D. Foot, military historian (died 2012) 18 December – Ken Reid, comic artist and writer (died 1987) 19 December – Albert Richards, war artist (died 1945) 23 December – Peggy Fortnum, illustrator (died 2016) 25 December Noele Gordon, actress (died 1985) Sid Storey, footballer (died 2010) 30 December – David Willcocks, choirmaster (died 2015) 31 December – Morris Sugden, physical chemist (died 1984) Deaths 2 January – Arthur Gould, Wales international rugby captain (born 1864) 3 January – James Hills-Johnes, Indian-born Welsh Victoria Cross recipient (born 1833) 12 January – Sir Charles Wyndham, actor-manager (born 1837) 18 January – Prince John of the United Kingdom (born 1905) 24 February – Edward Bishop, Wales international rugby player (born 1864) 26 February – Anne Isabella Thackeray Ritchie, novelist and essayist (born 1837) 27 February – Robert Harris, Welsh-born painter (born 1849) 20 March – Pauline Markham, English-born vaudeville actress (born 1847) 4 April – Sir William Crookes, chemist and physicist (born 1832) 12 June – Jeremiah Williams, Coalition Liberal Member of Parliament (MP) for Swansea East (born 1872) 14 June – Weedon Grossmith, humorous writer, actor and artist (born 1854) 30 June – John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1842) 1 July – Sir John Brunner, British industrialist and politician (b. 1842) 13 July – Theo Harding, Wales international rugby player (born 1860) 26 July Sir Edward Poynter, painter (born 1836) Richard Hughes Williams (Dic Tryfan), Welsh-language writer (born 1878) 31 July – Dick Barlow, cricketer (born 1851) 11 August – Andrew Carnegie, Scottish-American philanthropist (born 1835) 21 August – Laurence Doherty, tennis champion (born 1875) 23 August – Augustus George Vernon Harcourt, chemist (born 1834) 15 October Howard Colvin, architectural historian (died 2007) Arthur Owen Vaughan (Owen Rhoscomyl), English-born Welsh writer (born 1863) 17 October – James Wolfe Murray, British Army general (born 1853) 18 October – William Waldorf Astor, 1st Viscount Astor, American-born financier and statesman (born 1848) 23 October – Charles Judd, missionary to China (born 1842) 25 October – Ernest Albert Waterlow, painter (born 1850) 2 December – Sir Evelyn Wood, field marshal and Victoria Cross recipient (born 1838) 18 December – Sir John Alcock, aviator, pilot of first nonstop transatlantic flight by aeroplane, June 1919, in aviation accident (born 1892) 22 December – Boy Capel, industrialist, polo player, writer, and lover/muse of Coco Chanel (b. 1881) See also List of British films