Birthdays

Mr Arnold Allen, former chairman, UK Atomic Energy Authority, 69; Mr Gordon Banks, footballer, 56; Mr David Bedford, athlete, 44; Professor Sir Roy Calne, surgeon and immunologist, 63; Mr Anthony Cripps QC, 80; Mr Bo Diddley, singer, composer and guitarist, 65; General Sir David Fraser, former UK representative to Nato, 73; Mr Archibald Hamilton MP, Minister of State for the Armed Forces, 52; Lord Harvington, former Deputy Speaker, House of Commons, 86; Sir John Houghton, former chief executive, Meteorological Office, 62; Air Chief Marshal Sir Edmund Hudleston, former Commander-in- Chief, Allied Forces, Central Europe, 85; Dame Rosalinde Hurley, microbiologist, 64; Mr Mark Kaplan, violinist, 40; The Right Rev Peter Nott, Bishop of Norwich, 60; Sir Albert Robinson, former High Commissioner in the UK for Rhodesia and Nyasaland, 78; Mr Nick Skelton, show jumper, 36; Lord Terrington, former member of the Stock Exchange, 78; Miss Tracey Ullman, actress and comedienne, 34; Sir David Willcocks, former Director, Royal College of Music, 74; Mr Clifford Williams, former Associate Director, Royal Shakespeare Company, 67.