Birthdays

Mr Dennis Amiss, cricketer, 51; Miss Angela Bonallack, golfer, 57; Miss Fredda Brilliant, sculptor, 86; Mr Francis Ford Coppola, film director and screenwriter, 55; Sir Geoffrey Cox, former chief executive, ITN, 84; Mr Luca Cumani, race-horse trainer, 45; Professor Graeme Davies, chief executive, Universities' Funding Council, 57; Professor Donald Denman, land economist, 83; Mr Peter Fluck, puppet-maker and satirist, 53; Mr David Frost, television presenter, 55; Mr Frederick Garner, former chairman, Pearl Assurance, 74; Mr James Garner, actor, 66; Lord Glendevon, former government minister, 82; Vice-Admiral Sir Arthur Hezlet, former submarine commander, 80; Mr Gorden Kaye, actor, 53; Mr Martyn Lewis, newsreader, 49; Mr Cliff Morgan, former head of Outside Broadcasting, BBC TV, 64; Mr Ian Richardson, actor, 60; Mr Andrew Sachs, actor, 64; Mr Ravi Shankar, sitar player, 74; Gp Capt Mary Shaw, former director and matron-in-chief, PMRAFNS, 61; Miss Alison Shrubsole, former Principal, Homerton College, 69; Mr David J. Williams, chief constable, Surrey, 53; Sir Geoffrey Wilson, former chairman, Race Relations Board, 84; Mr Mark Wolfson MP, 60.