Birthdays

Major Kenneth Adams, Hon Fellow, St George's House, Windsor Castle, 75; Mr Rowan Atkinson, actor and comedian, 40; Mr Paul Azinger, golfer, 35; Lord Balfour of Burleigh, chancellor, Stirling University, 68; Sir Ashley Bramall, former chairman of t he GLC, 79; Sir Robert Clark, chairman, Mirror Group Newspapers, 71; Mr John Clive, actor and writer, 57; Mr John Croft, painter and criminologist, 72; Mr Angus Deayton, writer and broadcaster, 39; Mr Kapil Dev, cricketer, 36; M Sacha Distel, singer, 63

; General Sir Martin Farndale, former Commander-in-Chief, BAOR and Commander Northern Group, 66; Sir Hugh Fish, water technologist, 72; Mr Barry John, former Welsh rugby international, 50; Mr P.J. Kavanagh, poet and novelist, 64; Mr Christopher Lewinton,chairman and chief executive, TI Group, 63; Miss Nancy Lopez-Melton, golfer, 38; Professor Lord McColl of Dulwich, surgeon, 62; Mr Brian Moffat, chairman, British Steel, 56; Mr Martin O'Neill MP, 50; Lord Plowden, former chairman, Atomic Energy Committee , 88; Mr Bill Sirs, former trade union leader, 75; Mr John Sowden, former chairman, Costain Group, 78; Miss Sylvia Syms, actress, 61; Mr Terry Venables, football manager, 52; Sir Ernest Woodroofe, former chairman, Unilever, 83; Miss Loretta Young, actres s, 82.