Birthdays

The Marquess of Anglesey, former Lord-Lieutenant of Gwynedd, 70; Miss Betty Boothroyd MP, Speaker of the House of Commons, 63; Viscount Caldecote, former chairman, Delta Group, 75; Mr David Carradine, actor, 56; Professor Garth Chapman, zoologist, 75; Sir Nicolas Cheetham, former ambassador, 82; Professor Sir Alastair Currie, pathologist, 71; Professor Hugh de Wardener, physician and nephrologist, 77; Sir Edward Eveleigh, former Lord Justice of Appeal, 75; Sir Michael Fox, a Lord Justice of Appeal, 71; Mr Brandon Gough, chairman, Coopers and Lybrand Deloitte, 55; Mr Milner Gray, artist and designer, 93; Mr John Hardman, chairman, Asda, 53; Professor Sir Richard Harrison, anatomist, 72; Mr Neil Harvey, cricketer, 64; Mr Vanburn Holder, cricket umpire, 47; Sir Geoffrey Jellicoe, landscape architect, 92; Mr Bill Maynard, actor and comedian, 64; Mr Alasdair Milne, former director-general, BBC, 62; Dr Cesar Milstein, biologist and biochemist, 65; Sir Mark Oliphant, physicist and former Governor of South Australia, 91; Dame Merle Park, director of the Royal Ballet School, 55; The Very Rev John Paterson, former Moderator of the Church of Scotland, 70; The Hon Sir Peter Ramsbotham, former ambassador to Washington, 73; Mr Ray Reardon, snooker champion, 60; Lord Romsey, film producer, 45; Mr Albert Roux, chef, 57; Mr Robert Scholey, chairman of British Steel, 71; Sir Reginald Sholl, legal consultant, 90; Mr Dennis Silk, former Warden of Radley College, 61; Mr Nigel Spearing MP, 62; Mr Toru Takemitsu, composer, 62; Mr Godfrey Talbot, author, broadcaster and former BBC Court correspondent, 84; Mr Peter Wood, theatre and television director, 64.