Birthdays

Mr John Alldis, conductor, 63; Mr Noah Beery, actor, 76; Sir Frank Bowden Bt, retired landowner and industrialist, 83; Dame Gillian Brown, former diplomat, 69; Dame Elizabeth Butler-Sloss, a Lord Justice of Appeal, 59; Sir Lawrence Byford, management consultant, 67; Mrs Leila Campbell, former chairman, ILEA, 81; General Sir George Cooper, Chief Royal Engineer, 67; Professor Alexander Goehr, composer, 60; Cardinal Gordon Gray, former Archbishop of St Andrews and Edinburgh, 82; Sir Alan Hardcastle, head of Government Accountancy Service, 59; Mr Leonard Lickorish, former Director-General, British Travel Association, 71; John MacLeod of MacLeod, Chief of MacLeod, 57; Mrs Barbara Mills, QC, director, Serious Fraud Office, 52; Miss Kate O'Mara, actress, 53; Lord Porritt, former Sergeant-Surgeon to the Queen and Governor-General of New Zealand, 92; Lord Stewartby, former MP, 57; Mrs Elizabeth Thomas, literary consultant, 73; Mr Richard Wells, chief constable, South Yorkshire, 52; Miss Jane Wyatt, actress, 81; Mr George Wynn-Williams, gynaecologist, 81.