Birthdays

Mr Paul Barker, writer and broadcaster, 59; Vice-Admiral Sir Stephen Berthon, 72; Mr Ken Biggs, Headmaster, Chew Valley School, 51; Mr Alan Brooker, chairman, Kode International, and Serif, 63; Miss Antonia Byatt, writer, 58; Mr Charles Causley, poet and broadcaster, 77; Mr Carlo Curley, organist, 42; Sir James Duncan, chairman, Boalloy, 67; Mr Clifford Forsythe MP, 65; Sir Michael Franklin, former senior civil servant, 67; Mr Stephen Fry, actor and writer, 37; Mrs Mildred Gordon MP, 71; Lt-Col Sir John Johnston, former Comptroller, Lord Chamberlain's Office, 72; Mr Richard Meale, composer, 62; The Right Rev Cormac Murphy- O'Connor, Roman Catholic Bishop of Arundel and Brighton, 62; Sir Graham Swanwick, former High Court judge, 88; Mr John Sykes MP, 38; Mr Sam Torrance, golfer, 41; Mr Hugh Wright, Chief Master, King Edward's School, Birmingham, 56.