Jane Seymour, actress 20 February – Gordon Brown, Prime Minister 26 February – Steve Bell, cartoonist 27 February – Steve Harley, glam rock musician (Cockney Rebel) 4 March Kenny Dalglish, footballer and manager Chris Rea, singer and musician 1 April – Kay Davies, geneticist, anatomist and academic 13 April – Peter Davison, actor 14 April Julian Lloyd Webber, cellist and composer Greg Winter, biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 16 April – David Nutt, psychiatrist and academic 20 April – Louise Jameson, actress 25 April – Ian McCartney, politician 11 May Kay Mellor, television scriptwriter (died 2022) Mike Slemen, English rugby player and educator (died 2020) 13 May Selina Scott, journalist and television presenter James Whale, radio presenter 27 May – John Conteh, light heavyweight boxer 1 June – Lola Young, Baroness Young of Hornsey, actress and author 7 June – Ralph Palmer, 12th Baron Lucas, accountant and politician 8 June – Bonnie Tyler, singer 11 June – Matthew Engel, journalist and author 14 June – Paul Boateng, politician 15 June – John Redwood, politician 28 June – Lalla Ward, actress 1 July – Joanna Korner, judge 24 July – Chris Smith, politician 28 July Ray Kennedy, footballer (died 2021) Barbara Stocking, civil servant and academic 2 August – Gerald Suster, revisionist historian and novelist (died 2001) 15 August – Dave Needham, boxer (died 2008) 17 August Alan Minter, middleweight boxer (died 2020) Jonathan Ruffer, investor and philanthropist 19 August – John Deacon, rock bassist (Queen) 21 August – Glenn Hughes, rock musician 28 August – Colin White, military historian (died 2008) 1 September – David Bairstow, English cricketer (died 1998) 14 September – Duncan Haldane, English-born condensed-matter physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics 15 September – Gavin Muir, actor (died 2002) 22 September – David Coverdale, singer 26 September – Stuart Tosh, musician 27 September Paul Craig, professor of law Steve Soper, racing driver 30 September – John Lloyd, comedy producer 2 October – Sting, rock musician 3 October – Clive Charles, footballer (died 2003) 6 November – Nigel Havers, English actor 15 November – Alamgir Hashmi, poet 19 November – Lord Falconer of Thoroton, politician 23 November – David Rappaport, English actor (died 1990) 8 December – Bill Bryson, American-born British non-fiction author 10 December – Doug Allder, footballer 20 December Denise Deegan, author and playwright Lynne Featherstone, blogger and politician Christopher Le Brun,