Birthdays

Queen Ingrid of Denmark, 85; Mr Gordon Adam, MEP, 61; Sir Dirk Bogarde, actor and author, 74; The Hon George Bruce, portrait and landscape painter, 65; Professor Lord Butterfield, former Master, Downing College, Cambridge, 75; Sir Robert Clarke, chairman, Thames Water, 66; Mr Richard Eyre, artistic director, Royal National Theatre, 52; Mr Robert Harris, actor, 95; Mr James Hawley, Lord-Lieutenant of Staffordshire, 58; Professor Peter Hennessy, Professor of Contemporary History, Queen Mary and Westfield College, London, 48; Mr Peter Holwell, Principal, London University, 59; Lord Hutchinson of Lullington QC, former Recorder of the Crown Court, 80; Lord Judd, former director of Oxfam, 60; Mr Neil Kinnock, Member of the European Commission, 53; Mr Raymond Lister, artist and author, 76; Mr Martin Neary, Organist and Master of the Choristers, Westminster Abbey, 55; Mr Michael Parkinson, broadcaster, 60; Dr Derek Roberts, Provost, University College, London, 63; Professor Merton Sandler, Professor of Chemical Pathology, Royal Postgraduate Medical School, 69; Sir John Stephenson, former Lord Justice of Appeal, 85; Mr Richard Stilgoe, entertainer, lyricist and musician, 52; Mr Peter Wilmot-Sitwell, former chairman, S.G. Warburg, 60.