Birthdays

Lord Allen of Abbeydale, former senior civil servant, 81; Mr Jon Bannenberg, yacht designer, 64; Dr Robert Barnes, metallurgist, 69; Dr Kate Bertram, former president, Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge, 81; Mr Robin Biggam, chairman, BICC, 55; The Hon Mrs Corsar, chairman, WRVS, 66; Sir Peter Darby, former chief inspector, Fire Services, 69; Lord Dervaird, professor of Company and Commercial Law, Edinburgh University, 58; Mr Leslie East, publishing director, Novello & Co 44; Mr Keith Fielding, rugby player, 44; Lord Gilmour of Craigmillar, former government minister, 67; Sir Roy Griffiths, deputy chairman, National Health Service Policy Board, 67; Mr Bruce Gyngell, managing director, TV-am, 64; Dr Donald Harden, former director, London Museum, 92; Mr Bernard Henderson, chairman, Anglian Water, 65; Mr Brian Hitchen, editor, Daily Star, 57; Dame Elaine Kellett-Bowman MP, 69; Dr Peter Knight, Vice-Chancellor, University of Central England in Birmingham, 46; Maj-Gen Robert Loudoun, former director, Mental Health Foundation, 71; Viscount Mersey, film director, 59; Mr David Metcalfe, insurance broker, 66; The Right Rev Derek Rawcliffe, Assistant Bishop, Ripon, 72; Viscount Samuel, professor of physical chemistry, 71; Herr Walter Scheel, former president, West Germany, 74; Sir Roy Shaw, former secretary-general, the Arts Council, 75; Mr Brian Walden, journalist and broadcaster, 61; Sir Peter Watkin Williams, former chief justice of Malawi, 82; Air Chief Marshal Sir Neil Wheeler, 76; The Very Rev Michael Whinney, Assistant Bishop, Birmingham, 63.