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NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
John Abbott
Head of State
12-Mar-1821 30-Oct-1893 Prime Minister of Canada, 1891-93
Cornelius Agrippa
Magician
14-Sep-1486 18-Feb-1535 Three Books of Occult Philosophy
George Biddell Airy
Astronomer
27-Jul-1801 2-Jan-1892 British Astronomer Royal
Lawrence Alma-Tadema
Painter
8-Jan-1836 25-Jun-1912 Classicist painter
Hardy Amies
Fashion Designer
17-Jul-1909 5-Mar-2003 Dressmaker to Queen Elizabeth II
Joachim Andersen
Musician
29-Apr-1847 7-May-1909 Danish flautist and composer for flute
John Anderson
Politician
8-Jul-1882 4-Jan-1958 Chancellor of the Exchequer, 1943-45
Edmund Andros
Government
6-Dec-1637 24-Feb-1714 American colonial governor
Edward Victor Appleton
Physicist
6-Sep-1892 21-Apr-1965 Ionosphere, shortwave radio
Malcolm Arnold
Composer
21-Oct-1921 23-Sep-2006 The Bridge on the River Kwai
Humphrey Atkins
Politician
12-Aug-1922 4-Oct-1996 Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, 1979-81
Clement Attlee
Head of State
3-Jan-1883 8-Oct-1967 UK Prime Minister, 1945-51
A. J. Ayer
Philosopher
29-Oct-1910 27-Jun-1989 Language, Truth and Logic
Sir Richard Baker
Historian
c. 1568 18-Feb-1645 Chronicle of the Kings of England
Sir Samuel White Baker
Explorer
8-Jun-1821 30-Dec-1893 Travelled to the source of the Nile
Arthur Balfour
Head of State
25-Jul-1848 19-Mar-1930 UK Prime Minister, 1902-05
John Barbirolli
Conductor
2-Dec-1899 29-Jul-1970 Conductor at The Hallé, 1943-70
Arnold Bax
Composer
8-Nov-1883 3-Oct-1953 Symphonist, Tone Poet
William Bayliss
Doctor
2-May-1860 27-Aug-1924 Co-Discovered hormones
Thomas Beecham
Conductor
29-Apr-1879 8-Mar-1961 Founder, London and Royal Philharmonics
Sir Charles Bell
Doctor
Nov-1774 28-Apr-1842 New Idea of Anatomy of the Brain
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
William Beveridge
Economist
5-Mar-1879 16-Mar-1963 Social Insurance and Allied Services
Rudolf Bing
Business
9-Jan-1902 2-Sep-1997 Manager of the NY Metropolitan Opera, 1950-72
Winfried Bischoff
Business
1941   Chairman of Citigroup
Joh Bjelke-Petersen
Politician
13-Jan-1911 23-Apr-2005 Former Premier of Queensland, Australia
William Blackstone
Judge
10-Jul-1723 14-Feb-1780 Commentaries on the Laws of England
Arthur Bliss
Composer
2-Aug-1891 28-Mar-1975 Morning Heroes
Anthony Blunt
Historian
26-Sep-1907 26-Mar-1983 Art historian, Soviet spy
Thomas Bodley
Scholar
2-Mar-1545 28-Jan-1613 Bodleian Library
Dirk Bogarde
Actor
28-Mar-1921 8-May-1999 A Bridge Too Far
Robert Laird Borden
Head of State
26-Jun-1854 10-Jun-1937 Prime Minister of Canada, 1911-20
J. C. Bose
Botanist
30-Nov-1858 23-Nov-1937 Plant physiology
Walther Bothe
Physicist
8-Jan-1891 8-Feb-1957 Coincidence method
Adrian Boult
Conductor
8-Apr-1889 23-Feb-1983 Conductor, BBC Symphony Orchestra, 1930-50
Mackenzie Bowell
Head of State
27-Dec-1824 10-Dec-1917 Prime Minister of Canada, 1894-96
Sir John Bowring
Author
17-Oct-1792 23-Nov-1872 4th Governor of Hong Kong
Malcolm Bradbury
Critic
7-Sep-1932 27-Nov-2000 The History Man
Leon Brittan
Politician
25-Sep-1939   UK Home Secretary, 1983-85
Arthur Bryant
Historian
18-Feb-1899 2-Jan-1985 Biographer of Samuel Pepys
Alan Bullock
Historian
13-Dec-1914 2-Feb-2004 Historian of Hitler, Stalin
John Bernard Burke
Historian
