Birthdays

Professor Quentin Bell, painter, sculptor and art historian, 84; Commandant Daphne Blundell, former Director, Women's Royal Naval Service, 78; Mr Gordon Brand Jnr, golfer, 36; Sir Malcolm Hilbery Chaplin, senior partner, Hilbery Chaplin, 55; Mr Bill Clinton, President of the United States, 48; Lord Cocks of Hartcliffe, former MP, 65; Mr Kenneth Dixon, former chairman, Rowntree, 65; Mr Charles Driver, Master of Wellington College, 55; Lord Ennals, chairman, United Nations Association, 72; Sir Francis Ferris, High Court judge, 62; Mr Ian Gould, cricketer, 37; Dame Rose Heilbron, former High Court judge, 80; Mr Edmund Heward, former Chief Master of the Supreme Court, 82; Sir David Hopwood, Professor of Genetics, University of East Anglia, 61; Mr Richard Ingrams, Editor, the Oldie, 57; Mr Billy J. Kramer, rock singer, 51; Mr Bernard Levin, journalist, 66; Mr David Lodge, actor, 73; Mr John Marshall MP, 54; Mr Michael Roper, former Keeper of Public Records, 62; Miss Jill St John, actress, 54; Mr Willie Shoemaker, jockey, 63; Mrs Phyllida Stewart-Roberts, Superintendent-in- Chief, St John Ambulance Brigade, 61; Mr John Mark Taylor MP, Parliamentary Secretary, Lord Chancellor's Department, 53; Mr Georg von Mallinckrodt, executive chairman, Schroders, 64; Surgeon Vice-Admiral Sir James Watt, 80.