Birthdays
Birthdays
Mr Scobie Breasley, jockey, 82; Miss Teresa Brewer, actress, 66; Lord Briggs, historian, 76; Mr Peter Carey, writer, 54; Sir Charles Cunningham, former senior civil servant, 91; Mr Tim Collins MP, 33; Professor Alan Cuthbert, Master, Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge, 65; Sir Reay Geddes, former chairman, Dunlop, 85; Professor Robert Goodden, architect, 88; Sir James Gowans, former deputy chairman, Medical Research Council, 73; The Right Rev Robert Halliday, former Bishop of Brechin, 65; Mr Robin Hanbury-Tenison, explorer and author, 61; Mr David Hatch, former adviser to the Director- General, BBC, 58; Sir Lenox Hewitt, industrialist, 80; Sir Michael Hopkins, architect, 62; Lord Kirkhill, former Lord Provost of Aberdeen, 67; Mr David Leach, potter, 86; Mr Calum Macdonald MP, 41; Dr Tony O'Reilly, chairman, president and chief executive, H.J.Heinz, 61; Mr Richard O'Sullivan, actor, 53; Mr John Padovan, chairman, Mabey Holdings, 59; Mrs Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, writer, 70; Mr William Pybus, former chairman, AAH Holdings, 74; Mr Christopher Saunders, Headmaster, Lancing College, 57; Miss Elizabeth Soderstrom, soprano, 70; Mr Clive Soley MP, 58; Mr David Tomlinson, actor, 80; Sir Alan Traill, former Lord Mayor of London, 62; Maj-Gen Henry Woods, Vice Lord-Lieutenant, North Yorkshire, 73.
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