| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
|---|
| Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab |
Terrorist |
22-Dec-1986 |
|
Nigerian underwear bomber |
| Mulk Raj Anand |
Novelist |
22-Dec-1905 |
28-Sep-2004 |
Untouchable |
| Kofi Awoonor |
Poet |
13-Mar-1935 |
|
Rediscovery |
| Walter Bagehot |
Economist |
3-Feb-1826 |
24-Mar-1877 |
Editor of The Economist, 1860-77 |
| David Bates |
Astronomer |
18-Nov-1916 |
5-Jan-1994 |
Atmospheric and interstellar physics |
| William Bayliss |
Doctor |
2-May-1860 |
27-Aug-1924 |
Co-Discovered hormones |
| Guy Berryman |
Bassist |
12-Apr-1978 |
|
Bassist for Coldplay |
| Alec Boksenberg |
Astronomer |
18-Mar-1936 |
|
Image Photon Counting System |
| George E. P. Box |
Mathematician |
18-Oct-1919 |
28-Mar-2013 |
Statistician at University of Wisconsin |
| Christine Brooke-Rose |
Novelist |
16-Jan-1923 |
21-Mar-2012 |
Out |
| Geoffrey Burbidge |
Astronomer |
24-Sep-1925 |
26-Jan-2010 |
Quasi-steady state cosmology |
| Michael Burleigh |
Historian |
3-Apr-1955 |
|
The Third Reich: A New History |
| Jocelyn Bell Burnell |
Astronomer |
15-Jul-1943 |
|
Co-Discoverer of pulsars |
| Richard D'Oyly Carte |
Theatre Producer |
3-May-1844 |
3-Apr-1901 |
English opera and theatre impresario |
| G. K. Chesterton |
Author |
29-May-1874 |
14-Jun-1936 |
The Man Who Was Thursday |
| Lloyd Cole |
Singer/Songwriter |
31-Jan-1961 |
|
Lloyd Cole and the Commotions |
| Alex Comfort |
Doctor |
10-Feb-1920 |
26-Mar-2000 |
The Joy of Sex |
| George P. Cosmatos |
Film Director |
4-Jan-1941 |
19-Apr-2005 |
Tombstone |
| Bernard Crick |
Political Scientist |
16-Dec-1929 |
19-Dec-2008 |
In Defence of Politics |
| Stafford Cripps |
Politician |
24-Apr-1889 |
21-Apr-1952 |
Chancellor of the Exchequer, 1947-50 |
| John Curwen |
Musicologist |
14-Nov-1816 |
16-May-1880 |
Tonic Sol-fa Method |
| Henry Dale |
Scientist |
9-Jun-1875 |
23-Jul-1968 |
Acetylcholine as a neurotransmitter |
| Paul Davies |
Physicist |
22-Apr-1946 |
|
The Mind of God |
| R. R. Davies |
Historian |
6-Aug-1938 |
16-May-2005 |
Conquest, Coexistence and Change |
| John Derbyshire |
Author |
3-Jun-1945 |
|
Conservative pundit |
| John William Draper |
Chemist |
5-May-1811 |
4-Jan-1882 |
Radiant energy and portrait photography |
| G. R. Elton |
Historian |
17-Aug-1921 |
3-Dec-1994 |
The Tudor Revolution in Government |
| Alice Evans |
Actor |
2-Aug-1971 |
|
102 Dalmatians |
| Martin Evans |
Scientist |
1-Jan-1941 |
|
Embryonic stem cells |
| Hans Eysenck |
Psychologist |
4-Mar-1916 |
4-Sep-1997 |
Intelligence and personality |
| Sebastian Ziani de Ferranti |
Business |
9-Apr-1864 |
13-Jan-1930 |
England's electrical grid |
| John Ambrose Fleming |
Engineer |
29-Nov-1849 |
19-Apr-1945 |
Invented the vacuum tube |
| John Forster |
Author |
2-Apr-1812 |
2-Feb-1876 |
Life of Charles Dickens |
| Martin Fowler |
Computer Programmer |
? |
|
Manifesto For Agile Software Development |
| Justine Frischmann |
Guitarist |
16-Sep-1969 |
|
Guitarist, Elastica |
| John H. Gaddum |
Scientist |
31-Mar-1900 |
30-Jun-1965 |
Drug antagonism |
| Hugh Gaitskell |
Politician |
9-Apr-1906 |
18-Jan-1963 |
Leader of the Labour Party, 1955-63 |
| Mahatma Gandhi |
Activist |
2-Oct-1869 |
30-Jan-1948 |
Proselytizer of nonviolence |
| Herbert S. Gasser |
Scientist |
5-Jul-1888 |
11-May-1963 |
Nerve conduction |
| Ricky Gervais |
Actor |
25-Jun-1961 |
|
The Office |
| Otto Hahn |
Chemist |
8-Mar-1879 |
28-Jul-1968 |
Demonstrated fission |
| Chaim Herzog |
Head of State |
17-Sep-1918 |
17-Apr-1997 |
President of Israel, 1983-93 |
| Jaroslav Heyrovsky |
Chemist |
20-Dec-1890 |
27-Mar-1967 |
