Birthdays

Miss Jenny Abramsky, editor, News and Current Affairs, BBC Radio, 48; Miss June Allyson, actress, 77; Mr Christopher Booker, writer, journalist, 57; Mr Richard Caldicot, actor, 86; Sir Colin Chandler, chief executive, Vickers plc, 55; Mr Shura Cherkassky, pianist, 83; Mr Joseph Cooper, pianist and broadcaster, 82; Sir Zelman Cowen QC, former Provost of Oriel College, Oxford, 75; Professor Sir Andrew Derbyshire, architect, 71; Professor Harold Dexter, organist, 74; Air Chief Marshal Sir Peter Fletcher, 78; Dr Mark Girouard, architectural historian, 63; Lord Glenarthur, former government minister, 50; Mr Brian Hoban, former Head Master of Harrow School, 73; Mr Terence Hodgkinson, former Director, Wallace Collection, 81; Mr Clive James, critic and television presenter, 55; Mr Thomas Keneally, author, 59; Mr George Kynoch MP, 48; Lt-Gen Sir Derek Lang, 81; Miss Yaltah Menuhin, pianist, 73; Sir John Stocker, a former Lord Justice of Appeal, 76; Maj-Gen Julian Thompson, 60; Miss Jayne Torvill, ice dance champion, 37; The Most Rev Desmond Tutu, Archbishop of Cape Town, 63; Sir Colin Walker, chairman, East Anglian Regional Health Authority, 60; Mr Graham Yallop, cricketer, 42; Mr Yo Yo Ma, cellist, 39.