5-Jan-1814 12-Dec-1892 Burke's Peerage
Rab Butler
Politician
9-Dec-1902 8-Mar-1982 UK Foreign Secretary, 1963-64
James Callaghan
Politician
27-Mar-1912 26-Mar-2005 UK Prime Minister, 1976-79
George Cave
Politician
23-Feb-1856 29-Mar-1928 Lord Chancellor of Britain, 1922-28
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
John Cockcroft
Physicist
27-May-1897 18-Sep-1967 Split the atom
Henry Cotton
Golf
26-Jan-1907 22-Dec-1987 Won the British Open three times
Tom Courtenay
Actor
25-Feb-1937   The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner
Randal Cremer
Politician
18-Mar-1828 22-Jul-1908 Pacifist, Nobel Prize recipient
Sir William Crookes
Chemist
17-Jun-1832 4-Apr-1919 Discovered element Thallium
Sir William Cubitt
Engineer
1785 13-Oct-1861 British civil engineer
Sir Samuel Cunard
Business
21-Nov-1787 28-Apr-1865 Founder, Cunard Lines
Sir Simonds D'Ewes
Curator
18-Dec-1602 18-Apr-1650 Journals of all the Parliaments
Sir William Davenant
Poet
1606 7-Apr-1668 Gondibert
Sir John Davies
Poet
16-Apr-1569 8-Dec-1626 Orchestra, or a Poem of Dancing
Andrew Davis
Conductor
2-Feb-1944   Music Director, Lyric Opera of Chicago
Colin Davis
Conductor
25-Sep-1927   Principal Conductor, LSO, 1995-2006
Humphry Davy
Chemist
17-Dec-1778 29-May-1829 Leading early 19th century chemist
John William Dawson
Geologist
30-Oct-1820 20-Nov-1899 Air Breathers of the Coal Period
Henry de la Beche
Geologist
1796 13-Apr-1855 Created first Geologic Survey
Sir John Denham
Poet
1615 10-Mar-1669 Cooper's Hill
James Dewar
Physicist
20-Sep-1842 27-Mar-1923 Researcher of low temperatures
Sir Thomas Elyot
Scholar
c. 1490 26-Mar-1546 Boke named the Governour
Sir Richard Empson
Government
? 17-Aug-1510 Taxman for Henry VII of England
William Empson
Critic
27-Sep-1906 15-Apr-1984 Seven Types of Ambiguity
Jacob Epstein
Sculptor
10-Nov-1880 21-Aug-1959 Strand Statues
George Etherege
Playwright
c. 1635 10-May-1692 Love in a Tub
Edward Evans-Pritchard
Anthropologist
21-Sep-1902 11-Sep-1973 Theories of Primitive Religion
Francis Galton
Anthropologist
16-Feb-1822 17-Jan-1911 Word Association Test
W. S. Gilbert
Composer
18-Nov-1836 29-May-1911 Gilbert & Sullivan
Victor Gollancz
Publisher
9-Apr-1893 8-Feb-1967 Founder of Victor Gollancz, Ltd.
E. H. Gombrich
Historian
30-Mar-1909 3-Nov-2001 Art and Illusion
William C. Gorgas
Doctor
3-Oct-1854 3-Jul-1920 Malaria and yellow fever
John Gorton
Head of State
9-Sep-1911 19-May-2002 Prime Minister of Australia, 1968-71
Lawrence Gowing
Historian
21-Apr-1918 5-Feb-1991 Art historian, biographer of Vermeer
Sir Richard Grenville
Military
c. 1541 1591 Commander of the Revenge
Tyrone Guthrie
Theater Director
2-Jul-1900 15-May-1971 Influential Anglo-Irish theatre director
Sir Matthew Hale
Judge
1-Nov-1609 25-Dec-1676 Lord Chief Justice of England
Peter Hall
Theater Director
22-Nov-1930   Work Is a 4-Letter Word
Sir Charles Hallé
Pianist
11-Apr-1819 25-Oct-1895 Founder, Hallé Orchestra
Henry Hardinge
Military
30-Mar-1785 24-Sep-1856 Governor-General of India, 1844-48
Cedric Hardwicke
Actor
19-Feb-1893 6-Aug-1964 Suspicion
William Snow Harris
Physicist
1-Apr-1791 22-Jan-1867 Invented a lightning rod for ships
Roy Harrod
Economist
13-Feb-1900 9-Mar-1978 Towards a Dynamic Economics
Hamilton Harty
Conductor
4-Dec-1879 19-Feb-1941 Principal Conductor, The Hallé, 1920-34
Max Hastings
