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Birthdays

Tuesday 07 April 1998 23:02 BST
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Birthdays

Mr Kofi Annan, Secretary-General, United Nations, 60; Mr Tony Banks MP, Minister for Sports, 55; Mr Hywel Bennett, actor, 54; Sir Andrew Bowden MP, 68; Mr Graham Burton, High Commissioner to Nigeria, 57; General Sir Anthony Farrar-Hockley, 74; Mr Julian Lennon, rock musician, 35; Air Commandant Dame Alice Lowrey, former Matron-in-Chief, PMRAFNS, 93; Miss Carmen McRae, jazz singer, 76; Mrs Mary Moore, former Principal, St Hilda's College, Oxford, 68; Mr Garth Morrison, chairman, East and Midlothian NHS Trust, former Chief Scout, 55; Miss Virginia O'Brien, actress and singer, 77; Mr Peter Rogers, chief executive, ITC, 57; Sir Michael Sachs, High Court judge, 66; Mr Charles Saunders, former film director, 94; Mr Ian Smith, former prime minister of Rhodesia, 79; Mr Alec Stewart, cricketer, 35; Sir Thomas Thomson, physician and gastroenterologist, 75; Miss Dorothy Tutin, actress, 67; Miss Vivienne Westwood, fashion designer, 57; Mr Ian White, MEP, 53; Baroness Young, chief executive, Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, 49.

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