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Thursday 13 March 1997 00:02 GMT
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Birthdays

Miss Valerie Amos, former Chief Executive, Equal Opportunities Commission, 43; Lord Borrie QC, former Director-General of Fair Trading, 66; Mr Terence Brady, playwright, novelist and actor, 58; Lord Butterworth, former Vice- Chancellor, Warwick University, 79; Sir Michael Checkland, former Director- General of the BBC, 61; Miss Lesley Collier, ballerina, 50; Mr Lionel Friend, conductor, and musical director, Nexus Opera, 52; Sir Graham Hart, permanent secretary, Department of Health, 57; Sir Robert Mark, former Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, 80; Mr James Marshall MP, 56; Sir Henry Nevile, former Lord Lieutenant of Lincolnshire, 77; Dr David Peace, glass engraver and town planner, 82; Air Commodore Helen Renton, former director, WRAF, 66; Mr Neil Sedaka, songwriter and singer, 58; Mr Peter Viggers MP, 59.

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