Birthdays

TODAY: Mr Jonathan Agnew, cricket commentator, 38; Mr Peter Attenborough, former Headmaster, Charterhouse school, 60; Sir John Beith, former diplomat, 84; Mr Paul Downton, cricketer, 41; Mrs Margaret Dupont, former tennis champion, 80; Dr Christopher Fay, chairman and chief executive, Shell UK, 53; Brigadier Anne Field, former Deputy Controller Commandant, WRACS, 72; Mr Jim Fitzpatrick MP, 46; Mr Trevor Griffiths, playwright, 63; Mr Jeremy Hands, television reporter, 47; Mr Dave Hill, rock guitarist, 46; Earl Jellicoe, President, Royal Geographical Society, 80; Miss Frances Langford, singer and actress, 85; Mr Nick McCarthy, High Commissioner to Cameroon and ambassador to Gabon, 60; Professor David Melville, chief executive, Further Education Funding Council for England, 55; Mr Barry Reamsbottom, Joint General Secretary, Public and Commercial Services Union, 49; Mr Ian Robertson, Director, National Army Museum, 55; Mr Dave Sexton, football manager, 68; Dame Catherine Tizard, former Governor-General of New Zealand, 67; Mr Rudolph Vis MP, 57.

TOMORROW: Professor John Albery, former Master, University College, Oxford, 62; Vice-Admiral Sir Neil Anderson, former Chief of Defence Staff (New Zealand), 71; Miss Jane Asher, actress, 52; Mr Michael Bryant, actor, 70; Mr Roger Corman, film director and producer, 72; Baroness Delacourt- Smith of Alteryn, 82; Miss Agnetha Faltskog, singer, 48; Mr Tom Finney, footballer, 76; Lord Gilbert, Minister for Defence Procurement, 71; Mr Arthur Hailey, writer, 78; Mr Nigel Hawthorne, actor, 69; Sir Douglas Henley, former Auditor-General, 79; Professor Roman Herzog, President of Germany, 64; Professor Denis Lawton, Chairman, Joint Council for the General Certificate of Education, 67; Admiral Sir Michael Livesay, former Chief of Naval Personnel, 62; Professor Donald Lynden-Bell, astronomer, 63; Professor Peter Moore, former Principal, London Business School, 70; Lord Orme, former MP, 75; Mr Ian Pearson MP, 39; Mr Gregory Peck, actor, 82; General Colin Powell, former Chairman, American Joint Chiefs of Staff, 61; Miss Anne Scott-James, writer and journalist, 85.