of India (assassinated 1979 in Ireland) 26 June – John Benham, 400m runner (died 1990) 30 June – James Stagg, Scottish-born meteorologist (died 1975) 2 July Tyrone Guthrie, theatre director (died 1971 in Ireland) Sophie Harris, theatre and opera costume and scenic designer (died 1966) 10 July – Evelyn Laye, actress (died [1996) 4 August – Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, queen consort of George VI and later Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother (died 2002) 17 August – Vivienne de Watteville, adventurer (died 1957) 19 August – Gilbert Ryle, philosopher (died 1976) 23 August – Bella Reay, footballer (died 1979) 27 August – Frank Moody, Welsh boxer (died 1963) 25 August – Isobel Hogg Kerr Beattie, Scottish architect (died 1970) 4 September – Maxwell Knight, spymaster and naturalist (died 1968) 8 September – Tilly Devine, organised crime boss (died 1970 in Australia) 9 September – James Hilton, novelist and screenwriter (died 1954 in the United States) 11 September – Jimmy Brain, footballer (died 1971) 12 September – Eric Thiman, composer (died 1975) 1 October – Tom Goddard, cricketer (died 1966) 2 October – Isabella Forshall, paediatric surgeon (died 1989) 6 October – Stan Nichols, cricketer (died 1961) 8 October – Geoffrey Jellicoe, landscape architect (died 1996) 9 October – Alastair Sim, character actor (died 1976) 14 October – Roland Penrose, Surrealist painter and art collector (died 1984) 16 October – Edward Ardizzone, painter, printmaker and author (born in Vietnam; died 1979) 5 November – Ethelwynn Trewavas, ichthyologist (died 1993) 18 November – Mercedes Gleitze, distance swimmer (died 1981) 20 November – Helen Bradley, painter (died 1979) 22 November – Tom Macdonald, Welsh journalist and novelist (died 1980) 4 December – John Axon, railwayman hero (killed in accident 1957) 16 December – V. S. Pritchett, short story writer (died 1997) 17 December – Mary Cartwright, mathematician (died 1998) 22 December – Alan Bush, pianist, composer and conductor (died 1995) 26 December – Evelyn Bark, humanitarian, leading member of the Red Cross, first female recipient of the CMG (died 1993) Robina Addis, pioneering professional psychiatric social worker (died 1986) Saira Elizabeth Luiza Shah, born Elizabeth Louise MacKenzie, Scottish writer as Morag Murray Abdullah (died 1960) Deaths 20 January R. D. Blackmore, novelist (born 1825) John Ruskin, writer and social critic (born 1819) 22 January – David Edward Hughes, musician and professor of music (born 1831) 31 January – John Sholto Douglas, 9th Marquess of Queensberry,