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Sunday 21 May 1995 23:02 BST

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Birthdays

M Charles Aznavour, singer, 71; Mr Kenny Ball, jazz trumpeter, 64; Mr Richard Benjamin, actor, 57; Mr George Best, former footballer, 49; Miss Cheryl Campbell, actress, 46; Mr Menzies Campbell MP, 54; Miss Jean Challis, radio presenter, 61; Viscount Dunrossil, former Governor of Bermuda, 69; The Right Rev Douglas Feaver, former Bishop of Peterborough, 81; Professor Sir William Hawthorne, former Master of Churchill College, Cambridge, 82; Sir Mark Heath, former diplomat, 68; Mr Anthony Holden, journalist and broadcaster, 48; Sir Edwin Leather, writer and broadcaster, and former Governor of Bermuda, 76; Viscount Marchwood, managing director, Moet & Chandon (London), 59; Mr Paul Mariner, footballer, 42; Sir Alan Pullinger, former chairman, Haden Carrier, 82; Mrs Betty Williams, joint Nobel Peace prize-winner, 52; Mr Ernest Wistrich, former director, European Movement, 72.

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