Birthdays

Mr Pat Boone, actor, 59; Sir Peter Bristow, former High Court judge, 80; Sir Frederick Corfield QC, former government minister, 78; Mr Brian Cox, actor and director, 47; Miss Gemma Craven, actress, 43; Lord Deedes, former editor, the Daily Telegraph, 80; Sir Norman Foster, architect, 58; Mr Bruce George MP, 51; Mr David Gestetner, president, Gestetner, 56; Mr Henry Grunfeld, president, SG Warburg, 89; Sir Christopher Holland, High Court judge, 56; Sir Robert Megarry, former Vice-Chancellor, the Supreme Court, 83; Mr Bob Monkhouse, comedian, 65; Air Commodore Ruth Montague, director, WRAF, 54; Brigadier Alastair Pearson, former Lord-Lieutenant of Dunbartonshire, 78; Mr Robert Powell, actor, 49; Mr Jonathan Pryce, actor, 46; Mr Gerald Scarfe, artist and cartoonist, 57; Mr Allan Stewart MP, Under-Secretary, Scottish Office, 51; Professor Sir Michael Thompson, Vice-Chancellor, Birmingham University, 62; Sir John Tooley, arts consultant, former director of Covent Garden, 69; Air Commodore Sir Frank Whittle, inventor of the jet engine, 86; Mr Edward Woodward, actor, 63.