Birthdays

Mr Martin Amis, novelist, 45; Air Chief Marshal Sir Michael Armitage, former commandant, Royal College of Defence Studies, 64; Miss Pamela Armstrong, television journalist, 43; Mr Sikander Bakht, Pakistani cricketer, 37; Mr Conrad Black, chairman, the Daily Telegraph, 50; Mr Sean Connery, actor, 64; Mr Ross Davidson, actor, 45; Mr Mel Ferrer, actor and director, 77; Sir Malcolm Field, chief executive, WH Smith Group, 57; Dr Desmond Flower, author and former chairman, Cassell & Co, 87; Mr Frederick Forsyth, novelist, 56; Mr Andrew Gardner, broadcaster, 62; Professor Peter Gray, Master, Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, 68; Viscount Hardinge, banker, 38; Mr Van Johnson, actor, 77; Mr Karl Korte, composer, 66; Sir Donald Logan, former diplomat, 77; Lord McGregor of Durris, chairman, Press Complaints Commission, 73; Mr Brian Moore, novelist, 73; Mr Bryan Mosley, actor, 63; Miss Margaret Rothwell, Ambassador to the Ivory Coast, Niger and Burkina, 56; Sir Crispin Tickell, Warden, Green College, Oxford, and vice-president, Royal Geographical Society, 64; Mrs Nancy Trenaman, former principal, St Anne's College, Oxford, 75; Mr James Wallace MP, 40; Professor Anne Warner, physiologist, 54.