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Monday 08 November 1999 01:02 GMT
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Birthdays

The Marquess of Abergavenny, former Lord-Lieutenant of East Sussex, 85; Lord Allanbridge, a former Senator of the College of Justice in Scotland, 74; Professor Christiaan Barnard, heart transplant pioneer, 77; Mr Geoffrey Bell, former chairman, Guinness Mahon Holdings, 60; Mr Ivor Caplin MP, 41; M Alain Delon, actor, 64; Mr Ken Dodd, comedian, 68; Mr Paul Foot, journalist, 62; Miss Elizabeth Gale, opera singer, 51; Mr Edward Goldsmith, ecologist, 71; Mr Frederick Gore, painter, 86; Miss June Havoc, actress, 83; Mr Dennis Head, former chairman, Rolls-Royce, 74; Dr Gordon Higginson, former Vice-Chancellor, Southampton University, 70; Miss Nerys Hughes, actress, 58; Mr Kazuo Ishiguro, writer, 45; Mr David Jessel, television journalist, 54; Sir Andrew Leggatt, a Lord Justice of Appeal, 69; Sir Denis Mahon, art historian, 89; Dr Ugo Mifsud Bonnici, president of Malta, 67; Miss Patti Page, singer, 72; Mr Martin Peters, footballer, 56; Mr William Reid, former director of the National Army Museum, 73; Sir Robert Shields, former Professor of Surgery, Liverpool University, 69; Miss Mary Travers, singer, 62; Mr Tamas Vasary, conductor and pianist, 66.

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