Birthdays

Asfa Wossen Haile Selassie, Crown Prince of Ethiopia, 78; Mr Michael Ball, singer, 32; Mr Allan Border, cricketer, 39; Lord Cawley, former barrister, 81; Mr Peter Coker, artist, 68; Miss Anna Dawson, actress and comedienne, 57; Mr Christopher Dean, figure skater, 36; Sir Ronald Dearing, former chairman of the Post Office, 64; Miss Jo Durie, tennis player, 34; Miss Bobbie Gentry, singer, 52; Dame Mary Green, former Headmistress, Kidbrooke School, 81; Mr Jack Higgins (Harry Patterson), novelist, 65; Lord Jenkins of Putney, former government minister, 86; Professor James McGee, Professor of Morbid Anatomy, Oxford University, 55; Mr John Pardoe, chairman, Sight and Sound Education and former MP, 60; Sir Denis Rickett, former senior civil servant, 87; Baroness Williams of Crosby, former president, Social Democratic Party, 64.