• 1 January •
Barbara Goalen, model (died 2002) •
John Strawson, English general and military writer (died 2014) •
Helen Yate, swimmer (died 2020) • 2 January •
Kenneth Griffith, actor (died 2006) •
Walter Harrison, politician (died 2012) • 4 January •
Eric Bradbury, comic artist (died 2001) •
Katharine Macmillan, Viscountess Macmillan of Ovenden, politician and aristocrat (died 2017) • 8 January –
John Lambert, diplomat (died 2015) • 9 January •
Robin Coombs, immunologist (died 2006) •
Roy Farran, soldier and author (died 2006) • 10 January •
Peggy Evans, actress (died 2015) •
Andrew Humphrey, senior officer (died 1977) • 11 January –
Kathleen Byron, actress (died 2009) • 12 January –
Jim Mortimer, trade unionist (died 2013) • 14 January –
Kenneth Bulmer, author (died 2005) • 15 January •
John Terraine, military historian (died 2003) •
Frank Thornton, actor (died 2013) • 16 January •
Geoffrey Eastop, potter (died 2014) •
George Thomson, journalist and politician (died 2008) • 18 January •
Alfred Ball, air marshal (died 2012) •
Roy Orrock, World War II pilot (died 2002) • 20 January •
Dick Hern, racehorse trainer (died 2002) •
Mike Peyton, cartoonist (died 2017) • 21 January –
Charles Eric Maine, writer (died 1981) • 22 January •
Kevin Stoney, actor (died 2008) •
Arthur Turner, footballer (died 2019) • 23 January –
Mary Wixey, track and field athlete (died 2017) • 24 January –
Charles Jacob, stockbroker (died 2015) • 25 January •
Peter Bayley, academic (died 2015) •
Peter Jost, mechanical engineer (died 2016) • 26 January –
Elisabeth Kirkby, English-born Australian actress, writer and politician (died 2026) • 27 January –
Maurice Macmillan, politician (died 1984) • 31 January •
Jimmy Deane, Trotskyist (died 2002) •
Arthur Goddard, English-born Australian engineer (died 2022) •
Ralph Harris, journalist (died 2008) • 1 February •
Peter Sallis, actor (died 2017) •
Patricia Robins, writer and WAAF officer (died 2016) • 3 February –
George E. Felton, French-born computer scientist (died 2019) • 4 February •
Peter Ashmore, admiral (died 2002) •
Branse Burbridge, World War Two fighter pilot (died 2016) • 5 February •
Marion Eames, novelist (died 2007) •
John Pritchard, conductor (died 1989) •
Sir Ken Adam, German-born British production designer (died 2016) • 6 February –
Margaret Moncrieff, cellist (died 2008) • 7 February •
Tito Burns, musician (died 2010) •
Denis Shaw, character actor (died 1971) • 9 February –
Leslie Collier, virologist (died 2011) • 14 February –
Graham Leggett, RAF squadron leader (died 2013) • 16 February •
Bob Evans, Welsh rugby union player (died 2003) •
John Galbraith Graham, crossword compiler and priest (died 2013) •
John Hasted, physicist and musician (died 2002) •
Gerard Mansell, BBC executive (died 2010) • 17 February –
John Hasted, physicist and musician (died 2002) • 20 February –
Alex Thomson, Scottish rugby union player (died 2010) • 21 February –
Morris Beckman, writer and anti-fascist activist (died 2015) • 22 February –
David Greene, actor and film director (died 2003) • 24 February –
Pat Kirkwood, actress (died 2007) • 26 February –
Frank Caldwell, army general (died 2014) • 28 February –
J. F. C. Harrison, historian (died 2018) • 1 March •
Kenny Baker, jazz trumpeter (died 1999) •
Jack Clayton, film director (died 1995) •
Michael Kerr, German-born judge (died 2002) • 2 March •
