Birthdays

Mr Martin Amis, novelist, 43; Air Chief Marshal Sir Michael Armitage, former commandant, Royal College of Defence Studies, 62; Miss Pamela Armstrong, newsreader, 41; Mr Conrad Black, chairman, the Daily Telegraph, 48; Mr Sean Connery, actor, 62; Mr Bob Crosby, bandleader, 79; Mr Ross Davidson, actor, 43; Mr Mel Ferrer, actor and director, 75; Sir Malcolm Field, group managing director, WH Smith, and chairman, NAAFI, 55; Dr Desmond Flower, author and former chairman, Cassell & Co, 85; Mr Frederick Forsyth, novelist, 54; Professor Peter Gray, Master of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, 66; Mr Van Johnson, actor, 75; Miss Ruby Keeler, actress , 83; Mr Karl Korte, composer, 64; Sir Donald Logan, former diplomat, 75; Lord McGregor of Durris, chairman, Press Complaints Commission, 71; Mr Brian Moore, novelist, 71; Mr Bryan Mosley, actor, 61; Miss Margaret Rothwell, ambassador to the Ivory Coast, Niger and Burkina, 54; Sir Crispin Tickell, Warden of Green College, Oxford, 62; Mrs Nancy Trenaman, former principal, St Anne's College, Oxford, 73; Mr James Wallace MP, 38; Professor Anne Warner, physiologist, 52.