Birthdays

Mr Burt Bacharach, composer, 64; Mr Alan Ball, football manager, 48; Mr Michael Coates, former chairman, Price Waterhouse, 69; Mr John Floyd, auctioneer, 70; Mr Patrick Gilbert, former general secretary, SPCK, 59; Mr James Pineo Grant, executive director, UNICEF, 71; Miss Susan Hampshire, actress, 51; Professor Dorothy Hodgkin OM, chemist, 83; Mr Henry Hodson, consultant editor, The Annual Register, 87; The Earl of Kimberley, member of the House of Lords Defence Group, 69; Lord Laing of Dunphail, president, United Biscuits, 70; Mr Eric Lyall, chairman, Pearl Group, 69; Mr Stephen Milligan MP, 45; Mr Roger Moate MP, 55; The Right Rev Hugh Montefiore, former Bishop of Birmingham, 73; Mr Chris Patten, Governor of Hong Kong, 49; Mr Frederick Smithies, schoolteacher and trade union leader, 64; Dr Miriam Stoppard, writer and broadcaster, 56; Mr Steve Winwood, rock singer and composer, 45; Sir Paul Wright, former diplomat, 78.