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Birthdays

Mr Anthony Andrews, actor, 50; Mr Michael Aspel, television presenter, 65; Mr Herbert Barratt, former trade union leader, 93; Lord Boardman, former chairman, National Westminster Bank, 79; Mr Pieter Willem Botha, former president of South Africa, 82; Sir James Bottomley, former diplomat, 78; The Hon Sir Richard Butler, former president, National Farmers' Union, 69; Dame Fiona Caldicott, consultant psychotherapist, 56; Lady Cosgrove QC, a Senator of the College of Justice of Scotland, 51; Miss Stella Cunliffe, statistician, 81; Mr Keith Dawson, former headmaster, Haberdashers' Aske's School, 61; Mr Brendan Foster, former Olympic athlete, 50; Mr Joe Frazier, heavyweight boxer, 54; Baroness Hamwee, solicitor and local councillor, 51; Baroness Hilton of Eggardon, former Head of Training, Metropolitan Police, 62; Miss Anne Howells, opera and concert singer, 57; Sir Anthony McCowan, a former Lord Justice of Appeal, 70; Mr Denys Milne, former managing director, BP Oil, 72; Mr James Mortimer, former general secretary of the Labour Party, 77; The Very Rev Dr John Moses, Dean of St Paul's, 59; Mr Des O'Connor, comedian, singer and television presenter, 66; Miss Luise Rainer, actress and painter, 88; Sir John Rennie, former Commissioner- General, UNRWA, 81; Sir Terence Streeton, former diplomat, 68; Sir Swinton Thomas, a Lord Justice of Appeal, 67.

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