Birthdays

Prince William of Wales, 11; Mr Joseph Bamford, founder, JC Bamford Excavators, 77; Mr Matthew Banks MP, 32; Miss Benazir Bhutto, former prime minister of Pakistan, 40; Brigadier Helen Cattanach, former director, QARANC, 73; Professor Anna Davies, philologist, 56; Mr John Edrich, cricketer, 56; Mr Wally Fawkes, cartoonist and jazz musician, 69; Maj-Gen Robert Goldsmith, 86; Miss Catharine Hoey MP, 47; Sir Bernard Ingham, former chief press secretary to the Prime Minister, 61; Mr Gerald Kaufman MP, 63; Professor Patricia Lindop, radiobiologist, 63; Sir Michael Marshall MP, 63; Mr Peter Marshall, former Commissioner, City of London Police, 63; Sir John Morgan, diplomat, 64; Sir Edwin Nixon, deputy chairman, National Westminster Bank, 68; Mr Malcolm Rifkind QC, MP, Secretary of State for Defence, 47; Miss Jane Russell, actress, 72; Mr Maurice Saatchi, chairman, Saatchi & Saatchi, 47; Mlle Francoise Sagan, novelist, 58; Mr Maurice Warren, chief executive, Dalgety, 60.