Birthdays

TODAY: Miss Brigid Brophy, novelist, 64; Mr George Bush, former President, of the US 69; Mr Mark Calcavecchia, golfer, 33; Mr Charles Clark, lawyer and publisher, 60; Mr John Copley, operatic producer, 60; Mr Vic Damone, singer, 65; Mr Michael Fabricant MP, 43; Sir Peter Froggatt, Pro-Chancellor, Dublin University, 65; Mr Roy Harper, rock singer and songwriter, 52; Lady Herries of Terregles, racehorse trainer, 55; Sir Kenneth Hollings, High Court judge, 75; Mr Pat Jennings, footballer, 48; Mr Peter Jones, actor, 73; Sir Paul Kennedy, a Lord Justice of Appeal, 58; Mr Oliver Knussen, composer and conductor, 41; Miss Priscilla Lane, actress, 76; Lord McCluskey, a Senator in the College of Justice in Scotland, 64; Dr Ernest Mario, deputy chairman, Glaxo Holdings, 55; Lord Mayhew, former government minister, 78; Mr Jackie Pallo, wrestler, 67; Mr Robert Smith, show-jumper, 32; Mr JWM Thompson, former editor, the Sunday Telegraph, 73; Mr John Townend MP, 59; The Very Rev Dr Ronald Selby Wright, Minister Emeritus of the Canongate, Edinburgh, 85.

TOMORROW: Major Sir Ralph Anstruther, Equerry to the Queen Mother, 72; Mr Nicholas Brown MP, 43; Mr David Curry MP, Minister of State for the Environment, 49; Mr Timothy Devlin MP, 34; Professor Inga-Stina Ewbank, professor of English literature, Leeds University, 61; Lord Finsberg, former MP, 67; Sir Maxwell Harper Gow, former chairman, Christian Salvesen, 75; Mr Gwynne Howell, opera bass singer, 55; Mr Tom King MP, 60; Capt Norman Lloyd-Edwards, Lord-Lieutenant of South Glamorgan, 60; Mr Malcolm McDowell, actor, 50; Sir Peter Marychurch, former director, GCHQ, 66; Mr Michael Melluish, president of the MCC, 61; Dr Barbara Reynolds, lexicographer, 79; Colonel Sir John Ruggles-Brise, former Lord-Lieutenant of Essex, 85; Dr Bertram Schofield, former Egerton Librarian, British Museum, 97; Mr Peter Scudamore, jockey, 35; Mrs Mary Whitehouse, president, National Viewers' and Listeners' Association, 83; Mr Andreas Whittam Smith, editor, the Independent, and chief executive, Newspaper Publishing, 56.