of Dorian Gray (book version) and Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories. Henry James' short story The Pupil published in Longman's Magazine. Strand Magazine (January). Births 9 February – Ronald Colman, English actor (died 1958) 11 February – J. W. Hearne, English cricketer (died 1965) 23 February – Robert Barrington-Ward, English newspaper editor (died 1948) 2 April – Jack Buchanan, Scottish actor and film director (died 1957) 22 April – Harold Jeffreys, English mathematician (died 1989) 25 April – Ivor Brown, journalist and author (died 1974) 7 May – Harry McShane, Scottish socialist (died 1988) 20 June – John A. Costello, third Taoiseach of Ireland, second to use that title (died 1976) 30 June – Stanley Spencer, painter (died 1959) 2 August – Arthur Bliss, composer (died 1975) 6 August – William Slim, Field Marshal (died 1970) 30 August – Henry Tandey, second most highly decorated British private soldier of World War I (died 1977) 8 October – Ellen Wilkinson, English socialist (died 1947) 20 October – James Chadwick, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1974) 17 November – William Coltman, most highly decorated British private soldier of World War I (died 1974) 13 December – Hubert Phillips, economist, journalist, bridge player and composer of puzzles (died 1964) Deaths 4 January – Charles Keene, illustrator (born 1823) 6 January – Hugh Owen Thomas, orthopaedic surgeon (born 1834) 30 January – Charles Bradlaugh, political activist, founder and first president of the National Secular Society and Member of Parliament for Northampton (born 1833) 15 March – Sir Joseph Bazalgette, sanitary engineer (born 1819) 7 April – J. D. Sedding, ecclesiastical architect (born 1838) 13 April – Edward Austin, cricketer (born 1847) 29 May – William Synge, diplomat and author (born 1826) 2 June – Joseph Thornton, Oxford-based bookseller (born 1808) 7 June – William Bosomworth, cricketer (born 1847) 6 October Charles Stewart Parnell, Irish nationalist leader (born 1846) William Henry Smith, politician and founder of W H Smith (born 1825) 15 October – Gilbert Arthur à Beckett, humorous writer (born 1837) 21 December – William Cavendish, 7th Duke of Devonshire, politician (born 1808) References Years of the 19th century in the United Kingdom