Birthdays

Mr Pat Boone, actor, 60; Sir Peter Bristow, former High Court judge, 81; Sir Frederick Corfield QC, former government minister, 79; Lord Cowie, a Senator of the College of Justice in Scotland, 68; Mr Brian Cox, actor and director, 48; Miss Gemma Craven, actress, 44; Lord Deedes, former Editor, the Daily Telegraph, 81; Sir Norman Foster, architect, 59; Mr Bruce George MP, 52; Mr David Gestetner, president, Gestetner, 57; Mr Henry Grunfeld, president, SG Warburg, 90; Sir Christopher Holland, High Court judge, 57; Sir Robert Megarry, former Vice-Chancellor, Supreme Court, 84; Mr Bob Monkhouse, actor and comedian, 66; Air Commodore Ruth Montague, director, WRAF, 55; Brigadier Alastair Pearson, former Lord-Lieutenant of Dunbartonshire, 79; Mr Robert Powell, actor, 50; Mr Jonathan Pryce, actor, 47; Mr Gerald Scarfe, artist and cartoonist, 58; Mr Allan Stewart MP, Under-Secretary, Scottish Office, 52; Professor Sir Michael Thompson, Vice-Chancellor and Principal, Birmingham University, 63; Sir John Tooley, arts consultant, former Director of Covent Garden, 70; Air Commodore Sir Frank Whittle OM, inventor of the jet engine, 87; Mr Edward Woodward, actor, 64.