Birthdays

Mr Malcolm Arnold, composer, 72; Mr Geoffrey Boycott, cricketer, 53; Lord Brand, former Senator of the College of Justice in Scotland, 70; Mr Norman Clarke, Emeritus Secretary and registrar, Institute of Mathematics, 77; Miss Maureen Duffy, novelist, 60; Miss Carrie Fisher, actress, 37; Lord Graves (Peter Graves), actor, 82; Mr Simon Gray, playwright, 57; Lord Grieve, former Senator of the College of Justice in Scotland, 76; The Rev Peter Hackett SJ, former Master, Campion Hall, Oxford, 69; Sir Maurice Hodgson, former chairman, ICI, 74; Mr John Hull, merchant banker, 68; Miss Natalia Makarova, ballerina, 53; Mr Peter Mandelson MP, 40; Mr Manfred Mann, rock bandleader, 53; Professor Sir Roy Marshall, former High Commissioner for Barbados, 73; Miss Nadia Nerina, former prima ballerina, 66; Sir Georg Solti, conductor, 81; Mr John Stevens, chief constable, Northumbria, 51; Lord Thomas of Swynnerton, historian, 62; Mr Patrick Thompson MP, 58; Mr Paul Tosch, former chairman and managing director, Vauxhall Motors, 53; Mr Francis Warner, poet and playwright, 56; Dr Elsie Widdowson, nutritionist, 87.