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Your support makes all the difference.TODAY: Mr Nigel Beard MP, 62; Mr Lance Cairns, cricketer, 49; Sir John Cassels, former Director-General, NEDO, 70; Mr Charles Dance, actor, 52; Miss Laura Davies, golfer, 35; Mrs Karlene Davis, Deputy General Secretary, Royal College of Midwives, 52; Mr Ted Edgar, show jumper, 63; Miss Fiona Fullerton, actress, 42; Sir Peter Kemp, former civil servant, 64; Lord Kincraig, former Senator of the College of Justice in Scotland, 80; Professor John Large, acoustics engineer, 68; Mr Nicholas Parsons, broadcaster, 70; The Right Rev Kenneth Pillar, former Suffragan Bishop of Hertford, 74; Mr Harold Pinter, playwright, 68; Mr Bill Rammell MP, 39; Professor Brian Smith, Principal, University of Wales, College of Cardiff, 65; The Earl of Stockton, publisher, 55; Mr Chris Tarrant, broadcaster, 52; Mr Frank H. Taylor, former MP and chartered accountant, 91; Mr Richard Thornton, former Lord- Lieutenant of Surrey, 76; Mr Midge Ure, singer, 45; Mr Ben Vereen, actor, 52; Mr Willard White, baritone, 52.
TOMORROW: Sir Anthony Beaumont-Dark, former MP, 66; Miss Maria Bueno, tennis player, 59; The Hon Sir Adam Butler, former MP and government minister, 67; Sir Bobby Charlton, footballer, 61; Professor Robert Cohen, Chairman, Imperial Cancer Research Fund, 65; Vice-Admiral Sir John Coward, Lieutenant Governor of Guernsey, 61; Sir Timothy Daunt, former ambassador to Turkey, 63; Sir Michael Edwardes, company chairman, 68; Mr Tony Evans, Head Master, King's College School, Wimbledon, 53; Miss Dawn French, actress and comedienne, 41; Mr Geoffrey Haslam, insurance company director, 84; Sir Denys Henderson, chairman, the Rank Organisation, 66; Mr Charles Jones, grants administrator, CfBT Education Services, UK, 64; Vice-Admiral Sir Ian McIntosh, 79; Mr Alan Pascoe, former Olympic hurdler, 51; Lord Prior, chairman, GEC, 71; Mr David Rendall, tenor, 50; Dame Paddy Ridsdale, 77; Miss Marsha Singh MP, 44; Air Chief Marshal Sir Michael Stear, 60; Lord Tordoff, former President of the Liberal Party, 70; Mr Thomas Wheare, Headmaster, Bryanston School, 54; Mr Richard Wilson, civil servant, 56; Mr Tony Worthington MP, Parliamentary Under-Secretary, Northern Ireland Office, 57.
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