Birthdays
TODAY: Mr William Baillie, painter and president, Royal Scottish Academy, 74; The Most Rev Luigi Barbarito, Apostolic Pro-Nuncio, 75; Miss Sue Barker, tennis player, 41; Mr Algy Cluff, chairman and chief executive, Cluff Mining, 57; Mr Adrian Coles, director-general, Building Societies Association, 43; Mr Tim Curry, actor, 51; Mr Glyn England, former chairman, Windcluster Ltd, 76; Sir Cyril English, educationist, 84; Mr Trevor Francis, footballer, 43; Sir Denis Henry, a Lord Justice of Appeal, 66; Sir John Horlock, Professor of Engineering, Open University, 69; Mrs Margo MacDonald, broadcaster, 53; Mr Dudley Moore, actor, 62; Mr Garfield Morgan, actor, 66; Mr Hugh O'Brian, actor, 72; Mr Murray Perahia, pianist, 50; Mr Alan Price, singer, 55; Sir John Roch, a Lord Justice of Appeal, 63; M Michel Roux, chef de cuisine, 56; Mr Peter Scott QC, 62; Mr Wilf Stevenson, director, British Film Institute, 50; Miss Ruby Wax, actress, writer and television presenter, 44; Mr Philip Wroughton, Lord-Lieutenant for Berkshire, 64.
TOMORROW: Professor Derek Bowett QC, former president, Queens' College, Cambridge, 70; Mr Michael Brandon, actor, 52; Mr Ray Brooks, actor, 58; Sir Geoffrey Chipperfield, former civil servant, 64; The Right Rev Frederick Darwent, former Bishop of Aberdeen and Orkney, 70; Mr Richard de Lange, chairman and managing director, Philips Electronics UK, 52; Maj-Gen Sir Charles Dunphie, former chairman, Vickers, 95; Miss Nina Foch, actress, 73; Mr Graeme Fowler, cricketer, 40; Sir Arnold France, former chairman, Board of Inland Revenue, 86; Mr John Eliot Gardiner, conductor, 54; Mr Mauricio Gugelmin, racing driver, 34; Mr Paul Heiney, writer and broadcaster, 48; Miss Louise Jameson, actress, 46; Mr Andrew Jaspan, former editor, the Observer, 45; Sir Antony Jay, author and scriptwriter, 67; Mr Eddie Kulukundis, theatrical producer, 65; Miss Jessica Lange, actress, 48; Mr Nicholas Lyndhurst, actor, 36; Mr Ryan O'Neal, actor, 56; Mr Rodger Pannone, solicitor, and former president of the Law Society of England and Wales, 54; Mr Leslie Phillips, actor, 73; Sir John Quicke, agriculturist, 75; Mr Richard Rhodes, Headmaster, Rossall School, Lancashire, 55; Mr Christopher Robinson, organist and director of music, St John's College, Cambridge, 61; Mr Peter Snow, broadcaster, 59; Miss Jean Southworth QC, chairman, Police Discipline Appeals Tribunal, 71; Mr Luther Vandross, soul singer, 46; Air Marshal Sir Richard Wakeford, 75; Mr Henry Wrong, director, European Arts Foundation, 67.
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