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Thursday 18 June 1998 23:02 BST
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Birthdays

Mr Robert Ainsworth MP, a Lord Commissioner, 46; Sir Michael Alexander, former UK Permanent Representative, Nato, 62; Miss Aung San Suu Kyi, General Secretary, National League for Democracy, Burma, 53; Sir Robin Brook, businessman and administrator, 90; Mr Neil Chalmers, director, Natural History Museum, 56; Sir Terence Clark, diplomat, 64; The Right Rev John Dennis, former Bishop of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich, 67; Miss Ena Evans, former Headmistress, King Edward VI High School, Birmingham, 60; The Right Rev John Hind, Bishop of Gibraltar in Europe, 53; Sir Michael Jay, Ambassador to France, 52; M Louis Jourdan, actor, 79; Mr Bryan Kneale, sculptor, 68; Rear-Admiral Sir Morgan Morgan-Giles, former MP, 84; Brigadier Eileen Nolan, former director, WRAC, 78; Mr Mike O'Brien MP, Parliamentary Under-Secretary, Home Office, 44; Sir Raymond Powell, former MP, 70; Sir Francis Purchas, a former Lord Justice of Appeal, 79; Mr Salman Rushdie, novelist, 51; Sir John Sheil, judge of the High Court of Northern Ireland, 60; Sir Alfred Shepperd, former chairman and chief executive, Wellcome Foundation, 73; Mr David Somerset, banker, 68; The Rev Dom Antony Sutch, Master, Downside School, 48; Miss Kathleen Turner, actress, 44; Mr Rory Underwood, rugby player, 35; Mr Edmund Vestey, former chairman, Blue Star Line, 66.

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