Christopher Lloyd, gardener and gardening writer (died 2006) •
Robert Simpson, composer (died 1997) • 4 March •
Jane Fawcett, codebreaker, singer and heritage preservationist (died 2016) •
Joan Greenwood, actress (died 1987) •
John Ryan, cartoonist (died 2009) • 7 March –
Eleanor Summerfield, actress (died 2001) • 10 March •
William Blezard, composer (died 2003) •
John Christoforou, painter (died 2014) • 11 March –
Philip Rahtz, archaeologist (died 2011) • 12 March –
Joe Fagan, footballer and manager (died 2001) • 13 March •
Cyril Poole, cricketer (died 1996) •
Gitta Sereny, Austrian-born author (died 2012) • 15 March •
David Cobb, marine artist (died 2014) •
Philip Powell, architect (died 2003) • 16 March –
Eileen Nearne, agent (died 2010) • 18 March –
Arthur Keily, marathon runner (died 2016) • 19 March •
Chris Barber, businessman (died 2012) •
Tommy Cooper, Welsh-born comedian and magician (died 1984) • 21 March –
Antony Hopkins, composer, conductor and pianist (died 2014) • 22 March –
Tim Vigors, World War II fighter pilot (died 2003) • 23 March •
Donald Campbell, water and land speed record seeker (died 1967) •
Geoffrey Chater, actor and poet (died 2021) •
David Ince, Scottish World War II RAF officer (died 2017) • 25 March •
Mary Douglas, social anthropologist (died 2007) •
Peter Horsley, RAF commander (died 2001) • 26 March –
Julie Harris, costume designer (died 2015) • 27 March •
Harry Clarke, footballer and cricketer (died 2015) •
Richard Marner, actor (born in the Soviet Union; died 2004) • 28 March –
Dirk Bogarde, actor and author (died 1999) • 29 March •
Johnny Lawrenson, English
rugby league winger (died 2010) •
Hugh Neill, businessman (died 2017) •
Tony Sutton, cricketer (died 2019) • 30 March •
Tony Honoré, lawyer and jurist (died 2019) •
Elizabeth Sutherland, 24th Countess of Sutherland, Scottish noblewoman (died 2019) • 31 March •
James I. C. Boyd, author and railway historian (died 2009) •
Milein Cosman, German-born artist (died 2017) •
Roy Houghton, footballer • 1 April •
William J. Fishman, academic (died 2014) •
Steve Race, pianist, composer and radio presenter (died 2009) • 5 April •
Patricia Ford, Northern Irish politician (died 1995) •
Les Jackson, English cricketer (died 2007) •
Christopher Hewett, English actor (died 2001) • 6 April –
Philip Moore, Baron Moore of Wolvercote, private secretary to
Queen Elizabeth II (died 2009) • 9 April –
George Bryan, businessman (died 2013) • 10 April •
Elizabeth Innes, paediatric haematologist (died 2015) •
Robert Wade, New Zealand-born chess player (died 2008) • 13 April –
Joan Rhodes, actress and entertainer (died 2010) • 15 April –
Charlie Kelsall, Welsh footballer (died 2019) • 16 April –
Peter Ustinov, actor, writer, dramatist and raconteur (died 2004) • 17 April –
Jack Watson, cricketer (died 2012) • 20 April –
Peter Baker, English soldier, author, publisher and politician (died 1966) • 21 April –
Joe Mence, cricketer (died 2014) • 23 April •
Gerald Campion, actor (died 2002) •
Derek Granger, producer and screenwriter (died 2022) • 25 April •
Lawrence Allen, Olympic racewalker (died 2018) •
John Lucas, Army officer (died 2013) • 27 April –
John Stott, British Anglican cleric, Christian author (died
2011) • 30 April –
Gordon Mulholland, actor (died 2010) • 1 May –
Michael Willoughby, 12th Baron Middleton, peer and politician (died 2011) • 3 May •
Douglas Milmine, prelate (died 2017) •
