Birthdays

Mr David Alton MP, 42; Mr Alexander Bernstein, chairman, Granada Group, 57; Mr James Butler, senior partner, KPMG Peat Marwick, 64; Sir Jack Callard, former chairman, British Home Stores, 80; Mr Macdonald Carey, actor, 80; Lord Constantine of Stanmore, former company chairman, 83; Mr Ry Cooder, folk and blues guitarist, , 46; Mr Frank Dobson MP, 53; Mr John Duttine, actor, 44; The Right Rev John Gibbs, former Bishop of Coventry, 76; Professor John Gillingham, neurosurgeon, 77; Earl Haig, painter, 75; Mr Nicholas Hinton, director-general, Save the Children Fund, 51; Sir Leonard Knowles, former Chief Justice of the Bahamas, 77; Admiral Sir Raymond Lygo, former chief executive, British Aerospace, 69; Professor Joan Mitchell, political economist, 73; Mr Michael Moore, chairman, NSPCC, 57; Mr Robert Nye, novelist and poet, 54; Mr Ben Okri, author, 34; Sir Philip Powell, architect, 72; Sir Roger Tomkys, Master of Pembroke College, Cambridge, 56; Mr David Wall, former director, Royal Academy of Dancing, 47; Miss Enid Wilson, golfer, 83.