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Wednesday 01 January 1997 20:02 EST
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Birthdays

Mr David Bailey, photographer and film director, 59; Sir Richard Bayliss, former Physician to the Queen, 80; Mr Leopold Brook, former chairman, Simon Engineering, 85; Mr Christopher Campbell, chairman, British Shipbuilders, 61; Admiral William J. Crowe, US ambassador, 72; The Duke of Devonshire, former Chancellor of Manchester University, 77; Professor Sir Kingsley Dunham, former Director, Institute of Geological Sciences, 87; Mr David Graveney, cricketer, 43; Mr Walter Harrison, former MP, 76; Mr Algernon Heber-Percy, Lord-Lieutenant for Shropshire, 53; Mr Piers Merchant MP, 46; Sir Bruce Pattullo, Governor, Bank of Scotland, 59; Sir Charles Reece, former research and technology director, ICI, 70; Mr Edmund de Rothschild, director, N.M. Rothschild and Sons, 81; Air Marshal Sir Ernest Sidey, 84; Professor John Thomas, chemist, 71; Sir Keith Thomas, President, Corpus Christi College, Oxford, 64; Sir Michael Tippett, composer, 92; Dame Rachel Waterhouse, former chairman, Consumers' Association, 74; Mr Robert Wilmot, chairman, Wilmot Enterprises Ltd, 52; The Right Rev Kenneth Woollcombe, Assistant Bishop, Worcester, 73.

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