Birthdays

Mr Allan Border, cricketer, 37; Mr Peter Coker, artist, 66; Sir Robert Cowan, chairman, Highlands and Islands Enterprise, 60; Gp Capt John Cunningham, former Executive Director, British Aerospace, 75; Miss Anna Dawson, actress and comedienne, 55; Mr Christopher Dean, skater, 34; Sir Ronald Dearing, former chairman of the Post Office, 62; Miss Jo Durie, tennis player, 32; Mr David East, cricketer, 33; Miss Bobbie Gentry, singer, 50; Dame Mary Green, former headmistress, Kidbrooke School, 79; Mr Jack Higgins (Harry Patterson), novelist, 63; Lord Jenkins of Putney, former government minister, 84; Professor James McGee, professor of morbid anatomy, Oxford University, 53; Sir James Munn, university commissioner, 72; Mr John Pardoe, chairman, Sight and Sound Education, and former MP, 58; Sir Denis Rickett, former senior civil servant, 85; Mrs Shirley Williams, former president, Social Democratic Party, 62.