Birthdays

Sir Peter Bowness, solicitor, 50; Mr Mel Calman, cartoonist, artist and writer, 62; Mr Christopher Chope, barrister and former government minister, 46; Brigadier Sir Frederick Coates Bt, former member, British Defence Staff, Washington, 77; Mr Francis Cornish, diplomat, 51; Dr Edward de Bono, Secretary-General, Supranational Independent Thinking Organisation (SITO), 60; Dame Ann Ebsworth, High Court judge, 56; Mr James Fox, actor, 54; Sir Harold Himsworth, former secretary, Medical Research Council, 88; Baroness Hylton- Foster, patron, British Red Cross Society, 85; Mr David Jacobs, radio and television presenter, 67; Sir Igor Judge, High Court judge, 52; Air Chief Marshal Sir Thomas Kennedy, 65; Mrs Helen Jackson MP, 54; Mr Robert Kilroy-Silk, broadcaster and former MP, 51; Dr Ingram Lenton, chairman, Compass Group, 66; Mr John Lyons, former General Secretary, Electrical Power Engineers' Association, 67; Mr Noel Mander, organ maker, 81; Mr Paul Moriarty, actor, 47; Sir Edward Parkes, former Vice- Chancellor, Leeds University, 67; Dr Max Perutz, molecular biologist, 79; Sir Kenneth Preston, former chairman, Stone-Platt Industries, 92; Mr Leslie Sands, actor and playwright, 72; Sir Michael Scott, former diplomat, 70; Sir James Steel, former chairman, Furness Withy & Co, 84; Professor Gordon Stone, chemist, 68; Mr Pete Townshend, guitarist and singer, 48; Mr Sandy Wilson, composer and playwright, 69; Ms Victoria Wood, writer and comedienne, 40.