Birthdays

Birthdays

Professor Janet Bately, Professor of English Language and Mediaeval Literature, King's College London, 63; Mr Timothy Bateson, actor, 69; Mr Tony Benn MP, 70; Sir Jeffery Bowman, former chairman, Price Waterhouse Europe, 60; Mr Marlon Brando, actor, 71; Canon Anthony Caesar, an Extra Chaplain to the Queen, 71; Miss Doris Day, actress, 71; Mr Dennis Farr, former Director, Courtauld Institute Galleries, 66; Mr William Gaunt, actor, 58; The Duke of Grafton, conservationist, 76; Herr Helmut Kohl, German Chancellor, 65; Mr Jonathan Lynn, director, actor and author, 52; Mr Eddie Murphy, actor, 34; Sir Martin Nourse, a Lord Justice of Appeal, 63; Sir John Smith CH, founder of the Landmark Trust, 72; Miss Jan Sterling, actress, 72; Mr Francis Tate, former chairman, Tate and Lyle, 82; Mr Richard Thompson, guitarist and songwriter, 46; Sir Malcolm Thornton MP, 56; Professor Kathleen Tillotson, Hildred Carlile Emeritus Professor of English, London University, 89; Mr John Virgo, snooker player, 49.