Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
Edward P. Abraham |
Chemist |
10-Jun-1913 |
8-May-1999 |
Cephalosporins |
Joss Ackland |
Actor |
29-Feb-1928 |
|
White Mischief |
Peter Ackroyd |
Author |
5-Oct-1949 |
|
The Great Fire of London |
Roger Adams |
Chemist |
2-Jan-1889 |
6-Jul-1971 |
Organic chemist at Illinois |
Christiane Amanpour |
Journalist |
12-Jan-1958 |
|
Host of ABC's This Week |
Malcolm Arnold |
Composer |
21-Oct-1921 |
23-Sep-2006 |
The Bridge on the River Kwai |
Ove Arup |
Engineer |
16-Apr-1895 |
5-Feb-1988 |
Danish civil engineer |
Peggy Ashcroft |
Actor |
22-Dec-1907 |
14-Jun-1991 |
A Passage to India |
Laura Ashley |
Fashion Designer |
7-Sep-1925 |
17-Sep-1985 |
Welsh designer |
Arthur Askey |
Comic |
6-Jun-1900 |
16-Nov-1982 |
Horn-rimmed British comic |
Eileen Atkins |
Actor |
16-Jun-1934 |
|
Co-Creator of Upstairs, Downstairs |
David Attenborough |
Naturalist |
8-May-1926 |
|
Life on Earth |
Richard Attenborough |
Film Director |
29-Aug-1923 |
|
Gandhi |
Angela Baddeley |
Actor |
4-Jul-1904 |
22-Feb-1976 |
Upstairs, Downstairs |
Leslie Banks |
Actor |
9-Jun-1890 |
21-Apr-1952 |
The Most Dangerous Game |
Pat Barker |
Novelist |
8-May-1943 |
|
Regeneration |
Vernon Bartlett |
Journalist |
30-Apr-1894 |
18-Jan-1983 |
Journey's End |
Shirley Bassey |
Singer |
8-Jan-1937 |
|
Goldfinger |
Alan Bates |
Actor |
17-Feb-1934 |
27-Dec-2003 |
Basil in Zorba the Greek |
H. E. Bates |
Novelist |
16-May-1905 |
29-Jan-1974 |
The Jacaranda Tree |
Richard Rodney Bennett |
Composer |
29-Mar-1936 |
|
The Mines of Sulphur |
Lennox Berkeley |
Composer |
12-May-1903 |
26-Dec-1989 |
Stabat Mater |
Isaiah Berlin |
Philosopher |
6-Jun-1909 |
5-Nov-1997 |
The Hedgehog and the Fox |
John Betjeman |
Poet |
28-Aug-1906 |
19-May-1984 |
Summoned By Bells |
Brebis Bleaney |
Physicist |
6-Jun-1915 |
4-Nov-2006 |
Electron paramagnetic resonance |
Alec Boksenberg |
Astronomer |
18-Mar-1936 |
|
Image Photon Counting System |
Robert Bolt |
Playwright |
15-Aug-1924 |
20-Feb-1995 |
A Man for All Seasons |
John G. Bolton |
Astronomer |
5-Jun-1922 |
6-Jul-1993 |
First Director of Parkes Observatory |
Malcolm Bradbury |
Critic |
7-Sep-1932 |
27-Nov-2000 |
The History Man |
William Bragg |
Physicist |
2-Jul-1862 |
12-Mar-1942 |
Analyzed crystal structures |
Julian Bream |
Guitarist |
15-Jul-1933 |
|
Guitarist and lutenist |
Richard Briers |
Actor |
14-Jan-1934 |
|
Tom Good on The Good Life |
Peter Brook |
Theater Director |
21-Mar-1925 |
|
Lord of the Flies |
Anita Brookner |
Novelist |
16-Jul-1928 |
|
Hotel Du Lac |
Tina Brown |
Editor |
21-Nov-1953 |
|
The Daily Beast and Newsweek |
Deborah Bull |
Dancer |
22-Mar-1963 |
|
Principal Dancer, Royal Ballet, 1992-2001 |
Jocelyn Bell Burnell |
Astronomer |
15-Jul-1943 |
|
Co-Discoverer of pulsars |
A. S. Byatt |
Critic |
24-Aug-1936 |
|
Possession |
