Birthdays

Miss Grace Bumbry, opera and concert singer, 58; Miss Dyan Cannon, actress, 56; Mr Alexander Chancellor, journalist, founding editor of the Independent Magazine, 55; Capt Sir Ivar Colquhoun of Luss Bt, Chief of the Clan, 79; Miss Rosalie Crutchle y, actress, 73; Mr Iain Cuthbertson, actor, 65; Mr Alan Dyer, Chief Constable, Bedfordshire, 61; Professor Keith Hancock, economist, 60; Sir Havelock Hudson, former chairman of Lloyd's, 76; Lt-Cdr Sir Ian Clark Hutchison, member of the Queen's Body Guar

d for Scotland, 92; Professor Brian Josephson, physicist, 55; Air Vice-Marshal Richard Kyle, 52; Professor Lance Lanyon, Principal, Royal Veterinary College, 51; Mr John McLaughlin, blues and jazz guitarist, 52; Miss Margaret Marshall, concert and opera s inger, 46; Mr Floyd Patterson, boxing champion, 60; Mr Nicholas Payne, Director, Royal Opera, Covent Garden, 50; Mr Timothy Rix, publisher, 61; Miss Barbara Rush, actress, 65; Sir Alan Thomas, Head, Defence Export Service Organisation, 52; Mrs Audrey Wis e MP, 60; Miss Jane Wyman, actress, 81.