Birthdays

Lord Birkett, film producer, 63; Col John Blashford-Snell, adventurer, and Defence Staff officer, 56; Mr William Bowman, chairman, Covent Garden Market Authority, 60; Mr Eddie Brigati, rock singer, 46; Mr Louis Carus, former principal, Birmingham School of Music, 65; Mrs Barbara Craig, former principal of Somerville College, Oxford, 77; Mlle Catherine Deneuve, actress, 49; Professor Charlotte Erickson, historian, 69; Maj-Gen Lord Michael Fitzalan Howard, former diplomat, 76; Miss Joan Fontaine, actress, 75; Lady Fox, editor, British Institute of International and Comparative Law, 64; Mr Mike Hendrick, cricketer, 44; Miss Irene Hindmarsh, former principal, St Aidan's College, Durham, 69; Mr Derek Jacobi, actor, 54; Mrs Doris Lessing, novelist, 73; Lord Lloyd of Hampstead QC, Emeritus Professor of Jurisprudence at London University, 77; Mr Donald McIntyre, singer, 58; Mr Kelvin MacKenzie, editor, the Sun, 46; Mr Robert Rauschenberg, pop artist, 67; Mr James Sharples, chief constable of Merseyside, 49; Mr Michael Stoute, racehorse trainer, 47; Vice-Admiral Sir FitzRoy Talbot, 83; Mr Arthur Thatcher, former director of censuses, 66; Vice-Admiral Sir Hugo White, Flag Officer, Scotland and Northern Ireland, 53; Mr James White, chairman, Ashley Group, 55; Admiral Sir David Williams, former governor of Gibraltar, 71; Professor Sir David Williams, former Vice- Chancellor, Cambridge University, 62; Professor John Wing, psychiatrist, 69; Sir Hugh Wontner, chairman, Claridge's and Berkeley Hotels, 84.