Birthdays

King Baudouin of the Belgians, 62; Mr John Baxter, headmaster, Wells Cathedral School, 53; Professor Malcolm Bradbury, academic and novelist, 60; Lord Charteris of Amisfield, former provost of Eton, 79; Miss Joan Cross, operatic soprano, 92; Mr Kevin Curran, cricketer, 33; Mr J. Paul Getty II, philanthropist, 60; Mr Peter Gill, associate director, Royal National Theatre, 53; Miss Margaret Hampshire, former principal, Cheltenham Ladies' College, 74; Miss Dianne Hayter, chief executive, European Parliamentary Labour Party, 43; Mr Herbert Hughes, former principal, Ruskin College, Oxford, 78; Lord Jenkin of Roding, former MP, 66; Mr Elia Kazan, author and film director, 83; Sir Ian Kennedy, High Court judge, 62; Sir Douglas Lovelock, First Church Estates Commissioner, 69; Professor Sir Brian Pippard, Emeritus Professor of Physics at Cambridge, 72; Sir Neil Shields, management consultant, 73; Mr Bruce Yardley, cricketer, 45.