Birthdays

Mr Herb Alpert, musician, 58; Professor Patrick Bateson, provost of King's College, Cambridge, 55; Mr Richard Chamberlain, actor, 58; Mr Sydney Chaplin, actor, 67; Sir Robert Cockburn, former chairman, National Computing Centre, 84; Mr Alan Duncan MP, 36; Mr Don Foster MP, 46; Mr John Fowles, novelist, 67; Miss Shirley Jones, actress, 59; Mr John Kemp-Welch, joint senior partner, Cazenove & Co, 57; Mr Richard Kiley, actor, 71; Sir Pat Lowry, former president, Institute of Personnel Management, 73; Mr Henry Morgan, comedian and entertainer, 78; Sir Derek Pattinson, former secretary-general, General Synod of the Church of England, 63; Air Commodore Helen Renton, former director, WRAF, 62; The Right Rev Dom John Roberts, former Abbot of Downside, 74; Professor Dame Sheila Sherlock, professor of medicine, Royal Free Hospital School of Medicine, 75; Sir Derek Spencer QC MP, Solicitor General, 57; Sir David Steel MP, 55; Lord Trefgarne, former Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department of Trade, 52; Professor Sir Frederick Warner, chemical engineer, 83; Mr Sidney Weighell, former trade union leader, 71; The Earl of Westmorland, director, Sotheby Parke Bernet, 69; Mr Nicholas Winterton MP, 55.