Polarography |
| Frederick Hopkins |
Scientist |
20-Jun-1861 |
16-May-1947 |
Discovered vitamins |
| T. E. Hulme |
Poet |
16-Sep-1883 |
28-Sep-1917 |
Modernist poet and critic |
| Leander Starr Jameson |
Head of State |
9-Feb-1853 |
26-Nov-1917 |
Last Prime Minister of Capetown |
| William Stanley Jevons |
Economist |
1-Sep-1835 |
13-Aug-1882 |
Theory of Political Economy |
| James Robertson Justice |
Actor |
15-Jun-1907 |
2-Jul-1975 |
Doctor in the House |
| Bernard Katz |
Scientist |
26-Mar-1911 |
20-Apr-2003 |
Neurotransmitters and the pineal gland |
| Jomo Kenyatta |
Head of State |
20-Oct-1892 |
22-Aug-1978 |
President of Kenya, 1964-78 |
| Junichiro Koizumi |
Head of State |
8-Jan-1942 |
|
Prime Minister of Japan, 2001-06 |
| Joseph Lister |
Doctor |
5-Apr-1827 |
10-Feb-1912 |
Pioneer of antiseptic surgery |
| David Lodge |
Novelist |
28-Jan-1935 |
|
How Far Can You Go? |
| Otto Loewi |
Scientist |
3-Jun-1873 |
25-Dec-1961 |
Acetylcholine as a neurotransmitter |
| Chris Martin |
Musician |
2-Mar-1977 |
|
Lead vocals, Coldplay |
| George du Maurier |
Artist |
6-Mar-1834 |
6-Oct-1896 |
British caricaturist, Punch |
| John Maynard Smith |
Biologist |
6-Jan-1920 |
19-Apr-2004 |
Applied game theory to evolutionary biology |
| John J. McCusker |
Historian |
12-Aug-1939 |
|
The Economy of British America, 1607-1789 |
| Richard Middleton |
Historian |
1-Apr-1941 |
|
The Bells of Victory |
| Ashley Montagu |
Anthropologist |
28-Jun-1905 |
26-Nov-1999 |
The Natural Superiority of Women |
| Alexander Muirhead |
Physicist |
26-May-1848 |
13-Dec-1920 |
Submarine cable telegraphy |
| Margaret Murray |
Archaeologist |
13-Jul-1863 |
13-Nov-1963 |
Egyptologist, mother of Wicca |
| Christopher Nolan |
Film Director |
30-Jul-1970 |
|
Memento |
| Raymond Pearl |
Biologist |
3-Jun-1879 |
17-Nov-1940 |
Biogerontology |
| Roger Penrose |
Mathematician |
8-Aug-1931 |
|
Theory of cosmic censorship |
| George H. Poste |
Biologist |
c. 1944 |
|
Health Technology Networks |
| Lucy Punch |
Actor |
30-Dec-1977 |
|
Bad Teacher |
| David E. I. Pyott |
Business |
c. 1953 |
|
CEO of Allergan |
| Dora Russell |
Activist |
3-Apr-1894 |
31-May-1986 |
Feminist, birth control and peace activist |
| Bert Sakmann |
Scientist |
12-Jun-1942 |
|
Cellular ion channels |
| Michael Seaton |
Astronomer |
16-Jun-1923 |
29-May-2007 |
Opacity Project |
| Alexander Siddig |
Actor |
21-Nov-1965 |
|
Dr. Julian Bashir on DS9 |
| Frederick Soddy |
Chemist |
2-Sep-1877 |
22-Sep-1956 |
Isotopes |
| David Storey |
Novelist |
13-Jul-1933 |
|
Saville |
| Victor W. Turner |
Anthropologist |
28-May-1920 |
1983 |
The Drums of Affliction |
| Vincent du Vigneaud |
Chemist |
18-May-1901 |
11-Dec-1978 |
Synthesized vasopressin and oxytocin |
| Mortimer Wheeler |
Archaeologist |
10-Sep-1890 |
22-Jul-1976 |
Archaeology from the Earth |
| Terry Winograd |
Scientist |
24-Feb-1946 |
|
Understanding Natural Language |
| Patrick Wymark |
Actor |
11-Jul-1920 |
20-Oct-1970 |
Where Eagles Dare |
| Frances Yates |
Historian |
28-Nov-1899 |
29-Sep-1981 |
The Art of Memory |
| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
|---|
| A. J. Ayer |
Philosopher |
29-Oct-1910 |
27-Jun-1989 |
Language, Truth and Logic |
| David Bates |
Astronomer |
18-Nov-1916 |
5-Jan-1994 |
Atmospheric and interstellar physics |
| William Bayliss |
Doctor |
2-May-1860 |
27-Aug-1924 |
Co-Discovered hormones |
| Alexander Graham Bell |
Inventor |
3-Mar-1847 |
2-Aug-1922 |
Inventor of the telephone |
| James W. Black |
Scientist |
14-Jun-1924 |
22-Mar-2010 |
Propranolol and cimetidine |
| Alec Boksenberg |
Astronomer |
18-Mar-1936 |
|
Image Photon Counting System |