Michael Caine |
Actor |
14-Mar-1933 |
|
Get Carter |
Simon Callow |
Actor |
13-Jun-1949 |
|
British theatre actor |
Menzies Campbell |
Politician |
22-May-1941 |
|
Leader of the Liberal Democrats, 2006-07 |
Helena Bonham Carter |
Actor |
26-May-1966 |
|
Marla in Fight Club |
Peregrine Cavendish |
Aristocrat |
12-Apr-1944 |
|
12th Duke of Devonshire |
Bob Charles |
Golf |
14-Mar-1936 |
|
Winner, 1963 British Open |
Bobby Charlton |
Soccer |
11-Oct-1937 |
|
Manchester United |
Agatha Christie |
Novelist |
15-Sep-1890 |
12-Jan-1976 |
Mystery novelist |
Petula Clark |
Singer |
15-Nov-1932 |
|
Goodbye, Mr. Chips |
John Cockcroft |
Physicist |
27-May-1897 |
18-Sep-1967 |
Split the atom |
Christopher Cockerell |
Inventor |
4-Jun-1910 |
1-Jun-1999 |
Hovercraft |
Billy Connolly |
Comic |
24-Nov-1942 |
|
Scottish comedian |
E. J. H. Corner |
Botanist |
12-Jan-1906 |
14-Sep-1996 |
Durian theory |
Cicely Courtneidge |
Actor |
1-Apr-1893 |
26-Apr-1980 |
The Ghost Train |
Brian Cox |
Actor |
1-Jun-1946 |
|
The original Hannibal Lecter |
Leslie Crowther |
TV Personality |
6-Feb-1933 |
29-Sep-1996 |
The Price Is Right |
Constance Cummings |
Actor |
15-May-1910 |
23-Nov-2005 |
Blithe Spirit |
Stephen Daldry |
Film Director |
2-May-1961 |
|
The Hours |
Roger Daltrey |
Singer |
1-Mar-1944 |
|
Vocalist for The Who |
Ray Davies |
Musician |
21-Jun-1944 |
|
Frontman for The Kinks |
Andrew Davis |
Conductor |
2-Feb-1944 |
|
Music Director, Lyric Opera of Chicago |
Colin Davis |
Conductor |
25-Sep-1927 |
|
Principal Conductor, LSO, 1995-2006 |
Michael Denison |
Actor |
1-Nov-1915 |
22-Jul-1998 |
Shadowlands |
Margaret Drabble |
Novelist |
5-Jun-1939 |
|
The Millstone |
Carol Ann Duffy |
Poet |
23-Dec-1955 |
|
Mean Time |
James Dyson |
Inventor |
2-May-1947 |
|
Dyson vacuum cleaner |
Paul Eddington |
Actor |
18-Jun-1927 |
4-Nov-1995 |
Jim Hacker on Yes, Prime Minister |
Robert G. Edwards |
Scientist |
27-Sep-1925 |
|
In vitro fertilization |
Denholm Elliott |
Actor |
31-May-1922 |
6-Oct-1992 |
A Room with a View |
Amelia C. Fawcett |
Business |
c. 1956 |
|
COO of Morgan Stanley Intl., 2002-06 |
Frank Finlay |
Actor |
6-Aug-1926 |
|
Othello |
Bryan Forbes |
Actor |
22-Jul-1926 |
|
King Rat |
Bruce Forsyth |
TV Personality |
22-Feb-1928 |
|
Sunday Night at the Palladium |
Frederick Forsyth |
Novelist |
25-Aug-1938 |
|
The Day of the Jackal |
Alfred Fowler |
Astronomer |
22-Mar-1868 |
24-Jun-1940 |
Celestial spectroscopy |
Dick Francis |
Novelist |
31-Oct-1920 |
14-Feb-2010 |
Dead Cert |
Dennis Gabor |
Physicist |
5-Jun-1900 |
8-Feb-1979 |
Inventor of holography |
Michael Gambon |
Actor |
19-Oct-1940 |
|
The Singing Detective |
Barry Gibb |
Musician |
1-Sep-1946 |
|
Guitarist and vocalist for the Bee Gees |
Maurice Gibb |
Bassist |
22-Dec-1949 |
12-Jan-2003 |
Bassist and vocalist of Bee Gees |
Robin Gibb |
