fiction author (died 2006) 10 May – John James, racing driver (died 2002) 13 May – Phil Drabble, country author and television personality (died 2007) 19 May – Max Perutz, Austrian-born molecular biologist (died 2002) 22 May Howard Lawson, cricketer (died 2006) Edward Arthur Thompson, historian (died 1994) 25 May William Gardner, coin designer (died 2000) Toby Low, 1st Baron Aldington, politician (died 2000) 26 May – Geoffrey Unsworth, cinematographer (died 1978) 27 May – Frederick Erroll, 1st Baron Erroll of Hale, politician (died 2000) 28 May – W. G. G. Duncan Smith, World War II pilot (died 1996) 29 May W. S. Barrett, classical scholar (died 2001) Charles Mozley, artist (died 1991) 4 June Edward Evans, actor (died 2001) Alec Skempton, scientist (died 2001) 5 June – Rose Hill, actress and soprano (died 2003) 12 June – John Seymour, author and self-sufficiency campaigner (died 2004) 14 June Sir Peter Hayman, diplomat and paedophile (died 1992) Lena Kennedy, romantic novelist (died 1986) 15 June Louis Edwards, Manchester United Football Club chairman 1965–1980 (died 1980) Morgan Morgan-Giles, admiral and politician (died 2013) Terence Otway, World War II lieutenant-colonel (born in Egypt; died 2006) 20 June – Celia Fremlin, writer of detective fiction (died 2009) 24 June Bernard Braine, politician (died 2000) Pearl Witherington, World War II secret agent (died 2008) 25 June – Mavis Pugh, actress (died 2006) 26 June – Laurie Lee, poet and author (died 1997) 27 June – William Stobbs, illustrator (died 2000) 1 July – Thomas Pearson, Army officer (died 2019) 5 July – Ilija Monte Radlovic, Army officer and author (died 2000) 10 July – Charles Donnelly, poet (died 1937) 14 July – Hubert Gregg, English broadcaster, writer and actor (died 2004) 15 July Hammond Innes, adventure novelist (died 1998) Gavin Maxwell, Scottish naturalist and author (died 1969) 17 July – Paul Brand, doctor and surgeon (died 2003) 19 July – Hubert Gregg, actor and screenwriter (died 2004) 25 July – Winifred Foley, writer (died 2009) 29 July – Abram Games, graphic designer (died 1996) 1 August Cecil Allan, Irish footballer (died 2003) W. J. Burley, crime writer (died 2002) 5 August – Bert Millichip, football manager (died 2002) 7 August – Constance Stuart Larrabee, journalist and war correspondent (died 2000) 9 August – Joe Mercer, football manager (died 1990) 10 August – Ken Annakin, film director (died 2009) 19 August – Rose Heilbron, barrister (died