Birthdays

Mr Robert Atkins MP, Minister of State, Northern Ireland, 47; Mr William Burroughs, novelist, 79; Mr Red Buttons, actor and comedian, 74; Maj-Gen Sir Simon Cooper, Master of the Queen's Household, 57; Mr Ian Findlay, former chairman, Lloyd's, 75; Lord Gibson, former chairman, the National Trust, 77; Miss Susan Hill, novelist and playwright, 51; Professor Sir Alan Hodgkin, former Master, Trinity College, Cambridge, 79; The Hon Douglas Hogg MP, Minister of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, 48; General Sir Geoffrey Howlett, chairman, Leonard Cheshire Foundation, 63; Mr Denis Kennedy, chairman, Honeywell, 58; Wing Commander Roderick Learoyd VC, 80; Mr David Martin, MP, 48; Sir Andrew Morritt, High Court judge, 55; Mr Frank Muir, writer and broadcaster, 73; Mr John Nettleton, actor, 64; Professor Adam Neville, former principal and Vice-Chancellor, Dundee University, 70; Miss Charlotte Rampling, actress, 47; The Very Rev Colin Semper, Canon of Westminster, 55; Mrs Clare Short MP, 47; Mr Michael Simpson-Orlebar, former ambassador to Mexico, 61; Mr Arthur Sulzberger, former chairman and publisher of the New York Times, 67; Sir Rodney Sweetnam, former orthopaedic surgeon to the Queen, 66; Mr David Turner, cricketer, 44; Lord Williams of Mostyn, a Recorder of the Crown court, 52; Sir Leslie Young, chairman, Hoskins Ltd, 68.