Birthdays

The Right Rev Ronald Bowlby, former Bishop of Southwark, 67; Sir Philip Dowson, architect, 69; Mr Ted Drake, footballer, 81; Mr George Galloway MP, 39; Sir David Gillmore, Head of the Diplomatic Service, 59; Miss Eydie Gorme, singer, 61; Miss Katharine Hamnett, fashion designer, 46; Mr Trevor McDonald, television news presenter, 54; Madonna (Louise Vernon Ciccione), rock singer, 35; Sir Donald Maitland, chairman, Health Education Authority, 71; Mr Thomas Maschler, publisher, Jonathan Cape Children's Books, 60; Mr John Standing (Sir John Leon, Bt), actor, 59; Professor William St Clair Symmers, pathologist, 76; Sir James Taylor, mining engineer, 91; Mr Jeff Thomson, cricketer, 43; Mr Arthur Walsh, chairman, National Transcommunications, 67; Sir Geoffrey Warnock, former principal, Hertford College, Oxford, 70; Sir Jack Wellings, former chairman, the 600 Group, 76; Franz Welser-Most, Music Director, the London Philharmonic, 33; Professor Brian Woledge, authority on the French language, 89.