Birthdays

Mr Dave Allen, comedian, 58; Mr Vladimir Ashkenazy, pianist, 57; Surgeon Vice-Admiral Sir Dick Caldwell, 85; Mr David Capel, cricketer, 31; Professor Gordon Conway, Vice-Chancellor, Sussex University, 56; Baroness Cox, Deputy Speaker, House of Lords, 57; Mr John Cummings MP, 51; The Dalai Lama, 59; Professor Arthur Dickens, historian, 84; Mr Peter Glossop, operatic baritone, 66; Sir Timothy Harford, chairman, Kwik Save, 62; Miss Geraldine James, actress, 44; Mr Jeff King, jockey, 53; Miss Janet Leigh, actress, 67; Mr William McCall, former General Secretary, Institution of Professional Civil Servants, 65; Mr John Makepeace, furniture designer, 55; Mr Elliot Morley MP, 42; Professor Barry Nicholas, former Principal, Brasenose College, Oxford, 75; Vice-Admiral Sir Arthur Pedder, 90; Miss Mary Peters, athlete, 55; The Right Rev Simon Phipps, former Bishop of Lincoln, 73; Sir Jonathon Porritt Bt, ecologist, 44; Mr Sylvester Stallone, actor and film director, 48; Mr Robin Wilson, Headmaster, Trinity School, Croydon, and chairman of the Headmasters' Conference, 62.