TODAY
Aung San Suu Kyi, co-founder of the National League for Democracy, Burma, 59; Jeremy Bates, tennis player, 42; Sir Neil Chalmers, Director of The Natural History Museum, 62; Lieutenant-General Sir Peter Duffell, Commander of the British Forces, Hong Kong, and Major-General of the Brigade of Gurkhas, 1989-92, 65; Sir Michael Jay, Permanent Under-Secretary of State at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, and Head of the Diplomatic Service, 58; Boris Johnson, Editor of The Spectator and Conservative MP for Henley, 40; Bryan Kneale, sculptor, 74; the Earl of Minto, Vice Lord-Lieutenant, Borders Region (Roxburgh, Ettrick and Lauderdale), 1992-2003, 76; Rear-Admiral Sir Morgan Morgan-Giles, Conservative MP for Winchester, 1964-79, 90; Brigadier Eileen Nolan, Director of the Women’s Royal Army Corps, 1973-77, 84; Salman Rushdie, writer, 57; Sir Alfred Shepperd, chairman and chief executive of the Wellcome Foundation, 1977-90, 79; Rory Underwood, rugby player, 41.
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TOMORROW
Professor William Balchin, geographer, 88; Professor Arthur Bell, Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, 1981-88, 78; Lord Brightman, a Lord of Appeal in Ordinary, 1982-86, 93; Wendy Craig, actress, 70; Stafford Dean, opera singer, 67; Stephen Frears, film director, 63; the Duchess of Gloucester, 58; Allan Lamb, cricketer, 50; S.G. Metcalfe, chairman of Ranks Hovis McDougall, 1989-93, 72; Sir David Mitchell, Minister for Transport, 1986-88, 76; Lionel Richie, singer and songwriter, 55; B. W. Robinson, writer on Persian and Japanese art, 92; Vikram Seth, novelist, 52; Professor Sir Richard Southwood, Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University, 1989-93, and zoologist, 73; Claire Tomalin, writer, 71; Sir Haydn Tudor Evans, High Court judge, 1974-94, 84; the Right Rev John Waine, Bishop of Chelmsford, 1986-96, 74; Brian Wilson, singer, composer and former Beach Boy, 62.