Birthdays

Mr Jonathan Aitken MP, Chief Secretary to the Treasury, 52; Dr Barbara Ansell, rheumatologist, 71; Miss Elizabeth Ashley, actress, 55; Sir Harold Atcherley, chairman, the Aldeburgh Foundation, 76; Sir Patrick Branigan QC, former Attorney-General, Gold Coast, 88; Sir Charles Burman, former chairman, Tarmac, 86; Mr Allan Davis, actor, director and producer, 81; Mr Kenneth Gill, former trade union leader, 67; Dr Alan Gilmour, former director, NSPCC, 66; Mr Martin Harris, chartered accountant and company director, 72; Lord Healey CH, former government minister, 77; Air Marshal Sir Frank Holroyd, former Chief Engineer, RAF, 59; Miss Jayne Irving, television presenter, 38; Lord Keith of Castleacre, merchant banker, 78; Dr Jeremy Lee-Potter, haematologist and former chairman, British Medical Association, 60; The Countess of Longford, writer, 88; Mr William McAlister, cultural programme coordinator, Soros Foundations, 54; Miss Sue MacGregor, BBC radio presenter, 53; Dr Peter North, vice-Chancellor, Oxford University, 58; Sir Peter Parker, chairman, Evered Bardon plc, 70; Mr John Peel, disc jockey, 55; Sir Henry Phillips, former colonial administrator, 80; Miss Audrey Scott, former headmistress, Queen Anne's School, Caversham, 60; Mr George Stevenson MP, 56; Professor John Thoday, geneticist, 78; The Very Rev Professor Thomas Torrance, theologian, 81; Sir Philip Woodfield, former senior civil servant, 71.