Birthdays
Birthdays
TODAY: Mr Claudio Abbado, conductor, 66; Professor Kenneth Barker, Vice- Chancellor, De Montfort University, 65; Mr Georgie Fame, singer, 56; Dr Alexander Fenton, Director, European Ethnological Research Centre, Edinburgh, 70; Rear-Admiral Sir David Haslam, hydrographer, 76; Professor Ruth Kempson, linguist, 55; Mr Robert Maclennan MP, 63; Sir Peter Miles, former Keeper of the Privy Purse, 75; Miss Eleanor Parker, actress, 77; Professor Sir Alan Peacock, economist, 77; Mr Peter Pike MP, 62; Lord Rawlinson of Ewell QC, former Attorney-General, 80; Mr Philip Sawford MP, 49; Professor Maurice Wilkes, computer scientist, 86; Mr Colin Wilson, writer, 68; Mr David Winnick MP, 66. TOMORROW: The Right Rev Leonard Ashton, Honorary Assistant Bishop, Oxford, 84; Mr David Clelland MP, an Assistant Whip, 56; Mr Alan Coren, writer, journalist and broadcaster, 62; The Most Rev Maurice Couve de Murville, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Birmingham, 70; Professor Sir Michael Dummett, Wykeham Professor Emeritus of Logic, Oxford University, 74; Miss Shirley Ann Field, actress, 61; Vice-Admiral Sir Roy Halliday, 76; Lord Hope of Craighead, a Lord of Appeal in Ordinary, 61; Lord Lang of Monkton, former MP, 59; Mrs Mary McAleese, president of the Irish Republic, 48; Mr Bruce McGowan, former headmaster, Haberdashers' Aske's School, 75; Mr Duncan Robinson, Director, Fitzwilliam Museum, 56; Dr Thurstan Shaw, archaeologist, 85; The Very Rev Alan Warren, Provost Emeritus of Leicester, 67; Mr William Wilson, Chief Constable for Central Scotland, 56; Mr Terence Wynn, MEP, 53.
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