Birthdays

Miss Audrey Barker, author, 76; Mr Stephen Byers MP, 41; Air Vice Marshal Sir Bernard Chacksfield, 81; Mr Frank Chamberlain, chairman, Test and County Cricket Board, 69; M Claude Cheysson, politician, 74; The Hon Alan Clark, former government minister, 66; The Right Rev Roderic Coote, former Bishop of Colchester, 79; Mr Liam Cosgrave, former leader of the Fine Gael party in Ireland, 74; Mr Beverley Cross, playwright, 63; Lord Davidson, a Senator of the College of Justice in Scotland, 65; Mr Peter Davison, actor, 43; Mr Stanley Donen, film director and producer, 70; Mr Edward Fox, actor, 57; Professor Albert Halsey, sociologist, 71; Sir Jeremiah Harman, High Court judge, 64; Mr Seamus Heaney, poet, 55; Mr Gary Kasparov, chess champion, 31; Mr Howard Keel, singer and actor, 75; Canon John Kelly, former Principal, St Edmund Hall, Oxford, 85; Mr Jonjo O'Neill, racehorse trainer, 42; Dame Margaret Price, operatic singer, 53; Sir Stephen Roberts, former chairman, Milk Marketing Board, 79; Miss Barbara Roche MP, 40; Mr Christopher Strauli, actor, 48; Lord Wedderburn of Charlton, Professor Emeritus of Commercial Law, London School of Economics, 67; Miss Eudora Welty, novelist, 85; Lt-Gen Sir James Wilson, former chief executive, Tobacco Advisory Council, 73; Miss Marjorie Yates, actress, 53.