Birthdays

Lord Ackner, a Lord of Appeal in Ordinary, 72; Mr Ray Alan, ventriloquist, 62; Mr Geoff Baxter, jockey, 46; Mr Robert Blake, actor, 59; Mr Rossano Brazzi, actor, 76; Col Sir Thomas Butler, former Governor of the Tower of London, 82; Mr Jack Cardiff, film director, 78; Mr Niall Crowley, former chairman, Allied Irish Banks, 66; Mr Winston Davis, cricketer, 34; Viscount Eccles CH, former MP, 88; Sir Thomas Hetherington QC, former Director of Public Prosecutions, 66; Sir Curtis Keeble, former diplomat, 70; Dr Marjorie Mowlam MP, 43; Sir Cyril Pickard, former diplomat, 75; Mr Derek Pringle, cricketer, 34; Professor Christopher Ricks, Professor of English, Boston University, 59; Mr Alan Rodger QC, Lord Advocate, 48; Mr John Kendall Rowlands, former keeper, Department of Prints and Drawings, British Museum, 61; Mr Peter Shilton, footballer, 43; Mr John Spencer, snooker player, 57; Mr Jack Warden, actor, 72; Professor Dorothy Wedderburn, former principal of Royal Holloway and Bedford College, 67.