Journalist
28-Dec-1945   Editor of the Daily Telegraph, 1986-95
Sir Christopher Hatton
Government
1540 1591 Lord Chancellor of England, 1587-91
Sir John Hawkins
Military
1532 12-Nov-1595 British admiral, slave trader
Sir John Hawkins
Author
30-Mar-1719 21-May-1789 History of Music
Sir Richard Hawkins
Military
c. 1562 18-Apr-1622 Voiage into the South Sea
Nigel Hawthorne
Actor
5-Apr-1929 26-Dec-2001 The Madness of King George
Herbert of Cherbury
Philosopher
3-Mar-1583 5-Aug-1648 De Veritate
John Herschel
Astronomer
7-Mar-1792 11-May-1871 Discovered many moons of Saturn
John R. Hicks
Economist
8-Apr-1904 20-May-1989 Value and Capital
Alfred Hitchcock
Film Director
13-Aug-1899 29-Apr-1980 Master of Suspense
Samuel Hoare
Politician
24-Feb-1880 7-May-1959 UK Home Secretary, 1937-39
Sidney Holland
Head of State
18-Oct-1893 5-Aug-1961 Prime Minister of New Zealand, 1949-57
Keith Holyoake
Head of State
11-Feb-1904 8-Dec-1983 Prime Minister of New Zealand, 1960-72
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Botanist
30-Jun-1817 10-Dec-1911 Genera Plantarum
Anthony Hope
Novelist
9-Feb-1863 8-Jul-1933 The Prisoner of Zenda
Anthony Hopkins
Actor
31-Dec-1937   Hannibal Lecter
Ralph Hopton
Military
1596 Sep-1652 Royalist commander, English Civil War
Michael Hordern
Actor
3-Oct-1911 2-May-1995 The Slipper and the Rose
Robert B. Horton
Business
18-Aug-1939   CEO of BP, 1989-92
William Hoste
Military
26-Aug-1780 6-Dec-1828 British naval captain
Sir Robert Howard
Playwright
1626 3-Sep-1698 The Committee
Geoffrey Howe
Politician
20-Dec-1926   UK Foreign Secretary, 1983-89
Trevor Huddleston
Religion
15-Jun-1913 20-Apr-1998 Anti-Apartheid activist
William Huggins
Astronomer
7-Feb-1824 12-May-1910 Spectrographic astronomy pioneer
Sir James Ivory
Mathematician
17-Feb-1765 21-Sep-1842 Ivory's Theorem
Peter Jackson
Film Director
31-Oct-1961   The Lord of the Rings trilogy
David Jason
Actor
2-Feb-1940   Only Fools and Horses
Michael Jay
Diplomat
Jun-1946   UK Ambassador to France, 1996-2001
John Scarlett
Spy
18-Aug-1948   Head of MI6
Elton John
Singer/Songwriter
25-Mar-1947   Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
Archibald Johnston
Religion
1611 22-Jul-1663 Scottish presbyterian patriot
Russell Johnston
Politician
28-Jul-1932 27-Jul-2008 Liberal MP from Inverness, 1964-97
Alfred Kastler
Physicist
3-May-1902 7-Jan-1984 Optical pumping
John Keegan
Historian
15-May-1934   The Face of Battle
Frank Kermode
Critic
29-Nov-1919 17-Aug-2010 The Sense of an Ending
Ben Kingsley
Actor
31-Dec-1943   Gandhi
Alexander Korda
Film Director
16-Sep-1893 23-Jan-1956 The Private Life of Henry VIII
Freddie Laker
Business
6-Aug-1922 9-Feb-2006 Founder of Laker Airlines
Harry Lauder
Singer
4-Aug-1870 26-Feb-1950 Roamin' in the Gloamin'
Max von Laue
Physicist
9-Oct-1879 23-Apr-1960 X-ray crystallography
Sir Thomas Lawrence
Painter
13-Apr-1769 7-Jan-1830 English portrait painter
Andrew Lloyd Webber
Composer
22-Mar-1948   Evita
Sir Hudson Lowe
Military
28-Jul-1769 10-Jan-1844 Governor of St. Helena over Napoleon
Sir Thomas Lucy
Aristocrat
24-Apr-1532 7-Jul-1600 Caricatured by Shakespeare
Edwin Lutyens
Architect
29-Mar-1869 1-Jan-1944 Laid the plan for New Delhi
Compton MacKenzie
Novelist
17-Jan-1883 30-Nov-1972 Carnival
Fitzroy Maclean
Politician
11-Mar-1911 15-Jun-1996 Eastern Approaches
