Birthdays

Birthdays

Mr Anthony Andrews, actor, 48; Mr Ernest Armstrong, former MP, 81; Miss Hazel Aronson QC, Sheriff of Lothian and Borders at Edinburgh, 50; Mr Michael Aspel, television presenter, 63; Sir Charles Ball Bt, company chairman, 72; Mr Herbert Barratt, former trade union leader, 91; Lord Boardman, former chairman, National Westminster Bank, 77; Mr Pieter Willem Botha, former president of South Africa, 80; Sir James Bottomley, former diplomat, 76; The Hon Sir Richard Butler, former president, National Farmers' Union, 67; Miss Stella Cunliffe, statistician, 79; Mr Keith Dawson, Headmaster, Haberdashers' Aske's School, 59; Mr Brendan Foster, former Olympic athlete, 48; Mr Joe Frazier, heavyweight boxer, 52; Baroness Hamwee, solicitor and local councillor, 49; Baroness Hilton of Eggardon, former Head of Training, Metropolitan Police, 60; Miss Anne Howells, opera and concert singer, 55; Sir Anthony McCowan, a Lord Justice of Appeal, 68; Mr Denys Milne, former managing director, BP Oil, 70; Mr James Mortimer, former general secretary of the Labour Party, 75; Mr Des O'Connor, comedian, singer and television presenter, 64; Miss Luise Rainer, actress, 86; Sir John Rennie, former Commissioner-General, UNRWA, 79; Sir Terence Streeton, former diplomat, 66; Sir Swinton Thomas, a Lord Justice of Appeal, 65.