Birthdays

Chief Emeka Anyaoku, Secretary- General of the Commonwealth, 60; Air Marshal Sir Alfred Ball, 72; Mr Robert Banks MP, 56; Mr Peter Beardsley, footballer, 32; Dr David Bellamy, botanist, 60; Mr John Boorman, film director, 60; Mr Raymond Briggs, author and illustrator, 59; Mr David Burke, chief constable, North Yorkshire, 54; Mr John Carr, chairman, Countryside Commission of Scotland, 66; Mr Richard Dunwoody, jockey, 29; Sir William Goodhart QC, 60; Mr David Grant, Lord-Lieutenant of County Durham, 71; Miss Dawn Guinness, former headmistress of Felixstowe College, 47; Sir William Harding, former diplomat, 66; Sir James Henderson, former diplomat, 92; Mr Robert Hicks MP, 55; Mr Terence Higgins MP, former Olympic athlete, 65; Mr David Howell MP, 57; Mr John Hume MP, 56; Mr Edward James, director of Tace plc, and former diplomat, 76; Dame Jennifer Jenkins, former chairman, the National Trust, 72; Air Marshal Sir Laurence Jones, Lieutenant-Governor of the Isle of Man, 60; Mr Paul Keating, prime minister of Australia, 49; Sir Godfray Le Quesne, Judge of Courts of Appeal, Jersey and Guernsey, 69; Sir Peter Preston, deputy chairman, CARE Britain, 71; Mr Arnold Cantwell Smith CH, former Secretary-General of the Commonwealth, 78; Sir Michael Stewart, director of Sotheby's and former diplomat, 82; Sir Nigel Strutt, farmer and landowner, 77; Sir Walter Verco, former secretary, Order of the Garter, 86; Sir Ralph Verney, former Vice-Lord Lieutenant of Buckinghamshire, 78; Sir Clive Whitmore, permanent Under-Secretary of State, Home Office, 58; Sir Alan Whittome, former director, Exchange and Trade Relations Dept, IMF, New York, 67.