Birthdays
TODAY: Mr Nigel Aspinall, croquet player, 49; Mr Roger Bone, ambassador to Sweden, 51; Professor Gustav Born, pharmacologist, 74; Professor Patricia Clarke, biochemist, 76; Sir Michael Davies, former High Court judge, 74; Miss Kay Dick, author, 80; Sir Leslie Fielding, former Vice- Chancellor, Sussex University, 63; Miss Sally Gunnell, athlete, 29; Miss Diane Keen, actress, 49; Professor Sir Robert Kilpatrick, pharmacologist, 69; Mr Michael Pickard, chairman, London Docklands Development Corporation, 63; Viscount Ridley, Lord-Lieutenant for Northumberland, 70; Lord Scarman, former Lord of Appeal, 84; Mr Anthony Stevens, veterinary surgeon, 69; Miss Wendy Taylor, sculptor, 50; Mr Mikis Theodorakis, composer, 70; Lord Weinstock, managing director, GEC, 71.
TOMORROW: Professor Ingrid Allen, neuropathologist, 63; Mr Paul Anka, composer and singer, 54; Mr Peter Bogdanovich, film director, 56; Mr Peter Bottomley MP, 51; Miss Kate Bush, singer and songwriter, 37; Miss Teresa Cahill, opera singer, 51; Mr Meredith Davies, conductor, 73; Miss Frances de la Tour, actress, 51; Mr John Evans, former Headmaster, Brentwood School, 62; Sir Anthony Ewbank, former High Court judge, 70; Mr Donald Fraser, artist, 66; The Earl of Glasgow (Patrick Boyle), television producer and director, 56; Miss Harriet Harman MP, 45; Mr Richard Johnson, actor and producer, 68; Lord Killanin, author, film producer and honorary life president, International Olympic Committee, 81; Miss Wyn Knowles, former editor, BBC Woman's Hour, 72; Lord McCarthy, industrial relations consultant, 70; Professor Sir Laurence Martin, director, Royal Institute of International Affairs, 67; Professor Anthony Mellows, Solicitor of the Supreme Court, 59; Sir Richard Powell, former senior civil servant, 86; Mrs Anne Ridler, author, 83; Sir Patrick Russell, a Lord Justice of Appeal, 69; Sir Kerry St Johnston, chairman, NM Funds Management Europe, 64; Mr Arnold Schwarzenegger, actor, 48; Sir Clive Sinclair, chairman, Sinclair Research Ltd, 55; Mr Stan Stennett, actor, 68; Mr Daley Thompson, athlete, 37; Sir Mathew Thorpe, High Court judge, 57; Dame Marjorie Williamson, former Principal, Royal Holloway College, 82; Vice-Admiral Sir Peter Woodhead, former Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Atlantic, 56.
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