Birthdays

Birthdays

Mr James Aldridge, author, 77; Mr Tony Baldry MP, Under-Secretary of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, 45; Mr Tommy Carmody, jockey, 39; Sir John Cockram, former chairman, Rickmansworth Water Co, 87; Lord Desai, Professor of Economics, London School of Economics, 55; Mr Dawie de Villiers, diplomat and politician, 55; Mr John Dunlop, racehorse trainer, 56; Mrs Winnie Ewing MEP, 66; Mr Sunil Gavaskar, cricketer, 46; Mr Graham Johnson, pianist, 45; Lord Lambton, former government minister, 73; Miss Evelyn Laye, actress and singer, 95; Professor Ian Lucas, agriculturalist, 69; Sir Kit McMahon, former chairman, the Midland Bank, 68; Mr John Maltby, former chairman, United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority, 67; The Very Rev Ivan Neill, former chaplain to the Queen, 83; Sir Leslie Porter, former president, Tesco, 75; Sir Wyn Roberts MP, 65; Mr Reg Smythe, cartoonist, 78; Mr Keith Stackpole, cricketer, 55; Miss Josephine Veasey, opera singer, 65; Miss Virginia Wade, tennis player, 50; Mr Ian Wallace, actor, broadcaster singer, 76; Sir Philip Ward, Lord- Lieutenant of West Sussex, 71; Sir Reginald Wilson, chartered accountant, former company chairman, 90.