United Kingdom 3 February – Roy 'Chubby' Brown, stand-up comedian 5 February – Charlotte Rampling, English actress 7 February – Gerald Davies, Welsh rugby player 13 February Keith Nichols, jazz musician and manager (died 2021) Simon Schama, historian 15 February – John Helliwell, English saxophonist and keyboard player 16 February – Jeremy Bulloch, actor (died 2020) 20 February – Alan Hull, English folk rock singer-songwriter (died 1995) 25 February – Elkie Brooks, English singer 26 February – Michael Marmot, English epidemiologist 22 March – Peter Williams, English physicist and academic 30 March – Eric Clapton, English rock guitarist 2 April – Roger Bootle-Wilbraham, 7th Baron Skelmersdale, politician (died 2018) 6 April – Rodney Bickerstaffe, English trade union leader (died 2017) 7 April – Gerry Cottle, English circus owner (died 2021) 14 April – Ritchie Blackmore, English rock guitarist (Deep Purple) 20 April – Alistair Cooke, Baron Lexden, historian and author 21 April Ian Bruce, author and academic Diana Darvey, actress, singer and dancer (died 2000) 29 April – Hugh Hopper, English rock guitarist (died 2009) 6 May – Hilary Dwyer, actress, businessperson and film producer (died 2020) 9 May Peter J. Hammond, academic economist Nicholas Wilson, Lord Wilson of Culworth, lawyer and judge 12 May Alan Ball Jr., England footballer (died 2007) Nicky Henson, actor (died 2019) 14 May – George Nicholls, English rugby league footballer 16 May – Nicky Chinn, English songwriter (Sweet and Suzi Quatro) 19 May Diana Maddock, Baroness Maddock, politician (died 2020) Pete Townshend, English rock guitarist and singer-songwriter (The Who) 29 May – Gary Brooker, English rock keyboardist and singer-songwriter (Procol Harum) (died 2022) 1 June – Ray Harford, footballer and manager (died 2003) 2 June – Lord David Dundas, musician and actor 3 June Brian Barnes, golfer (died 2019) John Derbyshire, English-American journalist and author Roger Lane-Nott, admiral 8 June Len Badger, footballer (died 2021) Anthony Bagnall, air chief marshal 12 June – Pat Jennings, Northern Irish football goalkeeper 14 June – Rod Argent, singer and keyboardist 15 June – Nicola Pagett, actress (died 2021) 17 June – Ken Livingstone, politician 19 June – John Hind, English bishop and theologian 28 June – David Knights, English rock guitarist (Procol Harum) 3 July – Iain MacDonald-Smith, English racing yachtsman 4 July – David McWilliams, Northern Irish singer-songwriter (died 2002) 7 July – Michael Ancram, Conservative politician and MP for Devizes 10 July John Motson, football