Birthdays
Mr Dennis Amiss, cricketer, 50; Miss Angela Bonallack, golfer, 56; Miss Fredda Brilliant, sculptor, 85; Mr Francis Ford Coppola, film director and screenwriter, 54; Mr Luca Cumani, racehorse trainer, 44; Professor Graeme Davies, chief executive, Universities' Funding Council, 56; Professor Donald Denman, land economist, 82; Mr Peter Fluck, puppet-maker and satirist, 52; Mr David Frost, broadcaster, 54; Mr James Garner, actor, 65; Lord Glendevon, former government minister, 81; Mr Terence Harrison, chief executive, Rolls- Royce, 60; Vice-Admiral Sir Arthur Hezlet, former submarine commander, 79; Mr Gorden Kaye, actor, 52; Mr Martyn Lewis, newsreader, 48; Mr Cliff Morgan, former head of Outside Broadcasting, BBC TV, 63; Mr Ian Richardson, actor, 59; Mr Andrew Sachs, actor, 63; Mr Ravi Shankar, sitar player, 73; Gp Capt Mary Shaw, former director, Princess Mary's Royal Air Force Nursing Service, 60; Miss Alison Shrubsole, former principal, Homerton College, 68; Mr David J. Williams, chief constable, Surrey, 52; Sir Geoffrey Wilson, former chairman, Race Relations Board, 83; Mr Mark Wolfson MP, 59.
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