Birthdays

Mr Eric Bristow, darts champion, 37; Sir Robin Cater, former chairman, Distillers Company, 75; Mr Johann Cruyff, football manager, 47; Mr David de Peyer, director-general, Cancer Research Campaign, 60; Miss Ella Fitzgerald, singer, 76; Lord Gladwyn, author and former diplomat, 94; Sir Francis Graham-Smith, former Astronomer Royal, 71; Lord Hayter, a Deputy Chairman, House of Lords, 83; The Earl of Lichfield, photographer, 55; Mr Ian McCartney MP, 43; Lady Marre, former chairman, BBC and IBA Central Appeals Advisory Committee, 74; Surgeon Vice-Admiral Sir Godfrey Milton-Thompson, 64; Mr Al Pacino, actor, 54; Mr William Roache, actor, 62; Mr David Shepherd, artist, 63; Lord Skidelsky, professor of Political Economy, Warwick University, 55; Mrs Veronica Sutherland, Assistant UnderSecretary of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, 55.