Birthdays
Lord Aldington, Chairman, Leeds Castle Foundation, 79; Mr Alistair Burt MP, Under-Secretary, Social Security, 38; Miss Jeanne Crain, actress, 68; Mr Eric Deacon, actor, 43; Dr Carel de Wet, former South African ambassador, 69; The Right Rev Brian Foley, former Roman Catholic Bishop of Lancaster, 83; Miss Margaret Forster, novelist and biographer, 55; Mr Peter Foster, former ambassador, 69; Miss Livia Gollancz, publisher, 73; Sir Eldon Griffiths, former MP, 68; Baroness Hooper, solicitor and former government minister, 54; Mr Ralph Howell MP, 70; Sir Malcolm Innes of Edingight, Lord Lyon King of Arms, 55; Sir Ian McKellen, actor, 54; The Right Rev Michael Mann, former Dean of Windsor, 69; Mr Dillwyn Miles, the Herald Bard, 77; Lord Plummer of St Marylebone, president, Portman Building Society, 79; Mr Geoffrey Robinson MP, 55; Mr Alastair Sharp QC, former circuit judge, 82; Miss Beverley Sills, operatic soprano and former director, New York City Opera, 64; Mr Dave Lee Travis, disc jockey, 48; Professor Sir Frances Vallat QC, Emeritus Professor of International Law, London University, 81; Mr David Wynne, sculptor, 67.
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