Birthdays

TODAY: Mr Thomas Allen, operatic baritone, 50; Mrs Beryl Cook, painter, 68; Miss Louise Croll, ambassador to Costa Rica, 59; Mr Brian Donohue MP, 46; Mr Ted Edgar, showjumper, 56; Mr John Entwistle, rock guitarist, 50; Miss Judy Geeson, actress, 46; Professor Chevalier Herbert Gilles, authority on tropical medicine, 73; Mr David Hamilton, disc jockey, 55; Mr Christopher Hogwood, harpsichordist, 53; Mr Niall Macdermot QC, international jurist, 78; Major John Makgill Crichton Maitland, Lord-Lieutenant of Renfrewshire, 69; The Very Rev Michael Mayne, Dean of Westminster, 65; Mr Frederick Moorfoot, former chairman, Kodak, 78; Mr Norman Morrice, choreographer, 63; Lord Nolan, a Lord of Appeal in Ordinary, 66; Mr Neville Ovens, former Chief Constable, Lincolnshire, 56; Mr Arnold Palmer, golfer, 65; General Sir Antony Read, former Governor of the Royal Hospital, Chelsea, 81; Sir Peter Reynolds, former chairman, Ranks Hovis McDougall plc, 65; Mr Denis Richards, historian, 84; Dame Betty Ridley, former Third Church Estates Commissioner, 85; Mr Bill Rogers, golfer, 43; Sir Peter Singer, High Court judge, 50; Dr Brian Smith, chairman, BAA, 66; Sir Robert Smith, chairman, Alliance and Second Alliance Trust, 67; Sir Rupert Speir, former MP, 84; Professor Carel Weight, painter and art teacher, 86; Mr Robert Wise, film director and producer, 80; Miss Fay Wray, film actress, 87.

TOMORROW: Professor Norman Ashton, pathologist, 81; Mr Franz Beckenbauer, former West German football captain and manager, 49; Sir Austin Bide, honorary president of Glaxo, 79; Dame Margaret Booth, High Court judge, 61; Mr Paul Cole, racehorse trainer, 53; Sir Bernard Feilden, architect, 75; Mr Eddie George, Governor of the Bank of England, 56; Lord Gibson-Watt, former government minister, 76; Mr Michael Lambert, racehorse trainer, 50; Mr Richard Linley, jockey, 40; Lord Marlesford, political consultant, 63; Sir Patrick Mayhew QC MP, Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, 65; Miss Jessica Mitford, author, 77; Mr Andrew Rowe MP, 59; Mr Barry Sheene, racing motor cyclist, 44; The Right Rev John Taylor, former Bishop of Winchester, 80; Mr Roger Uttley, rugby player, 45.