Morals of Marcus Ordeyne. H. E. Marshall's Our Island Story: A Child's History of England. Baroness Orczy's historical novel The Scarlet Pimpernel. H. A. Vachell's school story The Hill. H. G. Wells' novel Kipps. Births 2 January – Michael Tippett, composer (died 1998) 6 January – Idris Davies, Anglo-Welsh poet (died 1953) 14 January – Jane Welsh, actress (died 2001) 1 February – Joan Morgan, actress (died 2004) 4 February – Hylda Baker, actress (died 1986) 10 February – Rachel Thomas, actress (died 1995) 16 February – Oliver Franks, public figure (died 1992) 18 February – Queenie Leonard, actress (died 2002) 26 February Robert Byron, travel writer (died 1941) Arthur Brough, actor (died 1978) Kathleen Guthrie, artist (died 1981) 18 March – Robert Donat, actor (died 1958) 28 March – Audrey Withers, magazine editor (died 2001) 30 March – Albert Pierrepoint, hangman (died 1992) 3 May – Sebastian Shaw, actor (died 1994) 16 May – H. E. Bates, novelist (died 1974) 12 July – Prince John (died 1919) 17 July – Marjorie Reeves, historian and educationalist (died 2003) 25 July – Denys Watkins-Pitchford, writer (died 1990) 15 August – Jean Rankin, courtier (died 2001) 23 August – Constant Lambert, composer (died 1951) 4 September – Mary Renault, novelist (died 1983) 22 September – Muriel Box, film director and screenwriter (died 1991) 29 September – Marie Hartley, writer (died 2006) 4 October – Leslie Mitchell, announcer (died 1985) 15 October – C. P. Snow, novelist and physicist (died 1980) 29 October Henry Green, novelist (died 1973) Berthold Wolpe, calligrapher, typographer and illustrator (died 1989) 31 October – Elizabeth Jenkins, novelist (died 2010) 4 November – Frank Owen, journalist and politician (died 1979) 25 November – Patrick Devlin, judge (died 1992) 26 November – Emlyn Williams, dramatist and actor (died 1987) 4 December – Guy Mountfort, advertising executive and ornithologist (died 2003) 5 December – Frank Pakenham, 7th Earl of Longford, peer, politician and reformer (died 2001) 21 December – Anthony Powell, novelist (died 2000) 22 December – Hugh Edward Richardson, diplomat and Tibetologist (died 2000) 25 December – Lewis Allen, film and television director (died 2000) 31 December – Jule Styne, songwriter (died 1994 in the United States) Deaths 9 April – Frederic Thesiger, 2nd Baron Chelmsford, British general (born 1827) 5 May – Edwin Bibby, wrestler (born 1848) 3 June – Hudson Taylor, British missionary (born 1832) 25 July –