Birthdays

Mr Mohamed Al-Fayed, chairman of Harrods and the House of Fraser, 61; Mr Nicholas Bomford, Headmaster, Harrow, 55; Sir Wilfrid Bourne QC, former Permanent Secretary, Lord Chancellor's Office, 72; Dr Robert Burchfield, former editor of the Oxford English Dictionary Supplement, 70; Mr John Bury, theatre, opera and film designer, 69; Mr Michael Collins, clarinettist, 32; Sir Kenneth Corfield, former chairman, STC, 70; Mrs Mairead Corrigan-Maguire, joint Nobel Peace Prize winner, 50; Mr Michael Craig, actor and playwright, 65; Baroness Cumberlege, Under-Secretary, Department of Health, 51; Mr Richard Du Cann QC, a Recorder of the Crown Court, 64; Lord Dunboyne, former circuit judge, 77; Sir John Eccles, physiologist, 91; Air Commodore the Hon Timothy Elworthy, Captain of the Queen's Flight, 56; The Right Rev Henry Halsey, former Bishop of Carlisle, 75; Brigadier Rita Hennessy, former matron-in-chief, QARANC, 61; Mr John Hopkins, playwright, 63; Senor Federico Mayor Zaragoza, Director-General, Unesco, 60; Mr Alan Milburn MP, 36; Miss Nina Milkina, concert pianist, 75; Miss Patricia Rawlings, MEP, 55; Mr Mordecai Richler, novelist and playwright, 63; Lord Rix, actor and former Secretary-general of Mencap, 70; Mr Roger Sims MP, 64; Mr Neville Trotter MP, 62; Sir William van Straubenzee, former MP, 70; Lord Vinson, chairman, Institute of Economic Affairs, 63.