Birthdays

Birthdays

Miss Moira Anderson, singer, 56; Mr Spencer Batiste MP, 51; Professor Robert Buchanan, founder, Centre for the History of Technology, Bath, 66; Mr A.R. Dawson, rugby player, 64; Miss Beatrice de Cardi, archaeologist, 82; Sir John Dellow, former deputy commissioner, Metropolitan Police, 65; Miss Margaret Drabble, novelist, 57; The Earl of Dundee, former Government Whip, 47; The Very Rev Kerry Goulstone, Dean of St Asaph Cathedral, 60; Mr David Hare, playwright, 49; Miss Rose Hill, actress and singer, 82; Sir Jack Jacob QC, former Senior Master of the Supreme Court, 88; Sir Andrew Kirkwood, High Court judge, 52; Mr Phil Neale, cricketer, 42; Professor Sir Rudolf Peierls, physicist, 89; Mr Nigel Rees, author, 52; Viscount Rochdale, former company chairman, 90; Mr Jeffrey Rooker MP, 55; Mrs Elizabeth Shaw, executive director and secretary, Charity Commission, 50; Mr Richard Stone, portrait painter, 45; Sir Arthur Vick, former Vice-Chancellor, Queen's University of Belfast, 85.