October – Irene Astor, Baroness Astor of Hever, philanthropist (died 2001) 8 October – Peter Ramsbotham, diplomat (died 2010) 14 October – Shaun Sutton, television executive (died 2004) 15 October Howard Colvin, architectural historian (died 2007) Edwin Charles Tubb, science fiction writer (died 2010) 18 October – George E. P. Box, statistician (died 2013) 19 October – David Pritchard, chess player (died 2005) 20 October – Maurice Michael Stephens, World War II fighter pilot (died 2004) 21 October – Maurice Hodgson, business executive (died 2014) 22 October Kathleen Ankers, English-American actress and set designer (d. 2001) Doris Lessing, Persian-born novelist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature (died 2013) 23 October John Hunt, civil servant (died 2008) Sid Ottewell, footballer (died 2012) 25 October – Peter Howell, actor (died 2015) 28 October – Grahame Vivian, army officer (died 2015) 31 October George Boscawen, 9th Viscount Falmouth, politician Daphne Oxenford, broadcast actress (died 2012) 3 November Ludovic Kennedy, journalist, broadcaster and writer (died 2009) Peter Morgan, motor-car manufacturer (died 2003) 4 November Wilfred Fienburgh, politician (died 1958) Eric Thompson, racing driver (died 2015) 10 November – Cliff Ashby, poet and novelist (died 2012) 11 November – Hamish Henderson, Scottish poet (died 2002) 15 November – Nova Pilbeam, actress (died 2015) 16 November – Geoffrey Lilley, aeronautical scientist (died 2015) 17 November – Colin Hayes, artist (died 2003) 18 November – Norman Cornish, artist (died 2014) 19 November – Alan Young, English-born character actor (died 2016 in the United States) 20 November – Lucilla Andrews, Egyptian-born romantic novelist (died 2006) 21 November – Martin Aitchison, illustrator (died 2016) 23 November – P. F. Strawson, philosopher (died 2006) 24 November David Kossoff, actor (died 2005) David Peter Lafayette Hunter, Royal Marines officer (died 2001) 26 November – Harry Catterick, footballer and manager (died 1985) 1 December – John Freeborn, World II air ace (died 2010) 3 December – Charles Chester, rugby player (died 2011) 5 December – Alun Gwynne Jones, Baron Chalfont, politician and historian (died 2020) 6 December Eric Newby, travel writer (died 2006) Leonard E. H. Williams, pilot and businessman (died 2007) 7 December Frederick Atkinson, civil servant (died 2018) Lyndon Wainwright, metrologist, ballroom dancer and author (died 2018) 8 December – Ian Sneddon, mathematician (died 2000) 11 December – Cliff Michelmore, broadcast presenter (died 2016) 12 December – Cliff Holden, painter and designer (died 2020) 14 December – M. R.