Birthdays

Birthdays

Mr Jonathan Aitken MP, 54; Dr Barbara Ansell, rheumatologist, 73; Miss Elizabeth Ashley, actress, 57; Sir Harold Atcherley, former chairman, Tyzack & Partners, 78; Sir Patrick Branigan QC, former Attorney- General, Gold Coast, 90; Sir Charles Burman, former chairman, Tarmac, 88; Mr Allan Davis, actor, director and producer, 83; Mr Kenneth Gill, former trade union leader, 69; Dr Alan Gilmour, former director, NSPCC, 68; Lord Healey CH, former government minister, 79; Air Marshal Sir Frank Holroyd, former Chief Engineer, RAF, 61; Miss Jayne Irving, television presenter, 40; Lord Keith of Castleacre, merchant banker, 80; Dr Jeremy Lee-Potter, haematologist, 62; The Countess of Longford, writer, 90; Mr William McAlister, cultural programme co-ordinator, Soros Foundations, 56; Miss Sue MacGregor, BBC radio presenter, 55; Dr Peter North, Vice- Chancellor, Oxford University, 60; Sir Peter Parker, chairman, Mitsubishi Electric UK, 72; Mr John Peel, disc jockey, 57; Sir Henry Phillips, former colonial administrator, 82; Miss Audrey Scott, former Headmistress, Queen Anne's School, Caversham, 62; Mr George Stevenson MP, 58; Professor John Thoday, geneticist, 80; The Very Rev Professor Thomas Torrance, theologian, 83; Sir Philip Woodfield, former senior civil servant, 73.