Birthdays

Birthdays

TODAY: Mr David Alton MP, 47; Mr Alexander Bernstein, former chairman, Granada Group, 62; Dr David Bryer, director, Oxfam, 53; Miss Isobel Buchanan, soprano, 43; Mr James Butler, former senior partner, KPMG Peat Marwick, 68; Sir Jack Callard, former chairman, British Home Stores, 84; Sir Robert Carnwath, High Court judge, 52; Lord Constantine of Stanmore, former company chairman, 87; Mr Ry Cooder, folk and blues guitarist, 51; Mr Frank Dobson MP, 57; Professor Sir James Dunbar-Nasmith, architect, 70; Mr John Duttine, actor, 49; The Right Rev John Gibbs, former Bishop of Coventry, 80; Professor John Gillingham, neurosurgeon, 81; Earl Haig, painter, 79; Sir Leonard Knowles, former Chief Justice of the Bahamas, 81; Mr Mike Love, vocalist, 53; Admiral Sir Raymond Lygo, former chief executive, British Aerospace, 73; Mr Keith McCarter, sculptor, 61; Professor Joan Mitchell, political economist, 77; Mr Michael Moore, chairman, Quicks Group, 61; Mr Robert Nye, novelist and poet, 58; Mr Ben Okri, writer, 38; Sir Philip Powell, architect, 76; The Right Rev Michael Scott-Joynt, Bishop of Winchester, 54; Sir Roger Tomkys, Master, Pembroke College, Cambridge, 60; Mr David Wall, former Director, Royal Academy of Dancing, 51.

TOMORROW: Mr Ben Aris, actor, 60; Mr Matthew Bannister, Controller, BBC Radio 1, and managing director, Network Radio BBC, 40; Miss Sybille Bedford, author, 86; Miss Teresa Berganza, mezzo-soprano, 62; Mr Bernardo Bertolucci, film director, 56; The Right Rev Hugo de Waal, Bishop of Thetford, 62; Sir John Drinkwater QC, a Commissioner of Income Tax, 72; Sir Philip Foreman, former chairman, Short Bros, 74; Air Chief Marshal Sir Christopher Foxley- Norris, Chairman Emeritus, Cheshire Foundation, 80; Mr Ramon Hnatyshyn, former Governor-General of Canada, 63; Sir Ewart Jones, Emeritus Professor of Chemistry, Oxford University, 86; Sir Anthony Kenny, Warden, Rhodes House, 66; Mr Jerry Lewis, comedian, 71; Mr Leo McKern, actor, 77; Miss Kate Nelligan, actress, 46; Mr Roger Norrington, conductor, 63; Mr Richard Puttick, former chairman, Taylor Woodrow, 81; Miss Bridget Rowe, Editor, the Sunday Mirror, 47.