Birthdays

Lord Alport, former MP and Deputy Speaker, House of Lords, 82; Mr George Benson, jazz guitarist, 51; Mr Richard Bethell, Lord-Lieutenant of Humberside, 72; Miss Sheila Cameron, QC, Vicar-General, Province of Canterbury, 60; The Very Rev Robert Craig, former moderator of the Church of Scotland, 77; Air Marshal Sir Denis Crowley-Milling, 75; Mr Brian Hanrahan, broadcaster, 45; Mr David Ingman, chairman, British Waterways Board, 66; The Very Rev Lawrence Jackson, Provost Emeritus of Blackburn, 68; Dr Harry Kay, former Vice-Chancellor, Exeter University, 75; Mr Werner Klemperer, actor, 75; Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber, composer, 46; Mr Peter McEvoy, golfer, 41; Mr Karl Malden, actor, 81; M Marcel Marceau, mime artist, 71; Lavinia, Duchess of Norfolk, former Lord-Lieutenant of West Sussex, 78; Mr Charles Pick, former managing director, Heinemann, 77; Sir Lynden Pindling, former prime minister of the Bahamas, 64; Sir Bryan Roberts QC, magistrate, 71; Mr Paul Rogers, actor, 77; Mr Paul Schockemohle, show-jumper, 49; Mr William Shatner, actor, 63; Mr Stephen Sondheim, composer and lyricist, 64; Professor Sir Colin Spedding, chairman, UK Register of Organic Food Standards, 69; Lord Stokes, former president, British Leyland, 80; Miss Mary Tamm, actress, 44; Mr Leslie Thomas, author, 63; Admiral Sir Richard Thomas, Black Rod and Serjeant-at-Arms, House of Lords, 62; Professor Leslie Turnberg, President, Royal College of Physicians, 60; Miss Fanny Waterman, pianist and teacher, 74; Professor David Watson, director, Brighton University, 45.