2004) 27 January Tom Addington, soldier (died 2011) David Clark, cricketer (died 2013) 29 January – N. F. Simpson, playwright (died 2011) 4 February Peter Butterworth, actor and comedian (died 1979) John Miller, World War II lieutenant-colonel and equerry (died 2006) 6 February – Sidney De Haan, businessman (died 2002) 16 February – Irene Brown, author and codebreaker (died 2017) 19 February – Samuel Falle, diplomat (died 2014) 20 February – James O'Meara, Battle of Britain Spitfire flying ace (died 1974) 23 February – Derek Ezra, chairman of the National Coal Board (died 2015) 24 February Henry Kitchener, 3rd Earl Kitchener, nobleman (died 2011) Betty Marsden, comedy actress (died 1998) 28 February – Brian Urquhart, war veteran and diplomat (died 2021) 1 March – Jock Hamilton-Baillie, World War II soldier and escapee (died 2003) 3 March – Mary Cosh, journalist, historian and author (died 2019) 11 March – Hans Keller, Austrian-born musician and writer (died 1985) 12 March – Donald Zec, journalist (died 2021) 16 March – Julian Pitt-Rivers, social anthropologist and ethnographer (died 2001) 17 March – Mad Mike Hoare, mercenary leader (died 2020) 18 March – G. E. M. Anscombe, analytic philosopher (died 2001) 20 March – Peter Conder, ornithologist and conservationist (died 1993) 21 March – R. M. Hare, moral philosopher (died 2002) 26 March – Joe Egan, rugby player (died 2012) 28 March – Tony Bartley, television executive (died 2001) 29 March – William S. Anderson, Chinese-born businessman, president and chairman of NCR Corporation (died 2021) 30 March – Henry Danton, dance teacher (died 2022) 3 April Victor Cannings, cricketer (died 2016) Hugh FitzRoy, 11th Duke of Grafton, nobleman (died 2011) 4 April – Frederick E. Smith, author (died 2012) 5 April Nigel Malim, World War II rear admiral (died 2006) Charles Parker, radio documentary producer (died 1980) 9 April Nicholas Goodhart, rear-admiral and aviator (died 2011) Iain Moncreiffe of that Ilk, Officer of Arms and genealogist (died 1985) 11 April Raymond Carr, historian (died 2015) William Clark, Royal air force officer (died 2020) John Nunn, Royal Air Force officer and politician (died 2013) Don Smoothey, actor and comedian (died 2015) 12 April – Ion Calvocoressi, Army officer and stockbroker (died 2007) 14 April – Leslie Lloyd Rees, Anglican prelate (died 2013) 15 April Emyr Humphreys, Welsh novelist, poet and author (died 2020) Sonia Rolt, canal conservationist (died 2014) 19 April – Nancie Colling, lawns bowls