Birthdays

Miss Julie Andrews, actress and singer, 58; Admiral of the Fleet Sir Varyl Begg, 85; Mr Moran Caplat, former Glyndebourne administrator, 77; Mr Jimmy Carter, former US president, 69; Mr Roy de Courcy Chapman, headmaster, Malvern College, 57; Cardinal Cahal Daly, Roman Catholic archbishop of Armagh, 76; Mr Sandy Gall, television news presenter, 66; Mr John Gunnell MP, 60; Professor Sir Stuart Hampshire, philosopher, 79; Mr Richard Harris, actor, 60; Major David Jamieson VC, 73; Sir Edwin Jowitt, High Court judge, 64; Mr Walter Matthau, film actor, 73; Mr Peter Nobes, chief constable of West Yorkshire, 58; Dame Kathleen Ollerenshaw, educationist, 81; Professor John Reid, Regius Professor of Medicine and Therapeutics, Glasgow University, 50; Professor Sir Roland Smith, director, Bank of England, 65; Sir Robert Telford, life president of Marconi, 78; Miss Jean Thomas, biochemist, 51; Mr Geoffrey Whitehead, actor, 54; Mr James Whitmore, actor, 72.