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Birthdays

Birthdays

Mr Tim Albery, opera director, 47; General Sir Hugh Beach, 76; Sir David Berriman, former chairman, North East Thames Regional Health Authority, 71; Mr Graham Brady MP, 32; Sir Robert Bunyard, former HM Inspector of Constabulary, 69; Dr Sir Clifford Butler, former Vice- Chancellor, Loughborough University of Technology, 77; Professor Henry Cadbury-Brown, architect, 86; Professor Ian Cameron, Provost, University of Wales College of Medicine, 63; The Rev Professor Owen Chadwick, former Master, Selwyn College, Cambridge, 83; Cher, singer and actress, 53; Mr Peter Copley, actor, 84; Flt-Lt John Cruickshank VC, banker, 79; Mr Lynn Davies, long jump athlete, 57; Mr Gregory Dyke, chairman and chief executive, Pearson Television, 52; Mr Keith Fletcher, cricketer, 55; Surgeon Vice-Admiral Sir John Harrison, 78; Lord Hollick, chief executive, United News and Media plc, 54; Mr Simon Keswick, former chairman, Trafalgar House, 56; The Very Rev Professor John McIntyre, theologian, 83; Mr Deryck Murray, former West Indies cricketer, 56; Mr Jeremy Nichols, Headmaster, Stowe School, 56; Lord Shore of Stepney, former MP, 75; Sir William Simpson, former trade union leader, 79; Sir Iain Vallance, chairman, British Telecom, 56; Mr Michael Wills MP, 47; Mr Thomas Woodcock, Norroy and Ulster King of Arms, 48; Captain David Younger, Lord-Lieutenant of Tweeddale, 60.

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