and one injured. 6 December – English Folk Dance Society formed by Cecil Sharp. 11 December – George V and Queen Mary are crowned as Emperor of India and Empress consort of India, respectively, at the Delhi Durbar in New Delhi. 16 December National Insurance Act 1911 passed. Shops Act 1911 allows a weekly half holiday for shop staff. Undated Camden Town Group of post-Impressionist artists established in London. Completion of Westminster Central Hall as a Wesleyan Methodist church. Publications Encyclopædia Britannica eleventh edition published under American management by Cambridge University Press. Concise Oxford English Dictionary first edition. Frances Hodgson Burnett's novel The Secret Garden. G. K. Chesterton's short story collection The Innocence of Father Brown. Joseph Conrad's novel Under Western Eyes. Woman's Weekly magazine launched. Births 2 January – Sunny Lowry, first woman to swim the English Channel (died 2008) 4 January – David Shoenberg, physicist (born in Russia; died 2004) 8 January – Tom Delaney, racing driver and businessman (died 2006) 10 January – Norman Heatley, biologist (died 2004) 22 January – Mary Hayley Bell, actress and dramatist, wife of Sir John Mills (died 2005) 24 January Evelyn Barbirolli, oboist, wife of Sir John Barbirolli (died 2008) Rita Lawrence, pianist (died 2001) 26 January – William Fox, actor (born in the Philippines; died 2008) 29 January – Bryan Coleman, actor (died 2005) 19 February – Merle Oberon, actress (died 1979) 1 March – Harry Golombek, chess grandmaster (died 1995) 14 March – James Hill, army brigadier (died 2006) 15 March – Ursula Vaughan Williams, author (died 2007) 16 March – Ewart Jones, Welsh chemist (died 2002) 27 March – Erich Heller, philosopher (died 1990) 3 April – Michael Woodruff, pioneering transplant surgeon (died 2001) 15 April – Leonard Redshaw, shipbuilder (died 1989) 19 April Frank Barlow, historian (died 2009) Ursula Moray Williams, children's author (died 2006) 23 April – Ronald Neame, film cinematographer, producer, screenwriter and director (died 2010) 25 April – George Chubb, 3rd Baron Hayter, industrialist and politician (died 2003) 2 May – Alan Nunn May, physicist and Soviet spy (died 2003) 7 May – David Leach, potter (died 2005) 11 May – Geoffrey Paulson Townsend, architect (died 2002) 12 May – Billy Munn, jazz pianist (died 2000) 18 May – Michael Berry, newspaper proprietor (died 2001) 28 May – Thora Hird, comic actress (died 2003) 29 May – James Marjoribanks, diplomat (died 2002) 30 May