Gibson, racing driver (died 2010) Spike Milligan, comedian, writer, musician, poet and playwright (born in the British Raj; died 2002) 18 April Avril Angers, actress (died 2005) Neville Bosworth, politician (died 2012) 23 April – James Kirkup, poet, translator and travel writer (died 2009) 29 April – Fraser Noble, Scottish academic (died 2003) 1 May – James Copeland, actor (died 2002) 2 May – John Barraclough, air marshal (died 2008) 3 May – Ted Bates, footballer and manager (died 2003) 5 May Margaret Harrison, Scottish peace campaigner (died 2015) Theodore Schurch, soldier (died 1946) 9 May – Hugh Jackson, paediatrician and child safety campaigner (died 2013) 10 May – John Martin, Royal Navy officer (died 2011) 13 May – Frank Anscombe, statistician (died 2001) 15 May James Baddiley, biochemist (died 2008) Arthur Rook, dermatologist (died 1991) 16 May – Wilf Mannion, footballer (died 2000) 17 May – Anthony Bishop, prelate (died 1988) 20 May Jeremy Hawk, actor (died 2002) David Ormsby-Gore, 5th Baron Harlech, diplomat and politician (died 1985) 21 May – Ralph Russell, scholar (died 2008) 23 May – Denis Compton, footballer and cricketer (died 1997) 24 May – Jack Edwards, World War II soldier (died 2006) 26 May – Thomas Johnstone McWiggan, aviation engineer (died 2016) 29 May – David Rees, mathematician (died 2013) 31 May – Sadie Corré, actress and tap dancer (died 2009) 1 June – Katherine Grant, 12th Countess of Dysart, Scottish noblewoman (died 2011) 6 June Kenneth Connor, actor (died 1993) Susan Williams-Ellis, pottery designer (died 2007) 11 June – Lady Edith Foxwell, eccentric (died 1996) 12 June – Harold Walker, cricketer (died 2000) 14 June – Edna Healey, writer, lecturer and filmmaker (died 2010) 16 June – Geoffrey Beck, cricketer (died 2019) 17 June – Derek Barber, Baron Barber of Tewkesbury, life peer and politician (died 2017) 20 June – Archie Boyd, Royal Air Force officer (died 2014) 22 June – Cicely Saunders, nurse, physician and writer (died 2005) 23 June – Paul Ashbee, archaeologist (died 2009) 25 June P. H. Newby, novelist (died 1997) Cynthia Postan, debutante, secretary for M15, translator and horticulturalist (died 2017 27 June – Douglas John Foskett, librarian (died 2004) 28 June – William Whitelaw, 1st Viscount Whitelaw, nobleman and politician (died 1999) 4 July Alec Bedser, cricketer (died 2010) Tony Garrett, executive (died 2017) Michael Stoker, physician (died 2013) Edward Craven Walker, inventor (died 2000) 5 July