Birthdays
Mr Hugh Arbuthnott, ambassador to Portugal, 57; Mrs Anne Armstrong, director, General Motors and Halliburton Company, former US ambassador to Britain, 66; Mr Christopher Benjamin, actor, 59; Sir Gordon Brunton, company chairman, 72; Mr John Coolican, rugby player, 40; Sir Thomas Devitt, former rugby player and shipbroker, 91; Lord Griffiths of Fforestfach, banking and finance authority, 52; Air Chief Marshal Sir Derek Hodgkinson, former Air Secretary, 76; the Earl of Inchcape, industrialist, 76; Mr Mick Jones, rock musician, 52; Viscount Knutsford, former SW Regional Director, Barclays Bank, 67; Miss Pat Moss, former rally driver, 59; Professor Donald Northcote, plant biochemist, 72; Mr Mike Pender, rock singer, 51; Mr Peter Quaife, rock musician, 50; Professor Brinley Rees, classical scholar, 74; Sir Norman Reid, former director of the Tate Gallery, 78; Dr Edward Salthouse, Master, University College, Durham, 58; Lord Sterling of Plaistow, chairman, P & O, 59; Miss Janet Street-Porter, broadcaster and writer, 47; The Right Rev Michael Turnbull, Bishop of Rochester, 58; Brigadier Dame Mary Tyrwhitt, former Director of the WRAC, 90.
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