Birthdays

Mr Russ Abbott, comedian, 47; Miss Lauren Bacall, actress, 70; Mr Tommy Carberry, jockey, 53; Mr George Chakiris, actor and dancer, 61; Mr Ken Coates, MEP, 64; Lord Grimthorpe, soldier and company director, 79; Mr Charles Haughey, former Irish prime minister, 69; Lord Henderson of Brompton, former Clerk of the Parliaments, 72; Mr Ian Horsbrugh, principal, Guildhall School of Music and Drama, 53; Mr Andy Irvine, rugby player, 43; The Very Rev William Johnston, extra Chaplain to the Queen in Scotland, 73; Mr B. B. King, guitarist and blues singer, 69; Mr Lee Kuan Yew, former prime minister of Singapore, 71; Sir John Megaw, former Lord Justice of Appeal, 85; Sir John Page, former MP, 75; Baroness Pike, former MP, 76; Dame Sheila Quinn, former president, Royal College of Nursing, 74; Lord Ryder of Eaton Hastings, former chairman, International Publishing Corporation, 78; Mrs Steve Shirley, founder director, FI Group, 61; Mr David Smeeton, radio news correspondent, 58; Mr Mickey Stewart, cricketer, 62; Mr Peter Townsend, golfer, 48; Lord Walton of Detchant, former Warden of Green College, Oxford, 72; Mr David Wilshire MP, 51.