Birthdays

TODAY: General Sir John Akehurst, former Commandant, Staff College, Camberley, 64; General Sir John Archer, former Commander- in-Chief, UK Land Forces, 70; Professor Arnold Beckett, pharmacist, 74; Roland Boyes MP, 57; Alec Carlile MP, 46; Miss Annette Crosbie, actress, 60; Mr Howard Davies, Director-General, CBI, 43; Sir James Dunnett, former Permanent Under-Secretary of State, Ministry of Defence, 80; Dr Kenneth Edwards, Vice-Chancellor, Leicester University, 60; Mr Stephen Gibbs, former chairman, Turner and Newall, 74; Lord Greene of Harrow Weald, former trade union leader, 84; Mr Steve Hackett, guitarist, 44; Mr Paul Hamlyn, publisher, 68; Miss Christine Hancock, General Secretary, Royal College of Nursing, 51; Mr Anthony Howard, journalist, 60; Mr Simon MacCorkindale, actor, 42; Sir Robin Mackworth-Young, Librarian-Emeritus to the Queen, 74; Lord Morison, a Senator of the College of Justice in Scotland, 63; Lord Moyola, former Prime Minister of Northern Ireland, 71; Mr John Raisman, former chairman, Shell UK, 65; Sir Richard Rougier, High Court judge, 62; Mr Peter Snape MP, 52; The Hon Nicholas Soames MP, Parliamentary Secretary, Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, 46; Mr Peter Temple-Morris MP, 56; Sir Aubrey Trotman-Dickenson, former Principal, University of Wales College of Cardiff, 68; Mr Gundappa Viswanath, cricketer, 45; Lord Wigoder QC, 73; Mr Alexander Wilson, librarian, 73; Mr Franco Zeffirelli, film director, 71.

TOMORROW: Mr Michael Attenborough, executive producer, Royal Shakespeare Company, 44; Dr David Atterton, former chairman, Foseco Minsep, 67; Mr David Banks, Editor, Daily Mirror, 46; Miss Caroline Blakiston, actress, 61; Mr Liam Brady, footballer, 38; Professor Derek Burke, Vice-Chancellor, University of East Anglia, 64; Mr John Butcher MP, 48; Miss Jacqueline Clarke, actress, 52; Dr John Clayton, former Apothecary to HM Household, Windsor, 73; Miss Margaret Collins, former Matron-in- Chief, QARNNS, 67; Mr Gareth Davies, chairman and chief executive, Glynwed International, 64; Mr Brian Deacon, actor, 45; Miss Eileen Farrell, soprano, 74; Baroness Flather, chairman, UK Policy Group, 60; Mr Peter Gabriel, singer and songwriter, 44; Dr David Hessayon, horticultural author, 66; Lord Lewis of Newnham, Warden, Robinson College, Cambridge, 66; Mr John McAllion MP, 46; Miss Kim Novak, actress, 61; Mr Leonard Pascoe, cricketer, 44; Lord Peyton of Yeovil, former government minister, 75; Lord Pym, former government minister, 72; Mr Oliver Reed, actor, 56; Miss Margaretta Scott, actress, 82; Mr George Segal, actor, 60; M Jean-

Jacques Servan-Schreiber, author, engineer and politician, 70; Mr Donald Sumpter, actor, 51; Dr Donald Sykes, former Principal, Mansfield College, Oxford, 64.