Charrott Lodwidge, writer (died 2012) 21 July Pentland Hick, entrepreneur, author and publisher (died 2016) Lady Rose McLaren, aristocrat (died 2005) 26 July James Lovelock, scientist, proponent of the Gaia hypothesis (died 2022) Kenneth Snowman, jeweller (died 2002) 27 July Raymond Cohen, violinist (died 2011) Jack Goody, social anthropologist (died 2015) 29 July – Patricia H. Clarke, biochemist (died 2010) 31 July – Frank Giles, journalist and historian (died 2019) 1 August – Stanley Middleton, novelist (died 2009) 3 August David Aubrey Scott, diplomat (died 2010) Dare Wilson, army general (died 2014) 8 August – John David Wilson, artist and animator (died 2013) 13 August – George Shearing, musician (died 2011) 14 August – Richard Keynes, physiologist (died 2010) 15 August – Bernard Barrell, composer (died 2005) 16 August – Reginald James Wallace, civil servant and governor (died 2012) 18 August – Patrick Shovelton, civil servant (died 2012) 22 August – Michael Langham, actor and director (died 2011) 27 August Jack Dormand, politician (died 2003) Bruce Kinloch, Army officer and author (died 2011) 28 August – Godfrey Hounsfield, electrical engineer and inventor, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (died 2004) 29 August – Helen Shingler, actress (died 2019) 2 September – Lance Macklin, racing driver (died 2002) 4 September – Teddy Johnson, popular singer (died 2018) 6 September – Philip Woodward, mathematician and radar engineer (died 2018) 7 September – Neil Shields, politician and businessman (died 2002) 8 September – Alistair Urquhart, Scottish businessman and author (died 2016) 11 September Bernard Feilden, conservation architect (died 2008) Tony Iveson, Royal Air Force pilot and World War II veteran (died 2013) 13 September Mary Midgley, moral philosopher (died 2018) James Stuart-Smith, judge (died 2013) George Weidenfeld, Baron Weidenfeld, publisher, philanthropist and politician (died 2016) 14 September – Olga Lowe, actress (died 2013) 15 September – Alfie Scopp, English-born Canadian actor (died 2021) 21 September – Nigel Stock, actor (died 1986) 27 September Peter Coe, athletics coach (died 2008) James H. Wilkinson, mathematician (died 1986) 2 October John W. Duarte, composer and guitarist (died 2004) Walter Luttrell, colonel and public servant (born in Australia; died 2007) 4 October – John Sawyer, romance novelist in collaboration with his wife Nancy Buckingham (died 1994) 5 October Robert Kee, writer, journalist and broadcaster (died 2013) Donald Pleasence, actor (died 1995) 6 October Tommy Lawton, footballer (died 1996) Molly Lefebure, writer (died 2013) 7