Birthdays

Birthdays

Mr Eric Bristow, darts champion, 38; Sir Robin Cater, former chairman, Distillers Company, 76; Mr Anthony Christopher, former trade union leader, 70; Mr Johann Cruyff, football manager, 48; Mr David de Peyer, Director- General, Cancer Research Campaign, 61; Dr Thomas Faber, chairman, Geoffrey Faber, 68; Miss Ella Fitzgerald, singer, 77; Lord Gladwyn, author and former diplomat, 95; Sir Francis Graham-Smith, former Astronomer Royal, 72; Lord Hayter, a Deputy Chairman, House of Lords, 84; The Earl of Lichfield, photographer, 56; Mr Ian McCartney MP, 44; Mr David Machin, Under Treasurer, Gray's Inn, 61; Lady Marre, former chairman, BBC and IBA Central Appeals Advisory Committee, 75; Surgeon Vice- Admiral Sir Godfrey Milton- Thompson, 65; Mr Buster Mottram, tennis player, 40; Miss Marian Norrie, circuit judge, 55; Mr Al Pacino, actor, 55; Miss Helen Paling, circuit judge, 62; Mr William Roache, actor, 63; Mr David Shepherd, artist, 64; Lord Skidelsky, Professor of Political Economy, Warwick University, 56; Mrs Veronica Sutherland, Assistant Under-Secretary of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, 56; Mr Bjorn Ulvaeus, former singer with Abba, 50.