Birthdays

TODAY: Mlle Anouk Aimee, film actress, 64; Professor John Barron, Master, St Peter's College, Oxford, 62; Mr Christopher Battiscombe, diplomat, 56; Mr Pik Botha, South African Minister of Energy, 64; Air Marshal Sir Charles Broughton, 85; Sir Ross Chesterman, former Warden, Goldsmiths' College, 87; Mr Charles de Chassiron, ambassador to Estonia, 48; The Most Rev Lord Eames, Archbishop of Armagh, and Primate of All Ireland, 59; Miss Sheena Easton, singer, 37; Mr Michael Fish, weatherman, 52; Sir Peter Imbert, former Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, 63; The Right Rev Eric Kemp, Bishop of Chichester, 81; Mr Jack Klugman, actor, 75; Sir Harry Melville, former Principal, Queen Mary College, 88; Mr Igor Oistrakh, violinist, 65; Mr Richard Ralph, Governor of the Falkland Islands, 50; Mr Alan Reynolds, painter and printmaker, 70; The Hon Nicholas Serota, Director, the Tate Gallery, 50; Lord Taylor of Gryfe, former chairman, Morgan Grenfell (Scotland), 84; Sir John Thomson, bank director and former diplomat, 69.

TOMORROW: Miss Ann-Margret, actress, 55; Mr Ian Beer, former Headmaster, Harrow School, 65; Professor Hugh Bentall, cardiologist, 76; Mr Michael Brearley, cricketer, 54; Baroness Carnegy of Lour, educationalist and former councillor, 71; Sir Ivor Cohen, former chairman, Remploy, 65; Commandant Elizabeth Craig-McFeely, former Director, WRNS, 69; Dr Kenneth Kaunda, former President of Zambia, 72; Miss Nicola LeFanu, composer, 49; Sir John Leonard, former High Court judge, 70; Dr Michael Longfield, former Vice-Chancellor, University of Teesside, 68; The Right Rev Morris Maddocks, adviser on the Ministry of Health and Healing to the Archbishops of Canterbury and York, 68; Mr William Moodie, Chief Constable, Fife, 65; Dr Jeffrey Tate, conductor, 53; Mr John Thorn, former Headmaster, Winchester College, 71; Mr Garry Weston, chairman, Associated British Foods, 69; Mrs Helen Williams, former High Mistress, St Paul's Girls' School, 58; Mr Kenneth Williams, Chief Constable, Norfolk, 52; Mr James Wray MP, 58