Gordon Murray, television producer and puppeteer (died 2016) • 4 May •
John Goodwin, theatre publicist and writer (died 2018) •
Stephen Hastings, politician (died 2005) •
Corran Purdon, Irish-born army major general (died 2018) •
Norman Sillman, sculptor and coin designer (died 2013) • 5 May •
Mavis Batey, codebreaker (died 2013) •
John Cavanagh, neurobiologist (died 2019) • 6 May –
Elizabeth Sellars, Scottish actress (died 2019) • 7 May –
Asa Briggs, historian (died 2016) • 8 May –
Graham Leonard, bishop (died 2010) • 9 May –
Rosemary Pratt, Marchioness Camden, artist, noblewoman and socialite (died 2004) • 11 May –
Geoffrey Crossley, race car driver (died 2002) • 13 May –
Bill Jones, footballer (died 2010) • 15 May –
Alan Huggins, judge (died 2009) • 17 May •
Jim Bradley, athletics coach (died 2015) •
Dennis Brain, horn player (died 1957) •
Owen Wade, medical researcher and physician (died 2008) • 18 May •
Joan Eardley, painter (died 1963) • Sir
Anthony Epstein, medical researcher (died 2024) •
Olgierd Zienkiewicz, academic (died 2009) • 19 May •
Leslie Broderick, Royal Air Force officer (died 2013) •
Pauline Clarke, author (died 2013) •
Leslie Sands, actor (died 2001) • 21 May •
Peggy Cripps, children's author and socialite (died 2006) •
Sandy Douglas, computer scientist (died 2010) • 22 May –
John Francis Marchment Middleton, anthropologist (died 2009) • 23 May •
John Cloudsley-Thompson, naturalist and army officer (died 2013) •
Humphrey Lyttelton, jazz musician and broadcaster (died 2008) • 26 May –
Stan Mortensen, English footballer (died 1991) • 27 May –
Bob Godfrey, animator (died 2013) • 29 May –
Elizabeth Kelly, actress (died 2025) • 31 May –
Edna Doré, actress (died 2014) • 3 June –
John Fage, historian (died 2002) • 5 June •
George Dews, cricketer (died 2003) •
John Fenton, priest and scholar (died 2008) • 8 June •
Gordon Campbell, Baron Campbell of Croy, politician (died 2005) •
Alwyn Williams, geologist (died 2004) • 10 June –
Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, Greek-born royal and
consort of the British monarch (died 2021) • 11 June –
Rodney Hill, mathematician (died 2011) • 12 June –
Christopher Derrick, writer (died 2007) • 14 June –
Leslie Gooday, architect (died 2013) • 22 June –
Roland Gibbs, head of the British Army, from 1976 to 1979 (died 2004) • 23 June –
Edward Sismore, RAF officer (died 2012) • 25 June –
Dennis Wilson, poet (died 2022) • 27 June •
Alan Colquhoun, architect, historian, critic and teacher (died 2012) •
Muriel Pavlow, actress (died 2019) • 29 June •
Fiennes Cornwallis, 3rd Baron Cornwallis, life peer (died 2010) •
Jean Kent, actress (died 2013) • 3 July –
R. E. G. Davies, aviation historian (died 2011) • 4 July – Frederick Sydney Waller, shipbuilder (died 2016) • 7 July –
Joe Wade, English footballer and manager (died 2005) • 8 July –
Derek Rawcliffe, Anglican prelate (died 2011) • 11 July –
Gretel Beer, Austrian-born cookery and travel writer (died 2010) • 13 July –
Gerard Mansfield, admiral (died 2006) • 14 July –
Leon Garfield, children's historical novelist (died 1996) • 15 July –
Jean Heywood, actress (died 2019) • 18 July –
Peter Austin, brewer (died 2014) • 19 July –
Diana Elles, Baroness Elles, British barrister, United Nations representative from the United Kingdom (died 2009) • 20 July –
Bob Block, comedy writer (died 2011) • 21 July –
Felix Hope-Nicholson, aristocrat and genealogist (died 1990) • 23 July •
