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Birthdays

Sir Walter Bodmer, Principal, Hertford College, Oxford, 61; Mr Eddie Cheever, motor-racing driver, 39; Sir Robin Chichester-Clark, former MP and government minister, 69; Mr Thomas Clarke MP, 56; Sir Arthur Gold, honorary life president of the European Athletic Association, 80; Mr Derek Hammond-Stroud, operatic baritone, 71; Sir David Hopkin, former Chief Metropolitan Stipendiary Magistrate, 75; Sir Derek Hornby, former chairman, British Overseas Trade Board, 67; Mr Thomas Hutton, former chief executive of Total Oil, 76; Miss Dorothy Malone, actress, 72; Sir Robert Marshall, former chairman of the National Water Council, 77; Dr Peter Mathias, former Master, Downing College, Cambridge, 69; Sir David Miers, former ambassador to the Netherlands, 60; Sir David Neuberger, High Court judge, 48; Mr Denis Peach, former Chief Charity Commissioner, 69; Mr Alan Protheroe, journalist and broadcaster, 63; Mr Anton Rodgers, actor, 64; Mr Freddie Starr, comedian, 53; Mr Rod Stewart, rock singer, 52; Mrs Valerie Strachan, chairman, Board of Customs and Excise, 57; Mr Stephen Wall, UK Permanent Representative to the European Union, 50; Mr Erroll J. Yates, former chairman and managing director, Kodak, 67.

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