Birthdays

Birthdays

Miss Mary Allen, Secretary- General, the Arts Council, 45; Mr Peter Allsop, publisher, 72; Mr John Banham, chairman, Tarmac, 56; Miss Honor Blackman, actress, 70; Mr Marc Bohan, dress designer, 70; Mr Ray Bradbury, author, 76; Professor Sir Colin Buchanan, town planner, 89; Dr Rob Buckman, broadcaster, 48; M Henri Cartier-Bresson, photographer, 88; Maj-Gen Earl Cathcart, 77; Sir Richard Catling, former Commissioner of Police, Kenya, 84; Professor Sir Cyril Astley Clarke, geneticist, 89; Mr Steve Davis, snooker player, 39; Miss Margaret Douglas, Supervisor of Parliamentary Broadcasting, 62; Miss Anne Downey, circuit judge, 60; Mr Derek Fatchett MP, 51; Mr Wilfred Harrison, actor, director and playwright, 71; Mr Max Hebditch, Director of the Museum of London, 59; Mr Gerald Long, journalist and former chief executive, Reuters, 73; Mr Donald MacLeary, dancer, 59; The Right Rev Robert Martineau, former Bishop of Blackburn, 83; Sir James Menter, former Principal, Queen Mary College, 75; Mr Alun Michael MP, 53; Sir Leo Pliatzky, former senior civil servant, 77; General Norman Schwarzkopf, former US military commander, 62; Mr Karlheinz Stockhausen, composer and conductor, 68; Sir Anthony Tuke, former chairman, Savoy Hotel, 76; Mr Mats Wilander, tennis player, 32.