Singer |
22-Dec-1949 |
20-May-2012 |
Vocalist for the Bee Gees |
David Gilmour |
Guitarist |
6-Mar-1946 |
|
Guitarist for Pink Floyd |
E. H. Gombrich |
Historian |
30-Mar-1909 |
3-Nov-2001 |
Art and Illusion |
Marius Goring |
Actor |
23-May-1912 |
30-Sep-1998 |
The Red Shoes |
Susan Greenfield |
Scientist |
1-Oct-1950 |
|
Brain Story |
Richard Gregory |
Psychologist |
24-Jul-1923 |
17-May-2010 |
Optical illusions and "hands-on" science |
Alec Guinness |
Actor |
2-Apr-1914 |
5-Aug-2000 |
Obi-Wan Kenobi in Star Wars |
Peter Hall |
Theater Director |
22-Nov-1930 |
|
Work Is a 4-Letter Word |
Joan Hammond |
Singer |
24-May-1912 |
26-Nov-1996 |
Operatic soprano |
Christopher Hampton |
Playwright |
26-Jan-1946 |
|
Dangerous Liaisons |
Robert Hardy |
Actor |
29-Oct-1925 |
|
All Creatures Great and Small |
L. P. Hartley |
Novelist |
30-Dec-1895 |
13-Dec-1972 |
The Boat |
Stephen Hawking |
Physicist |
8-Jan-1942 |
|
Wheelchair-bound physicist |
Nigel Hawthorne |
Actor |
5-Apr-1929 |
26-Dec-2001 |
The Madness of King George |
Antony Head |
Politician |
1906 |
1983 |
UK Minister of Defence, 1956-57 |
Lenny Henry |
Comic |
29-Aug-1958 |
|
The Lenny Henry Show |
Myra Hess |
Pianist |
25-Feb-1890 |
26-Nov-1965 |
Held lunchtime concerts during WWII |
Raymond Hide |
Physicist |
17-May-1929 |
|
Earth's rotation |
Ian Holm |
Actor |
12-Sep-1931 |
|
Time Bandits |
Julius C. Holmes |
Diplomat |
24-Apr-1899 |
15-Jul-1968 |
US Ambassador to Iran, 1961-65 |
Bob Hope |
Comic |
29-May-1903 |
27-Jul-2003 |
Centenarian comic |
Anthony Hopkins |
Actor |
31-Dec-1937 |
|
Hannibal Lecter |
Trevor Howard |
Actor |
29-Sep-1913 |
7-Jan-1988 |
Sons and Lovers |
John Hurt |
Actor |
22-Jan-1940 |
|
Alien |
Lord Inge |
Military |
5-Aug-1935 |
|
British Field Marshal |
Jony Ive |
Designer |
Feb-1967 |
|
Senior VP of Industrial Design, Apple |
Tony Jacklin |
Golf |
7-Jul-1944 |
|
Winner of 2 Majors |
Glenda Jackson |
Actor |
9-May-1936 |
|
British MP, won Oscar for A Touch of Class |
Derek Jacobi |
Actor |
22-Oct-1938 |
|
Claudius on I, Claudius |
Sylvia Jay |
Business |
c. 1947 |
|
Food and Drink Federation |
Elizabeth Jennings |
Poet |
18-Jul-1926 |
26-Oct-2001 |
Song for a Birth or a Death |
Elton John |
Singer/Songwriter |
25-Mar-1947 |
|
Goodbye Yellow Brick Road |
DeAnne S. Julius |
Economist |
14-Apr-1949 |
|
Chairman, Royal Institute of International Affairs |
Pierre H. Jungels |
Business |
c. 1945 |
|
CEO of Enterprise Oil, 1997-2001 |
Charles K. Kao |
Scientist |
4-Nov-1933 |
|
Fiber optics |
Felicity Kendal |
Actor |
25-Sep-1946 |
|
The Good Life |
John C. Kendrew |
Chemist |
24-Mar-1917 |
23-Aug-1997 |
Determined structure of myoglobin |
Paul Kennedy |
Historian |
Jun-1945 |
|
The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers |
Deborah Kerr |
Actor |
30-Sep-1921 |
16-Oct-2007 |
From Here to Eternity |