Robert Brown, actor (died 2003) •
Harry Hookway, civil servant and chief executive (died 2014) • 26 July –
John S. R. Duncan, diplomat (died 2006) • 29 July •
Michael Davies, jurist (died 2006) •
Bettina Shaw-Lawrence, painter (died 2018) • 30 July –
Diana Boddington, stage manager (died 2002) • 31 July –
Peter Benenson, lawyer and human rights campaigner (died 2005) • 1 August •
Joyce Baldwin, evangelical biblical scholar and theologist educator (died 1995) •
Patrick Kay, general (died 2013) • 4 August –
Geoffrey Wellum, fighter pilot and author (died 2018) • 5 August –
Christopher Ewart-Biggs, ambassador and diplomat (died 1976) • 6 August –
Ronald Grierson, German-born banker and businessman (died 2014) • 8 August •
Alan Muir Wood, civil engineer (died 2009) •
David Pears, philosopher (died 2009) • 9 August –
Patricia Marmont, actress (died 2020) • 10 August –
Jack Archer, athlete (died 1997) • 11 August –
Tom Kilburn, co-inventor of the
Williams-Kilburn tube, used for memory in early computer systems (died 2001) • 12 August –
Patrick Howard-Dobson, army general (died 2009) • 13 August -
Mary Lee, singer (died 2022) • 15 August –
Patrick Nairne, civil servant (died 2013) • 17 August –
Elinor Lyon, children's writer (died 2008) • 18 August •
Francis Arthur Jefferson, World war army veteran (died 1982) •
Norman MacKenzie, journalist, educationalist and historian (died 2013) •
Gordon Thomas, Olympic silver-medal cyclist (died 2013) • 20 August –
Edward Williams, composer (died 2013) • 22 August •
James Menter, physicist (died 2006) •
Tony Pawson, cricketer and writer (died 2012) • 24 August •
Dudley Kernick, footballer (died 2019) •
Eric Simms, ornithologist, writer and conservationist (died 2009) •
Sam Tingle, English-Zimbabwean racing driver (died 2008) • 26 August –
Alan Townsend, cricketer (died 2014) • 27 August –
Trevor Baker, meteorologist (died 2016) • 29 August •
Paddy Roy Bates, pirate radio broadcaster (died 2012) •
Mary Donaldson, Baroness Donaldson of Lymington, politician (died 2003) • 31 August –
James Cleminson, soldier and businessman (died 2010) • 1 September •
Daphne Park, diplomat and spy (died 2010) •
Austin Pearce, industrialist (died 2004) • 3 September •
Bert Bushnell, Olympic gold medal-winning rower (died 2010) •
Thurston Dart, harpsichordist, conductor (died 1971) •
Bill Dean, actor (died 2000) •
Cab Kaye, jazz singer and pianist (died 2000) •
Sydney Knowles, Royal Navy frogman (died 2012) • 5 September –
Kenneth Shearwood, cricketer (died 2018) • 6 September –
John Bickersteth, British Anglican prelate (died 2018) • 7 September –
Ronald Brown, politician (died 2002) • 8 September –
Harry Secombe, entertainer (died 2001) • 11 September •
Christopher Freeman, economist (died 2010) •
Edwin Richfield, actor and screenwriter (died 1990) • 15 September •
Richard Gordon, author (died 2017) •
Clive Rose, diplomat (died 2019) • 16 September –
Peter Russell, poet, translator and critic (died 2003) • 18 September –
Sydney Cohen, South African-born pathologist (died 2017) • 19 September –
Conway Berners-Lee, mathematician and computer scientist (died 2019) • 20 September •
Leon Comber, author (died 2023) •
Horace Gould, racing driver (died 1968) • 21 September –
Jimmy Young, singer and radio broadcaster (died 2016) • 22 September –
Charles Simeons, politician and pollution control consultant (died 2014) • 25 September –
