Birthdays
Professor Sir Norman Anderson QC, 84; Mr Michelangelo Antonioni, film director, 80; Air Marshal Sir David Atkinson, director-general, Chest, Heart and Stroke Association, 68; Mr Gene Autry, western actor, 81; Lord Avebury (Eric Lubbock), Liberal peer, 64; Sir John Balcombe, a Lord Justice of Appeal, 67; Mr Robert Benton, film director, 60; Mr Richard Bonynge, conductor, 62; Mr Chris Broad, cricketer, 35; Mr Sebastian Coe, MP and athlete, 36; Mr Gareth Davies, rugby player, 36; Mr John Dawes, rugby player and coach, 52; Miss Anita Ekberg, actress, 61; Professor Dorothy Emmet, philosopher, 88; Miss Greer Garson, actress, 84; Mr Lance Gibbs, cricketer, 58; Mr Carl Giles, cartoonist, 76; Miss Patricia Hodge, actress, 46; Professor Reginald Jones, natural philosopher, 81; Mr Henry Keswick, chairman, Matheson & Co, 54; Mr Jimmy Knapp, NUR general secretary, 52; Mr Stanley Kramer, film producer, 79; Mr Jerry Lee Lewis, rock and roll singer, 57; Mr Murray McLaggan, Lord-Lieutenant of Mid Glamorgan, 63; Mr Rhodri Morgan MP, 53; Canon Paul Oestreicher, 61; Sir Michael Partridge, Permanent Secretary, Department of Social Security, 57; Miss Lizabeth Scott, actress, 70; Mr David Steele, cricketer, 51; The Right Rev Richard Third, Bishop of Dover, 65; Mr James Villiers, actor, 59; Mr Lech Walesa, president of Poland, 49.
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