Birthdays

Miss Maev Alexander, actress, 45; Mr George Allan, headmaster, Robert Gordon's College, Aberdeen, 57; Sir Anthony Alment, obstetrician and gynaecologist, 71; Miss Gillian Ayres, painter, 63; Mr Shelley Berman, comedian, 67; Mr Michael Dickinson, racehorse trainer, 43; Mr Val Doonican, singer, 64; Viscount Dunluce, Keeper of Conservation, Tate Gallery, 58; Air Chief Marshal Sir John Gingell, former Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod, 68; Sir Edgar Keatinge, former MP, 88; Mr Jeremy Kemp, actor, 58; Mr James Michener, novelist, 86; Baroness O'Cathain, managing director, the Barbican Centre, 55; Miss Elaine Padmore, artistic director, Wexford Festival Opera, 46; Brigadier the Hon Dame Mary Pihl, former director of the WRAC, 77; Lord Sherfield, Chancellor Emeritus, Reading University, 89; Mr Robert Simpson, cricketer and manager, 57; Miss Doris Speed, actress, 79; Mr Glen Tetley, ballet choreographer, 67; Mr Frankie Vaughan, singer, 65.