Tom Kibble |
Mathematician |
1932 |
|
Zurek-Kibble theory |
Jeremy R. Knowles |
Business |
1935 |
|
Chemistry Professor, Harvard University |
Arthur Koestler |
Author |
3-Sep-1905 |
3-Mar-1983 |
Darkness at Noon |
Nicholas Kurti |
Physicist |
14-May-1908 |
24-Nov-1998 |
Molecular gastronomy |
Angela Lansbury |
Actor |
16-Oct-1925 |
|
Murder She Wrote |
Philip Larkin |
Poet |
9-Aug-1922 |
2-Dec-1985 |
The Whitsun Weddings |
Denys Lasdun |
Architect |
8-Sep-1914 |
11-Jan-2001 |
British modernist architect |
Christopher Lee |
Actor |
27-May-1922 |
|
The Face of Fu Manchu |
Maureen Lipman |
Actor |
10-May-1946 |
|
Agony |
Penelope Lively |
Novelist |
17-Mar-1933 |
|
Moon Tiger |
Selwyn Lloyd |
Politician |
28-Jul-1904 |
18-May-1978 |
Speaker, House of Commons, 1971-76 |
Margaret Lockwood |
Actor |
15-Sep-1916 |
15-Jul-1990 |
Cast a Dark Shadow |
David Lodge |
Novelist |
28-Jan-1935 |
|
How Far Can You Go? |
Donald Lynden-Bell |
Astronomer |
5-Apr-1935 |
|
Astrophysicist at Cambridge |
Neville Marriner |
Conductor |
15-Apr-1924 |
|
Academy of St. Martin in the Fields |
Archer J. P. Martin |
Chemist |
1-Mar-1910 |
28-Jul-2002 |
Partition chromatography |
Anna Massey |
Actor |
11-Aug-1937 |
3-Jul-2011 |
Peeping Tom |
Ian McEwan |
Novelist |
21-Jun-1948 |
|
Amsterdam |
Norris McWhirter |
Author |
12-Aug-1925 |
19-Apr-2004 |
Co-founder, Guinness Book of World Records |
Sam Mendes |
Film Director |
1-Aug-1965 |
|
American Beauty |
Bernard Miles |
Actor |
27-Sep-1907 |
14-Jun-1991 |
Founder of the Mermaid Theatre, London |
John Mills |
Actor |
22-Feb-1908 |
23-Apr-2005 |
Ryan's Daughter |
Anthony Minghella |
Film Director |
6-Jan-1954 |
18-Mar-2008 |
The English Patient |
Nancy Mitford |
Novelist |
28-Nov-1904 |
30-Jan-1973 |
The Pursuit of Love |
Dudley Moore |
Comic |
19-Apr-1935 |
27-Mar-2002 |
Arthur |
Patrick Moore |
TV Personality |
4-Mar-1923 |
|
BBC's The Sky At Night |
Roger Moore |
Actor |
14-Oct-1927 |
|
James Bond after Sean Connery |
Robert Morley |
Actor |
26-May-1908 |
3-Jun-1992 |
Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe? |
Jan Morris |
Journalist |
2-Oct-1926 |
|
Transsexual travel writer |
Ronald Neame |
Film Director |
23-Apr-1911 |
16-Jun-2010 |
The Poseidon Adventure |
Trevor Nunn |
Theater Director |
14-Jan-1940 |
|
Royal Shakespeare Company, 1968-86 |
Patrick O'Brian |
Novelist |
12-Dec-1914 |
2-Jan-2000 |
The Aubreyad series |
Onora O'Neill |
Philosopher |
23-Aug-1941 |
|
President of the British Academy, 2005-09 |
Lindsay Owen-Jones |
Business |
17-Mar-1946 |
|
CEO of L'Oreal, 1988-2006 |
Eduardo Paolozzi |
Sculptor |
7-Mar-1924 |
22-Apr-2005 |
Surrealist sculptor |
Nick Park |
Film Director |
6-Dec-1958 |
|
Wallace and Gromit |
Alan Parker |
Film Director |
14-Feb-1944 |
|
Pink Floyd: The Wall |
Rudolf Peierls |
Physicist |
5-Jun-1907 |
19-Sep-1995 |
