Birthdays

Professor Ingrid Allen, neuropathologist, 61; Mr Paul Anka, composer and singer, 52; Mr Peter Bogdanovich, film director, 54; Mr Peter Bottomley MP, 49; Miss Kate Bush, singer and songwriter, 35; Miss Teresa Cahill, opera singer, 49; Sir Edmund Compton, former Ombudsman, 87; Mr Meredith Davies, conductor, 71; Miss Frances de la Tour, actress, 49; Mr John Evans, headmaster, Brentwood School, 60; Sir Anthony Ewbank, High Court judge, 68; Mr Donald Fraser, artist, 64; The Earl of Glasgow (Patrick Boyle), television producer and director, 54; Professor Ian Alistair Gordon, emeritus professor of English Language and Literature, 85; Miss Harriet Harman MP, 43; Mr Richard Johnson, actor and producer, 66; Lord Killanin, author, film producer and Olympics honorary life president, 79; Miss Wyn Knowles, former editor, BBC Woman's Hour, 70; Lord McCarthy, industrial relations consultant, 68; Professor Laurence Martin, director, Royal Institute of International Affairs, 65; Dr Harold Mason, literary critic, 82; Professor Anthony Mellows, Solictor of the Supreme Court, 57; Sir Richard Powell, former senior civil servant, 84; Mrs Anne Ridler, author, 81; Sir Patrick Russell, a Lord Justice of Appeal, 67; Sir Clive Sinclair, chairman, Sinclair Research Ltd., 53; Mr Daley Thompson, athlete, 35; Sir Mathew Thorpe, High Court judge, 55; Dame Marjorie Williamson, former principal, Royal Holloway College, 80; Vice-Admiral Sir Peter Woodhead, deputy Supreme Allied Commander Atlantic, 54.