Birthdays

Mr John Alldis, conductor, 64; Mr Noah Beery, actor, 77; Sir Frank Bowden Bt, retired landowner and industrialist, 84; Dame Gillian Brown, former diplomat, 70; Dame Elizabeth Butler-Sloss, a Lord Justice of Appeal, 60; Sir Lawrence Byford, management consultant, 68; Mrs Leila Campbell, former chairman, ILEA, 82; General Sir George Cooper, Chief Royal Engineer, 68; Mr Eddie Fisher, singer, 65; Miss Rhonda Fleming, actress, 70; Professor Alexander Goehr, composer, 61; Sir Alan Hardcastle, head of Government Accountancy Service, 60; Mr Leonard Lickorish, former director-general, British Travel Association, 72; Mrs Barbara Mills QC, Director of Public Prosecutions, 53; Miss Kate O'Mara, actress, 54; Lord Porritt, former Sergeant- Surgeon to the Queen and Governor- General of New Zealand, 93; Mr David Rowland, former chairman, Sedgwick Group, 60; Lord Stewartby, former government minister, 58; Mrs Elizabeth Thomas, literary consultant, 74; Mr Richard Wells, chief constable, South Yorkshire, 53; Miss Jane Wyatt, actress, 82.