Birthdays

Mr Anthony Andrews, actor, 47; Mr Ernest Armstrong, former MP, 80; Miss Hazel Aronson QC, Sheriff of Lothian and Borders at Edinburgh, 49; Mr Michael Aspel, broadcaster, 62; Sir Charles Ball Bt, deputy chairman, Associated British Ports Holdings, 71; Mr Herbert Barratt, former trade union leader, 90; Lord Boardman, former chairman, National Westminster Bank, 76; Mr Pieter Willem Botha, former president of South Africa, 79; Sir James Bottomley, former diplomat, 75; The Hon Sir Richard Butler, for mer president, National Farmers' Union, 66; Miss Stella Cunliffe, statistician, 78; Mr Keith Dawson, headmaster, Haber- dashers' Aske's School, 58; Mr Brendan Foster, former Olympic athlete, 47; Mr Joe Frazier, heavyweight boxer, 51; Baroness Hamwee, sol icitorand local councillor, 48; Baroness Hilton of Eggardon, former Head of Training, Metropolitan Police, 59; Miss Anne Howells, opera and concert singer, 54; Sir Anthony McCowan, a Lord Justice of Appeal, 67; Mr Denys Milne, former director, BP Oil, 6

9; Mr James Mortimer, former general secretary of the Labour Party, 74; Mr Des O'Connor, comedian, singer and television presenter, 63; Miss Luise Rainer, actress, 85; Sir John Rennie, former Commissioner-General, United Nations Relief and Works Agency, 78; Sir Terence Streeton, former diplomat, 65; Sir Swinton Thomas, High Court judge, 64.