Frisch-Peierls Memorandum |
Max F. Perutz |
Chemist |
19-May-1914 |
6-Feb-2002 |
X-Ray analysis of hemoglobin |
Siân Phillips |
Actor |
14-May-1934 |
|
I, Claudius |
Charles J. Pilliod, Jr. |
Business |
20-Oct-1918 |
|
CEO of Goodyear, 1974-83 |
Harold Pinter |
Playwright |
10-Oct-1930 |
24-Dec-2008 |
The Birthday Party |
Robert Plant |
Singer |
20-Aug-1948 |
|
Lead singer of Led Zeppelin |
John S. Plaskett |
Astronomer |
17-Nov-1865 |
17-Oct-1941 |
Plaskett's star |
Joan Plowright |
Actor |
28-Oct-1929 |
|
Enchanted April |
George H. Poste |
Biologist |
c. 1944 |
|
Health Technology Networks |
Simon Preston |
Organist |
4-Aug-1938 |
|
Organist at Westminster Abbey, 1981-87 |
V. S. Pritchett |
Author |
16-Dec-1900 |
20-Mar-1997 |
Midnight Oil |
John Profumo |
Politician |
30-Jan-1915 |
10-Mar-2006 |
Resigned House of Commons over an affair |
Joseph Proudman |
Mathematician |
30-Dec-1888 |
26-Jun-1975 |
Tidal currents |
Philip Pullman |
Novelist |
19-Oct-1946 |
|
His Dark Materials |
David E. I. Pyott |
Business |
c. 1953 |
|
CEO of Allergan |
Anthony Quayle |
Actor |
7-Sep-1913 |
20-Oct-1989 |
Ice-Cold in Alex |
Kathleen Raine |
Poet |
14-Jun-1908 |
6-Jul-2003 |
Cambridge poet, scholar of Blake |
Terence Rattigan |
Playwright |
10-Jun-1911 |
30-Nov-1977 |
Separate Tables |
Michael Redgrave |
Actor |
20-Mar-1908 |
21-Mar-1985 |
Mourning Becomes Electra |
Vanessa Redgrave |
Actor |
30-Jan-1937 |
|
Julia |
Jean Rhys |
Novelist |
24-Aug-1890 |
14-May-1979 |
Wide Sargasso Sea |
Ian Richardson |
Actor |
7-Apr-1934 |
9-Feb-2007 |
House of Cards |
Diana Rigg |
Actor |
20-Jul-1938 |
|
Mrs. Peel |
Bobby Robson |
Soccer |
18-Feb-1933 |
31-Jul-2009 |
English soccer manager |
Flora Robson |
Actor |
28-Mar-1902 |
7-Jul-1984 |
Fire Over England |
Joseph Rotblat |
Physicist |
4-Nov-1908 |
31-Aug-2005 |
Nuclear physicist, anti-nuke activist |
Patricia Routledge |
Actor |
17-Feb-1929 |
|
Hetty Wainthropp |
Frederick Sanger |
Chemist |
13-Aug-1918 |
|
Two-time Nobel laureate in chemistry |
Vidal Sassoon |
Business |
17-Jan-1928 |
9-May-2012 |
Celebrity hairstylist |
John Schlesinger |
Film Director |
16-Feb-1926 |
25-Jul-2003 |
Marathon Man |
David G. Scholey |
Business |
28-Jun-1935 |
|
Former CEO of SG Warburg |
Paul Scofield |
Actor |
21-Jan-1922 |
19-Mar-2008 |
A Man For All Seaons |
Harry Secombe |
Actor |
8-Sep-1921 |
11-Apr-2001 |
Neddie Seagoon on The Goon Show |
Peter Sellers |
Actor |
8-Sep-1925 |
24-Jul-1980 |
Inspector Clouseau |
Fiona Shaw |
Actor |
10-Jul-1958 |
|
British theatre actress |
Alastair Sim |
Actor |
9-Oct-1900 |
19-Aug-1976 |
Scrooge in A Christmas Carol |
Donald Sinden |
Actor |
9-Oct-1923 |
|
Two's Company |
David J. H. Smith |
Business |
c. 1942 |
|
CEO of Whatman plc, 1996-2001 |
Maggie Smith |
Actor |
28-Dec-1934 |
|
Prof. McGonagall in Harry Potter |
C. P. Snow |
Author |
15-Oct-1905 |
