Birthdays

TODAY: Mr Bev Bevan, rock musician, 49; Mr Paul Copley, actor, 52; Miss Kathryn Crosby, actress, 62; Sir John Drummond, writer and broadcaster, 61; Mr Francis Durbridge, author and playwright, 83; Mr John Edwards, former High Commissioner to Botswana, 61; Mrs Maria Fyfe MP, 57; Sir Cosmo Haskard, former governor of the Falkland Islands, 79; Miss Daisy Hyams, consultant, Tesco plc, 83; Mr Dickie Jeeps, former rugby international, 64; Mr Alan Keen MP, 58; Mr Charles Kennedy MP, 36; Miss Yvonne Kenny, operatic soprano, 45; Mr Imran Khan, cricketer, 43; Dr Mauno Koivisto, former president of Finland, 72; Dr Elizabeth Laverick, electrical engineer, 70; Sir Robert McConnell, former Social Security Commissioner, Northern Ireland, 73; Mr Tony Millson, ambassador to Macedonia, 44; Mr Ricardo Montalban, actor, 75; Sir Fergus Montgomery MP, 68; Mr Michael Morris MP, 59; Mr Paul Murphy MP, 47; Mr Tony Neary, rugby player, 47; Mr Kerry O'Keeffe, cricketer, 46; Lord Richardson of Duntisbourne, chairman, Morgan Stanley International Inc, 80; Mr Richard Seifert, architect, 85; Mr Laurence Shurman, Banking Ombudsman, 65; Lord Weatherill, former Speaker of the House of Commons, 75; Sir Peter Wright, former Director, Birmingham Royal Ballet, 69.

TOMORROW: Maj-Gen Sir John Acland, farmer and brewery director, 67; Professor Margaret Boden, philosopher, 59; Mr Paul Burnett, disc jockey, 52; Sir Alan Dalton, former chairman, Devon and Cornwall Development Company, 72; Miss Frances Dee, actress, 88; Lord Forte, president, Forte, 87; Sir Brian Goswell, deputy senior partner, Healey and Baker, 60; Mr Robert Goulet, singer and actor, 62; The Earl of Gowrie, chairman, Arts Council of England, 56; Mr John Selwyn Gummer MP, Secretary of State for the Environment, 56; Professor Sir Harry Hinsley, former Master, St John's, Cambridge, 77; The Most Rev Richard Holloway, Bishop of Edinburgh and Primus of the Scottish Episcopal Church, 62; Mr John McVie, rock musician, 50; Lord Moore of Lower Marsh, former MP, 58; Miss Joyce Quin MP, 51; Mr Charles Schultz, cartoonist, creator of "Peanuts", 73; Lord Strathcona and Mount Royal, president, Falkland Islands Trust, 72; Mrs Barbara Switzer, assistant general secretary, Manufacturing Science Finance, 55; Miss Tina Turner, rock singer, 57; Mr Keith Vaz MP, 39; Mr Des Walker, footballer, 30; Mr Norman West, MEP, 60; Mr Peter Wheeler, rugby player, 47.