2005) 20 August Levi Fox, archivist and historian (died 2006) Ray Holmes, World War II pilot (died 2005) Colin MacInnes, novelist (died 1976) 22 August – Trevor Leggett, author and translator (died 2000) 30 August – Sydney Wooderson, lawyer and athlete (died 2006) 31 August – Edward “Tap” Gordon Jones, Air Marshal (died 2007) 2 September – George Brown, politician (died 1985) 5 September – Stuart Freeborn, make-up artist (died 2013) 8 September – Denys Lasdun, architect (died 2001) 11 September – Sidney Hart, trade unionist and religious administrator (died 2005) 12 September – Desmond Llewelyn, actor (died 1999) 18 September – Jack Cardiff, cinematographer, director and photographer (died 2009) 19 September – Fraser McLuskey, Church of Scotland minister (died 2005) 20 September – Kenneth More, actor (died 1982) 23 September – Bethsabée de Rothschild, philanthropist and patron of dance (died 1999) 25 September – John Manners, cricketer and naval officer (died 2020) 29 September – Arnold W. G. Kean, civil aviation lawyer (died 2000) 1 October Dan Eley, chemist (died 2015) Stuart Hampshire, philosopher (died 2004) 6 October – Joan Littlewood, theatre director (died 2002) 27 October – Dylan Thomas, Welsh poet and author (died 1953) 28 October – Richard Laurence Millington Synge, chemist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (died 1994) 6 November Dorothy Edwards, children's author (died 1982) Leonard Miall, British broadcaster and television personality (died 2005) 7 November – John Welsh, Irish-born actor (died 1985) 8 November – John Nevill, 5th Marquess of Abergavenny, peer (died 2000) 9 November – Alan Caillou, author (died 2006) 12 November – Peter Whitehead, racing driver (died 1958) 13 November – Leonard Appelbee, artist (died 2000) 21 November – Michael Grant, ancient historian (died 2004) 23 November – Roger Avon, actor (died 1998) 24 November – Lynn Chadwick, sculptor (died 2003) 28 November – David Croom-Johnson, judge (died 2000) 29 November – Coleridge Goode, Jamaican-born British jazz bassist (died 2015) 30 November – Charles Hawtrey, comedy actor (died 1988) 3 December – Trevor Foster, rugby union player (died 2005) 12 December Patrick O'Brian, novelist (died 2000) Frank Roper, sculptor (died 2000) 13 December – Alan Bullock, historian (died 2004) 16 December – Norman Blamey, painter (died 2000) 24 December – D. B. H. Wildish, admiral (died 2017) 25 December Barbara Fawkes, nurse (died 2002) Philip John Gardner, soldier and Victoria Cross recipient (died 2003) 28 December – Bernard Youens,