny Waterman, pianist and teacher, 73; Professor David Watson, director, Brighton University, 44.
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