1-Jul-1980 |
The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution |
Stephen Spender |
Poet |
28-Feb-1909 |
16-Jul-1995 |
The Destructive Element |
Patrick Steptoe |
Doctor |
9-Jun-1913 |
21-Mar-1988 |
In vitro fertilization |
Dennis Stevenson |
Business |
19-Jul-1945 |
|
Chairman of HBOS |
Juliet Stevenson |
Actor |
30-Oct-1956 |
|
Truly Madly Deeply |
Sting |
Singer/Songwriter |
2-Oct-1951 |
|
Lead singer of The Police |
Tom Stoppard |
Playwright |
3-Jul-1937 |
|
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead |
Joan Sutherland |
Singer |
7-Nov-1926 |
10-Oct-2010 |
"La Stupenda" opera soprano |
Eric Sykes |
Actor |
4-May-1923 |
4-Jul-2012 |
The Plank |
Lionel Tertis |
Violist |
29-Dec-1876 |
22-Feb-1975 |
First prominent violist |
John Thaw |
Actor |
3-Jan-1942 |
21-Feb-2002 |
Inspector Morse |
Ernest Thesiger |
Actor |
15-Jan-1879 |
14-Jan-1961 |
Dr. Pretorius in Bride of Frankenstein |
Daley Thompson |
Track and Field |
30-Jul-1958 |
|
Olympic decathlete |
J. R. R. Tolkien |
Author |
3-Jan-1892 |
2-Sep-1973 |
Lord of the Rings |
William Trevor |
Novelist |
24-May-1928 |
|
The Old Boys |
Michael J. Turner |
Business |
c. 1948 |
|
CEO of BAE Systems |
Dorothy Tutin |
Actor |
8-Apr-1930 |
6-Aug-2001 |
Savage Messiah |
Margaret Tyzack |
Actor |
9-Sep-1931 |
25-Jun-2011 |
The Forsyte Saga |
Peter Ustinov |
Actor |
16-Apr-1921 |
28-Mar-2004 |
British stage actor |
Frankie Vaughan |
Singer |
3-Feb-1928 |
18-Sep-1999 |
Give Me the Moonlight, Give Me the Girl |
Virginia Wade |
Tennis |
10-Jul-1945 |
|
Winner of 7 Grand Slam titles |
Terry Waite |
Victim |
31-May-1939 |
|
Hostage negotiator, then hostage |
Zoë Wanamaker |
Actor |
13-May-1949 |
|
Susan Harper on My Family |
Keith Waterhouse |
Novelist |
6-Feb-1929 |
4-Sep-2009 |
Billy Liar |
Harvey Weinstein |
Film/TV Producer |
19-Mar-1952 |
|
Miramax and The Weinstein Co. |
Roger Wheeler |
Military |
1943 |
|
Head of the British Army, 1997-2000 |
Mary Whitehouse |
Activist |
13-Jun-1910 |
23-Nov-2001 |
British anti-pornography crusader |
Billie Whitelaw |
Actor |
6-Jun-1932 |
|
The Krays |
June Whitfield |
Actor |
11-Nov-1925 |
|
Terry and June |
Emlyn Williams |
Playwright |
26-Nov-1905 |
25-Sep-1987 |
Night Must Fall |
Googie Withers |
Actor |
12-Mar-1917 |
15-Jul-2011 |
One of Our Aircraft Is Missing |
Donald Wolfit |
Actor |
20-Apr-1902 |
17-Feb-1968 |
Svengali |
John Wood |
Actor |
5-Jul-1930 |
6-Aug-2011 |
Dr. Falken in WarGames |
Cecil Woodham-Smith |
Historian |
29-Apr-1896 |
16-Mar-1977 |
Florence Nightingale |
Irene Worth |
Actor |
23-Jun-1916 |
10-Mar-2002 |
Lost in Yonkers |
Diana Wynyard |
Actor |
16-Jan-1906 |
13-May-1964 |
Gaslight |
Chung Ju Yung |
Business |
25-Nov-1915 |
21-Mar-2001 |
Founder of Hyundai |
Catherine Zeta-Jones |
Actor |
25-Sep-1969 |
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