Birthdays

Miss June Allyson, actress, 75; Mr Christopher Booker, journalist and author, 55; Mr Richard Caldicot, actor, 84; Mr Shura Cherkassky, pianist, 81; Mr Joseph Cooper, pianist and broadcaster, 80; Sir Zelman Cowen QC, former Provost of Oriel College, Oxford, 73; Professor Sir Andrew Derbyshire, architect, 69; Professor Harold Dexter, organist, 72; Air Chief Marshal Sir Peter Fletcher, 76; Dr Mark Girouard, architectural historian, 61; Mr Brian Hoban, former head master of Harrow School, 71; Mr Terence Hodgkinson, trustee, the Burlington Magazine, 79; Mr Clive James, critic and television presenter, 53; Mr Thomas Keneally, author, 57; Mr George Kynoch MP, 46; Lt-Gen Sir Derek Lang, soldier and management consultant, 79; Miss Yaltah Menuhin, pianist, 71; Maj-Gen Desmond Smith, company chairman, 81; Sir John Stocker, a Lord Justice of Appeal, 74; Maj-Gen Julian Thompson, 58; Miss Jayne Torvill, ice dance champion, 35; The Most Rev Desmond Tutu, archbishop of Cape Town, 61; Sir Colin Walker, chairman, East Anglian Regional Health Authority, 58; Mr Graham Yallop, cricketer, 40; Mr Yo Yo Ma, cellist, 37.