| Rachel Bowlby |
Educator |
29-Jan-1957 |
|
Carried Away |
| William Bragg |
Physicist |
2-Jul-1862 |
12-Mar-1942 |
Analyzed crystal structures |
| Ernst B. Chain |
Scientist |
19-Jun-1906 |
12-Aug-1979 |
Isolated penicillin |
| Sydney Chapman |
Mathematician |
29-Jan-1888 |
16-Jun-1970 |
Geomagnetism |
| A. J. Clark |
Scientist |
19-Aug-1885 |
30-Jul-1941 |
Drug responses |
| Paul Davies |
Physicist |
22-Apr-1946 |
|
The Mind of God |
| Augustus De Morgan |
Mathematician |
27-Jun-1806 |
18-Mar-1871 |
De Morgan's Laws |
| Ronald Dworkin |
Philosopher |
11-Dec-1931 |
14-Feb-2013 |
Taking Rights Seriously |
| Ulf von Euler |
Scientist |
7-Feb-1905 |
9-Mar-1983 |
Neurotransmitters, norepinephrine and prostaglandins |
| Martin Evans |
Scientist |
1-Jan-1941 |
|
Embryonic stem cells |
| Ronald Fisher |
Mathematician |
17-Feb-1890 |
29-Jul-1962 |
Analysis of variance and covariance |
| John Ambrose Fleming |
Engineer |
29-Nov-1849 |
19-Apr-1945 |
Invented the vacuum tube |
| John H. Gaddum |
Scientist |
31-Mar-1900 |
30-Jun-1965 |
Drug antagonism |
| Mark Girouard |
Historian |
10-Jul-1931 |
|
Architectural historian |
| Lawrence Gowing |
Art Historian |
21-Apr-1918 |
5-Feb-1991 |
Biographer of Vermeer |
| J. B. S. Haldane |
Biologist |
5-Nov-1892 |
1-Dec-1964 |
Haldane's principle |
| Archibald V. Hill |
Scientist |
26-Sep-1886 |
3-Jun-1977 |
Studied muscles and nerves |
| Andrew F. Huxley |
Scientist |
22-Nov-1917 |
30-May-2012 |
Electrical impulses in nerves |
| Lisa Jardine |
Historian |
12-Apr-1944 |
25-Oct-2015 |
Francis Bacon: Discovery and the Art of Discourse |
| William Stanley Jevons |
Economist |
1-Sep-1835 |
13-Aug-1882 |
Theory of Political Economy |
| Stephen Jones |
Biologist |
24-Mar-1944 |
|
Geneticist and pop science writer |
| Bernard Katz |
Scientist |
26-Mar-1911 |
20-Apr-2003 |
Neurotransmitters and the pineal gland |
| Frank Kermode |
Critic |
29-Nov-1919 |
17-Aug-2010 |
The Sense of an Ending |
| Harrie Massey |
Astronomer |
16-May-1908 |
27-Nov-1983 |
British National Committee for Space Research |
| John Maynard Smith |
Biologist |
6-Jan-1920 |
19-Apr-2004 |
Applied game theory to evolutionary biology |
| William McDougall |
Psychologist |
22-Jun-1871 |
28-Nov-1938 |
An Introduction to Social Psychology |
| Peter Medawar |
Biologist |
28-Feb-1915 |
2-Oct-1987 |
Acquired immunological tolerance |
| Fergus Millar |
Historian |
5-Jul-1935 |
|
Rome the Greek World, and the East |
| Margaret Murray |
Archaeologist |
13-Jul-1863 |
13-Nov-1963 |
Egyptologist, mother of Wicca |
| Charles Thomas Newton |
Archaeologist |
16-Sep-1816 |
28-Nov-1894 |
Discovered Halicarnassus mausoleum |
| Sir Anthony Panizzi |
Curator |
16-Sep-1797 |
8-Apr-1879 |
Librarian of the British Museum |
| James Plaskitt |
Politician |
23-Jun-1954 |
|
British MP, Warwick and Leamington |
| Sir William Ramsay |
Chemist |
2-Oct-1852 |
23-Jul-1916 |
Discovered noble gases |
| Conrad Russell |
Historian |
15-Apr-1937 |
14-Oct-2004 |
Fall of the British monarchies, 1637-1642 |
| Philippe Sands |
Scholar |
17-Oct-1960 |
|
Lawless World |
| Michael Seaton |
Astronomer |
16-Jun-1923 |
29-May-2007 |
Opacity Project |
| Stephen Spender |
Poet |
28-Feb-1909 |
16-Jul-1995 |
The Destructive Element |
| James Joseph Sylvester |
Mathematician |
3-Sep-1814 |
15-Mar-1897 |
Studied finite analysis |
| Mortimer Wheeler |
Archaeologist |
10-Sep-1890 |
22-Jul-1976 |
Archaeology from the Earth |
| Bernard Williams |
Philosopher |
21-Sep-1929 |
10-Jun-2003 |
Leading moral philosopher |
| John Zachary Young |
Zoologist |
18-Mar-1907 |
4-Jul-1997 |
British zoological neurologist |