Alf Patrick, footballer (died 2021) • 27 September –
Dennis Nineham, theologian and academic (died 2016) • 29 September •
James Cross, Irish-English diplomat (died 2021) •
Edward Norfolk, priest (died 2017) •
Albie Roles, footballer (died 2012) •
Francis Rose, botanist (died 2006) • 30 September –
Deborah Kerr, actress (died 2007) • 2 October •
Edmund Crispin, writer and composer (died 1978) •
Robert Runcie,
Archbishop of Canterbury (died 2000) • 6 October –
Val Biro, children's author, artist and illustrator (died 2014) • 7 October •
John Gere, art historian and curator (died 1995) •
Michael Hoban, teacher (died 2003) • 8 October •
Michael Fox, judge (died 2007) •
Robert Scholey, business executive (died 2014) • 10 October –
Neil Carmichael, politician (died 2001) • 11 October –
Paddy Ridsdale, Lady Ridsdale, politician and World War II agent (died 2009) • 12 October •
Kenneth Griffith, actor (died 2006) •
Logie Bruce Lockhart, Scottish rugby player and journalist (died 2020) • 15 October •
Alan Smith, footballer (died 2019) •
Geoffrey Russell, 4th Baron Ampthill, peer and businessman (died 2011) • 21 October •
Malcolm Arnold, composter (died 2006) •
Herbert Gutfreund, Austrian-born biochemist (died 2021) •
John Wilton, diplomat (died 2011) • 22 October •
Charles Ede, publisher (died 2002) •
David Williams, admiral and governor (died 2012) • 23 October –
Archie Lamb, diplomat, writer and businessman (died 2021) • 28 October –
Stan Palk, footballer (died 2009) • 2 November •
Pearl Carr, singer (died 2020) •
Sally Gilmour, ballerina (died 2004) • 3 November –
Sam Peffer, commercial artist (died 2014) • 4 November –
Hugh Cunningham, army officer (died 2019) • 6 November –
Eric Day, footballer (died 2012) • 7 November –
Vivienne Harris, businesswoman and newspaper publisher (died 2011) • 10 November –
Ernie Gregory, footballer (died 2012) • 11 November –
Ron Greenwood, footballer and manager (died 2006) • 16 November –
Paul Beeson, cinematographer (died 2001) • 17 November –
James Beament, scientist (died 2005) • 22 November –
Brian Cleeve, writer (died 2003) • 25 November –
Johnny Johnson, Royal Air Force officer (died 2022) • 26 November –
Mary Gillham, naturalist (died 2013) • 27 November –
James Kinnier Wilson, assyriologist (died 2022) • 3 December •
Arthur Clarke, sports shooter (died 2014) •
Geoffrey Kirk, classical scholar (died 2003) • 8 December •
Horace Barlow, neuroscientist (died 2020) •
Bill Elsey, racehorse trainer (died 2019) •
Terence Morgan, actor (died 2005) • 9 December –
Terence Weil, cellist (died 1995) • 11 December –
Liz Smith, character actress (died 2016) • 12 December –
John Papworth, clergyman, writer and activist (died 2020) • 14 December –
Simon Towneley, politician (died 2022) • 16 December –
Alan Thornhill, artist and sculptor (died 2020) • 18 December –
Jack Crompton, footballer (died 2013) • 19 December –
Wilf Proudfoot, politician, businessman and hypnotist (died 2013) • 21 December •
Peter Croker, footballer (died 2011) •
William Reid, RAF pilot (died 2001) • 22 December –
John Aiken, air marshal (died 2005) • 23 December –
Harry Moule, cricketer (died 2016) • 24 December –
Jimmy Clitheroe, comedian (died 1973) • 25 December –
Joseph Pease, 3rd Baron Gainford, aristocrat (died 2013) • 27 December •
Gordon Brunton, businessman (died 2017) •
Cyril Roger, speedway racer (died 2015) ==Deaths==