Gazette: Birthdays

Birthdays

TODAY: Dr Madge Adam, astronomer, 87; Lt-Gen Sir Norman Arthur, Lord- Lieutenant, Dumfries and Galloway Region, 68; Miss Jean Boht, actress, 63; Mr William Davis, editor and publisher of High Life, 66; Miss Kiki Dee, rock singer, 52; Lord Dixon, former MP, 70; Mr David Gilmour, rock guitarist and singer, 55; Mr Richard Giordano, chairman, BG plc, 65; Sir Alistair Grant, chairman, Scottish & Newcastle plc, 62; Professor David Hendry, economist, 55; Professor Sir Raymond Hoffenburg, former President, Wolfson College, Oxford, 76; Miss Judy Loe, actress, 52; Mr Lorin Maazel, conductor, 69; Sir Hal Miller, former MP, 70; Mr Malcolm Moss MP, 56; Mr John Noakes, actor and television presenter, 65; Mr Richard Noble, world land speed record holder, 53; Mr Peter Roebuck, cricketer, 43; Sir Ian Dixon Scott, former ambassador, 90; The Right Rev Lord Sheppard of Liverpool, former Bishop of Liverpool, 70; Dame Kiri Te Kanawa, operatic soprano, 55; Dr David Whitaker, Director, Imperial Cancer Research Fund Trading Ltd, 68; Miss Mary Wilson, singer, 55; Sir Oliver Wright, former ambassador in Washington, 78.

TOMORROW: Sir Robert Atkinson, former chairman, British Shipbuilders, 83; Mr William Boyd, writer, 47; Mr William Bromley- Davenport, Lord-Lieutenant of Cheshire, 64; Mr Michael Chance, counter- tenor, 44; Mr Malcolm Chisholm MP, Parliamentary Under-Secretary, Scottish Office, 50; Mr Gilbert Cooke, former chairman, C.T. Bowring & Co, 76; Mr Michael Finnissy, composer and pianist, 53; Mrs Deborah Forbes, Headmistress, Queen Anne's School, Reading, 53; Sir Kenneth Green, Vice-Chancellor, Manchester Metropolitan University, 65; Sir Anthony Hidden, High Court judge, 63; Mr John Horam MP, 60; Mr Dan Jacobson, novelist, 70; Mr Nicholas Kraemer, conductor, 54; Sir Anthony Lambert, former ambassador to Portugal, 88; Sir John Latey, former High Court judge, 85; Mr Ivan Lendl, tennis player, 39; Sir Paul Nicholson, Lord- Lieutenant of County Durham, 61; Lord Oliver of Aylmerton, a former Lord Justice of Appeal in Ordinary, 78; Professor Sir Eduardo Paolozzi, sculptor, 75; Mr Piers Paul Read, novelist and writer, 58; Mr Viv Richards, cricketer, 47; Mr Mark Rowland, athlete, 36; The Earl of Snowdon, photographer, 69; Sir David Spedding, Chief of the Secret Intelligence Service, 56; Sir Ranulph Twistleton-Wykeham-Fiennes, explorer, 55; Miss Zena Walker, actress, 65; Dame Margaret Weston, former Director of the Science Museum, 73.