Birthdays

Professor Sir David Bates, physicist, 77; The Right Rev Dewi Bridges, Bishop of Swansea and Brecon, 60; Mr John Camden, chairman, RMC Group, 68; Mr Don Cherry, jazz trumpeter, 57; Sir Kenneth Clucas, former senior civil servant, 72; Mr Anthony Coombs MP, 41; Professor Charles Cowan, Chairman of Convocation, London University, 70; Lord Cullen, a Senator of the College of Justice in Scotland, 58; The Rev Vivian Green, former rector, Lincoln College, Oxford, 78; Mr David Hemmings, actor and director, 52; Mr John Hosier, director, Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts, 65; Admiral of the Fleet Sir Henry Leach, chairman of St Dunstan's, 70; Lord Mackenzie-Stuart, former European Court judge, 69; Mr Graham Parker, singer and songwriter, 43; Mr Alan Pryce-Jones, author and critic, 85; Professor John Quayle, former Vice-Chancellor, Bath University 67; Mr Alan Shepard, astronaut, 70; Sir Murray Stuart-Smith, a Lord Justice of Appeal, 66; Miss Brenda Vaccaro, actress, 54; Sir Tasker Watkins VC, a Lord Justice of Appeal, and Deputy Chief Justice of England, 75; Miss Kim Wilde, singer, 33.