Birthdays

Birthdays

Mr Dave Allen, comedian, 59; Mr Vladimir Ashkenazy, pianist, 58; Surgeon Vice-Admiral Sir Dick Caldwell, 86; Professor Gordon Conway, Vice-Chancellor, Sussex University, 57; Baroness Cox, a Deputy Speaker, House of Lords, 58; The Dalai Lama, 60; Professor Arthur Dickens, historian, 85; Mr Peter Glossop, operatic baritone, 67; Miss Geraldine James, actress, 45; Miss Janet Leigh, actress, 68; Mr William McCall, former general secretary, Institution of Professional Civil Servants, 66; Mr John Makepeace, furniture designer, 56; Professor Barry Nicholas, former Principal, Brasenose College, Oxford, 76; Vice-Admiral Sir Arthur Pedder, 91; Miss Mary Peters, athlete, 56; The Right Rev Simon Phipps, former Bishop of Lincoln, 74; The Hon Jonathon Porritt, ecologist, 45; Mr Sylvester Stallone, actor and film director, 49.