Birthdays

Mr Malcolm Arnold, composer, 71; Mr Geoffrey Boycott, cricketer, 52; Lord Brand, former Senator of the College of Justice in Scotland, 69; Mr Norman Clarke, Emeritus Secretary and registrar, Institute of Mathematics, 76; Miss Maureen Duffy, novelist, 59; Mr Dizzy Gillespie, jazz trumpeter, 75; Lord Graves (Peter Graves), actor, 81; Mr Simon Gray, playwright, 56; Lord Grieve, a former Senator of the College of Justice in Scotland, 75; The Rev Peter Hackett SJ, former Master, Campion Hall, Oxford, 68; Sir Maurice Hodgson, former chairman of ICI, 73; Mr Peter Mandelson MP, 39; Mr Manfred Mann, rock bandleader, 52; Professor Sir Roy Marshall, former High Commissioner for Barbados, 72; Miss Nadia Nerina, former prima ballerina, 65; Sir Georg Solti, conductor, 80; Mr John Stevens, chief constable, Northumbria, 50; Lord Thomas of Swynnerton, historian, 61; Mr Patrick Thompson MP, 57; Mr Paul Tosch, former chairman and managing director, Vauxhall Motors, 52; Mr Francis Warner, poet, 55; Dr Elsie Widdowson, nutritionist, 86.