Birthdays

The Marquess of Anglesey, former Lord-Lieutenant of Gwynedd, 71; Miss Betty Boothroyd MP, Speaker of the House of Commons, 64; Professor Sir John Cadogan, chemist, 63; Viscount Caldecote, former chairman, Delta Group, 76; Professor Garth Chapman, zoologist, 76; Sir Nicolas Cheetham, former Ambassador to Mexico, 83; Professor Sir Alastair Currie, pathologist, 72; Professor Hugh de Wardener, physician and nephrologist, 78; Sir Edward Eveleigh, former Lord Justice of Appeal, 76; Mr Edgar Fay, QC, former circuit judge, 85; Sir Michael Fox, a former Lord Justice of Appeal, 72; Mr Brandon Gough, chairman, Coopers & Lybrand, 56; Mr Milner Gray, artist and designer, 94; Mr John Hardman, former chairman, Asda, 54; Professor Sir Richard Harrison, anatomist, 73; Sir Geoffrey Jellicoe, landscape architect, 93; Mr Alasdair Milne, former director-general, BBC, 63; Dr Cesar Milstein, biologist and biochemist, 66; Sir Mark Oliphant, physicist and former Governor of South Australia, 92; Dame Merle Park, Director, Royal Ballet School, 56; The Very Rev John Paterson, former Moderator of the Church of Scotland, 71; The Hon Sir Peter Ramsbotham, former Ambassador to Washington, 74; Mr Ray Reardon, snooker champion, 61; Mr Albert Roux, chef de cuisine, 58; Sir Robert Scholey, former chairman of British Steel, 72; Sir Reginald Sholl, legal consultant, 91; Mr Dennis Silk, former Warden of Radley College, 62; Mr Nigel Spearing MP, 63; Mr Toru Takemitsu, composer, 63; Mr Godfrey Talbot, author and broadcaster, 85; Mr Peter Wood, theatre and television director, 65.