Birthdays

Mr Intikhab Alam, former Pakistan cricketer, 51; Mr Lew Ayres, actor, 84; Mr Terry Butcher, footballer, 34; Mr William Camps, former Master of Pembroke College, Cambridge, 82; Mr Donald Carr, former cricketer, 66; Sir Ellis Clarke, former president, Trinidad and Tobago, 75; Sir Bayard Dill, barrister and former Bermudan senior public servant, 87; Mr Thomas Gould VC, 78; Mr Max Hastings, editor-in-chief, the Daily Telegraph, 47; Mr Roy Hattersley MP, 60; Mr Noel Johnson, actor, 76; Mr Nigel Kennedy, violinist, 36; Sir Andrew Maitland-Makgill-Crichton, former vice-chairman, Port of London Authority, 82; Mrs Frances Morrell, former leader, ILEA, 55; Miss Hildegarde Neff, actress, 67; Sir Patrick O'Connor, former Lord Justice of Appeal, 78; Mrs Bridget Prentice MP, 40; Mr Simon Raven, author and playwright, 65; Professor Elfyn Richards, aeronautics authority, 78; Mrs Joan Ruddock MP, 49; Dame Maggie Smith, actress, 58; The Right Rev William Westwood, Bishop of Peterborough, 67; The Hon Geoffrey Wilson, chairman, Delta plc, 63.