Birthdays

Birthdays

The Duke of Kent, 60; Mr Joseph Ashton MP, 62; Miss Carling Bassett-Seguso, tennis player, 28; Mr Brian Blessed, actor, 58; Col William Brownlow, Lord-Lieutenant of County Down, 74; Mr Paul Channon MP, 60; Lord Chelmer, former company chairman and politician, 81; The Right Rev Lord Coggan, former Archbishop of Canterbury, 86; Dr William Cole, Master of Music, Queen's Chapel of the Savoy, 86; Mr Geoff Cook, cricketer, 44; Sir Colin Corness, chairman, Redland, 64; Mr Denzil Davies MP, 57; Mr Stuart Devlin, gold- and silversmith, 64; Lord Donaldson of Kingsbridge, former government minister, 88; Professor Sir Herbert Duthie, former Provost, University of Wales College of Medicine, 66; Sir David Goodall, former High Commissioner to India, 64; Lord Hailsham of St Marylebone, former Lord Chancellor, 88; Mr Henry Lambert, former chairman, Sun Alliance and London Insurance, 70; Mr Thomas Malcomson, ambassador to Panama, 58; Professor Peter Mansfield, physicist, 62; Sir John Margetson, former diplomat, 68; Mr Norman Mischler, former chairman, Hoechst UK, 75; Mr Steve Ovett, athlete, 40; Sir Norman Payne, former chairman, BAA plc, 74; Mr Andy Platt, Rugby League player, 32; Sir Stephen Sedley, High Court judge, 56; Miss Irmgard Seefried, soprano, 76; Lord Shaw of Northstead, former MP, 75; Mr Donald Sinden, actor, 72; The Earl of Stair, former Lord-Lieutenant of Wigtown, 89; Mr Bill Tidy, cartoonist, 62.