Birthdays
Birthdays
Mr Geoffrey Archer, television newscaster, 52; Dr John Armitage, Principal, College of St Hild and St Bede, Durham, 64; Lord Clydesmuir, former Lord- Lieutenant for Lanarkshire, 79; Mr Michael Crick, television journalist, 38; Baron Guy de Rothschild, banker, 87; Mr Malcolm Fraser , former Prime Minister of Australia, 66; Mr David Hunt MP, 54; Mr Terry Lightfoot, bandleader and jazz musician, 61; Mr Leonard Manasseh, architect, 80; Dr Leonard Mullins, authority on rubber, 78; Mr Dipak Nandy, Head of Equal Opportunities, Social Services Department, Nottinghamshire County Council, 60; Mr Andrew Neil, former Editor, the Sunday Times, 47; Miss Rosalind Plowright, soprano, 47; Mr Harold Robbins, novelist, 80; Mrs Mary Robinson, President of the Irish Republic, 52; Mr Leo Sayer, singer, 48; Professor Sir David Smith, President, Wolfson College, Oxford, 66; Mr Robert Welch, silversmith, 67; Professor Stanley Wells, Shakespearean scholar, 66; Mr Desmond Wilcox, radio and television presenter, 65; The Right Rev Mark Wood, former Bishop of Ludlow, 77; Mr James Woodhouse, director, ISIS East, 63.
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