– Ian Hogg, admiral (died 2003) 7 June – Stanley Unwin, actor and comedian (born in South Africa; died 2002) 10 June – Terence Rattigan, playwright (died 1977) 15 June – Wilbert Awdry, children's writer (died 1997) 7 July Jesse Carver, footballer (died 2003) Gretchen Franklin, actress (died 2005) 9 July – Mervyn Peake, writer and illustrator (died 1968) 14 July – Terry-Thomas, actor (died 1990) 15 July – Juliet Pannett, portrait painter (died 2005) 17 July – Ted Anderson, footballer (died 1979) 29 July – Leslie Scarman, judge (died 2004) 20 August – J. H. Plumb, historian (died 2001) 27 August – Kay Walsh, actress (died 2005) 29 August – John Charnley, orthopaedic surgeon (died 1982) 19 September – William Golding, novelist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1993) 30 September – Clare Deniz, jazz pianist (died 2002) 3 October – Michael Hordern, actor (died 1995) 4 October – Kenneth Cross, Air Force commander (died 2003) 10 October – Clare Hollingworth, journalist (died 2017) 30 October – Eileen Ash, cricketer and supercentenarian (died 2021) 7 November – Alethea Hayter, writer (died 2006) 12 November – Chad Varah, priest and humanitarian (died 2007) 17 November – Ernest Lough, singer (died 2000) 23 November – Peter Saunders, theatre impresario (died 2003) 7 December – J. Gwyn Griffiths, poet and Egyptologist (died 2004) 11 December – Val Guest, film director (died 2006) 21 December – Frederick Lawton, judge (died 2001) 22 December – Danny O'Dea, actor (died 2003) 27 December – Anna Russell, comedian and singer (died 2006) Deaths 7 January – Sir John Aird, 1st Baronet, civil engineer (born 1833) 17 January – Sir Francis Galton, explorer and biologist (born 1822) 23 January – Edmund Beswick, rugby player (born 1858) 8 February – Frederick Campbell, 3rd Earl Cawdor, politician (born 1847) 23 February – Richard Henry Beddome, military officer and naturalist (born 1830) 3 March – Jacob Thomas, Victoria Cross recipient (born 1833) 6 March – Mary Anne Barker, author (born 1831) 22 March – William Collins, Anglican bishop (born 1867) 5 April – Charles Frederic Moberly Bell, journalist and newspaper editor (born 1847) 21 May – Williamina Fleming, astronomer (born 1857) 23 May – John Douglas, architect (born 1830) 25 May – William Ridley, missionary bishop (born 1836) 29 May Benjamin Broomhall, advocate (born 1829) W. S. Gilbert, librettist, playwright and comic writer (born 1836) 7 June – William Gordon, Roman Catholic