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Tuesday 06 August 1996 23:02 BST
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Birthdays

Mr David Allan, disc jockey, 57; The Right Rev David Bentley, Bishop of Gloucester, 61; Air Commodore Colin Cadell, 91; Mr Greg Chappell, cricketer, 48; Mr Neil Clarke, chairman, British Coal, 62; Professor Herbert Elvin, former director, London University Institute of Education, 91; Mr Matthew Evans, chairman, Faber and Faber, 55; Sir Ian Fraser, former deputy chairman of TSB, 73; Mr Stan Freberg, satirist, 70; The Right Rev Andrew Graham, Bishop of Newcastle, 67; Sir Paul Hawkins, former MP, 84; Mr Kenneth Kendall, broadcaster, 72; Sir Andrew Large, chairman, Securities and Investment Board, 54; Miss Sue Lloyd, actress, 57; Mr Owen Luder, architect, 68; Dame Ella Macknight, gynaecologist, 92; Vice-Admiral Sir Hector Maclean, 88; Mr Matthew Parris, journalist and broadcaster, 47; Mr Nick Ross, journalist and broadcaster, 49; Mr Alexei Sayle, comedian, 44; Baroness Seear, deputy leader of the Liberal Democrats in the House of Lords, 83; Mr Philip Snow, author, 81; Mr Roger Stott MP, 53; Mr Walter Swinburn, jockey, 35; Mr John Young, chairman and chief executive, Young & Co's Brewery, 75.

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