Birthdays

Lt-Gen Sir Peter Beale, Surgeon General, Ministry of Defence, 60; Professor Alexander Boksenberg, director, Royal Greenwich Observatory, 58; Major Sir David Butter, Lord-Lieutenant of Perth and Kinross, 74; M Rene Clement, film director, 81; Mr James Conlon, conductor, 44; Mr Pat Eddery, jockey, 42; Mr John Fraser, actor, 63; Sir William Fraser, Principal, Glasgow University, 65; Mr Peter Graves, actor, 68; Sir Peter Harrop, former senior civil servant, 68; Mr Alex Higgins, snooker player, 45; Mr Patrick Kavanagh, former Deputy Commissioner, Metropolitan Police, 71; Professor Walter Ledermann, mathematician, 83; Mr Kenny Lynch, singer and actor, 55; Mr Wilson Pickett, singer, 53; Professor Sir Gordon Robson, anaesthetist, 73; Mr Alan Sapper, founder and chief executive, Interconnect AV, 63; Mr Nicholas Snowman, chief executive and general director, South Bank Centre, 50; Mr Ingemar Stenmark, ski champion, 38; Professor Eric Sunderland, Principal, University College of North Wales, 64; Mr John Updike, novelist, 62; Professor JZ Young, zoologist, 87.