Birthdays: 25th AUGUST 1995

Birthdays

Mr Martin Amis, novelist, 46; Air Chief Marshal Sir Michael Armitage, former commandant, Royal College of Defence Studies, 65; Miss Pamela Armstrong, television newsreader, 44; Mr Jonathan Ashley-Smith, conservationist, 49; Mr Sikander Bakht, cricketer, 38; Mr Conrad Black, chairman, The Telegraph plc, 51; Mr Sean Connery, actor, 65; Mr Mel Ferrer, actor and film director, 78; Sir Malcolm Field, chief executive, W.H. Smith Group, 58; Dr Desmond Flower, author, 88; Mr Frederick Forsyth, novelist, 57; Mr Andrew Gardner, broadcaster, 63; Professor Peter Gray, Master of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, 69; Mr Van Johnson, actor, 78; Mr Karl Korte, composer, 67; Sir Andrew Longmore, High Court judge, 51; Sir Donald Logan, former diplomat, 78; Lord McGregor of Durris, former chairman, Press Complaints Commission, 74; Mr Brian Moore, novelist, 74; Mr Bryan Mosley, actor, 64; Sir Crispin Tickell, Vice- President, Royal Geographical Society, 65; Mrs Nancy Trenaman, former principal, St Anne's College, Oxford, 76; Mr James Wallace MP, 41; Professor Anne Warner, Professor of Developmental Biology, University College London, 55.