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Birthdays

Mr Herb Alpert, musician, 62; Professor Patrick Bateson, Provost, King's College, Cambridge, 60; Mr Richard Chamberlain, actor, 63; Mr Robbie Coltrane, actor, 48; Mr Alan Duncan MP, 41; Air Marshal Sir Herbert Durkin, 76; Mr Don Foster MP, 51; Mr John Fowles, novelist, 72; Mr David Heneker, composer and lyricist, 92; Mr John Kemp-Welch, chairman of the Stock Exchange, 62; Sir Pat Lowry, former president, Institute of Personnel Management, 78; Sir Derek Pattinson, former secretary-general, General Synod of the Church of England, 68; Air Commodore Helen Renton, former Director, WRAF, 67; The Right Rev Dom John Roberts, former Abbot of Downside, 79; Mr Bob Russell MP, 52; Professor Dame Sheila Sherlock, Professor of Medicine, Royal Free Hospital School of Medicine, 80; Lord Steel of Aikwood, former MP, 60; Professor Sir Frederick Warner, chemical engineer, 88; Mr Sidney Weighell, former trade union leader, 76; Mr Nicholas Winterton MP, 60

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