Sir Thomas Malory
Author
c. 1410 14-Mar-1471 Le Morte d'Arthur
Jack Marshall
Head of State
5-Mar-1912 30-Aug-1988 Prime Minister of New Zealand, 1972
Sir Hiram Maxim
Inventor
5-Feb-1840 24-Nov-1916 Maxim machine gun
Patrick Mayhew
Politician
11-Sep-1929   Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, 1992-97
John McEwen
Head of State
29-Mar-1900 20-Nov-1980 Prime Minister of Australia, 1967-68
William McMahon
Head of State
23-Feb-1908 31-Mar-1988 Prime Minister of Australia, 1971-72
Edward Mellanby
Doctor
8-Apr-1884 30-Jan-1955 Rickets
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
John Mortimer
Playwright
21-Apr-1923 16-Jan-2009 Rumpole of the Bailey
Robert Muldoon
Head of State
25-Sep-1921 5-Aug-1992 Prime Minister of New Zealand, 1975-84
Arne Naess
Philosopher
27-Jan-1912 12-Jan-2009 Ecological philosopher
V. S. Naipaul
Author
17-Aug-1932   A House for Mr. Biswas
Walter Nash
Head of State
12-Feb-1882 4-Jun-1968 Prime Minister of New Zealand, 1957-60
Louis Néel
Physicist
22-Nov-1904 17-Nov-2000 Magnetic properties of solids
Walther Nernst
Chemist
25-Jun-1864 18-Nov-1941 Third Law of Thermodynamics
Philip Noel-Baker
Politician
1-Nov-1889 8-Oct-1982 Instrumental creating League of Nations and UN
Trevor Nunn
Theater Director
14-Jan-1940   Royal Shakespeare Company, 1968-86
Sir Richard Owen
Naturalist
20-Jul-1804 18-Dec-1892 A History of British Fossil Reptiles
Earle Page
Head of State
8-Aug-1880 20-Dec-1961 Prime Minister of Australia, 1939
Geoffrey Palmer
Head of State
21-Apr-1942   Prime Minister of New Zealand, 1989-90
Sir Anthony Panizzi
Curator
16-Sep-1797 8-Apr-1879 Librarian of the British Museum
Rudolf Peierls
Physicist
5-Jun-1907 19-Sep-1995 Frisch-Peierls Memorandum
Roger Penrose
Mathematician
8-Aug-1931   Theory of cosmic censorship
William Henry Perkin
Chemist
12-Mar-1838 14-Jul-1907 Invented mauve
Sir Isaac Pitman
Inventor
4-Jan-1813 12-Jan-1897 Stenographic Soundhand
J. H. Plumb
Historian
20-Aug-1911 21-Oct-2001 England in the Eighteenth Century
John A. Pople
Chemist
31-Oct-1925 15-Mar-2004 Quantum mechanics of molecules
Karl Popper
Philosopher
28-Jul-1902 17-Sep-1994 Critical Rationalist
George Porter
Chemist
6-Dec-1920 31-Aug-2002 Rapid chemical and biological processes
Charles Powell
Business
6-Jun-1941   Private Secretary to Thatcher, 1983-90
Sir Edward Poynter
Painter
20-Mar-1836 26-Jul-1919 British Neo-Classical painter
Ilya Prigogine
Chemist
25-Jan-1917 28-May-2003 Theory of dissipative structures
V. S. Pritchett
Author
16-Dec-1900 20-Mar-1997 Midnight Oil
Anthony Quayle
Actor
7-Sep-1913 20-Oct-1989 Ice-Cold in Alex
Sir William Ramsay
Chemist
2-Oct-1852 23-Jul-1916 Discovered noble gases
Terence Rattigan
Playwright
10-Jun-1911 30-Nov-1977 Separate Tables
Michael Redgrave
Actor
20-Mar-1908 21-Mar-1985 Mourning Becomes Electra
Joshua Reynolds
Painter
16-Jul-1723 23-Feb-1792 English portraitist
Ralph Richardson
Actor
19-Dec-1902 10-Oct-1983 Things To Come
Malcolm Rifkind
Politician
21-Jun-1946   UK Foreign Secretary, 1995-97
Adam Roberts
Historian
29-Aug-1940   President of the British Academy
Sir Charles G. D. Roberts
Poet
10-Jan-1860 26-Nov-1943 Earth's Enigmas
Bobby Robson
Soccer
18-Feb-1933 31-Jul-2009 English soccer manager
Ronald Ross
Scientist
13-May-1857 16-Sep-1932 Discovered malaria parasite in mosquitoes
Joseph Rotblat
Physicist
4-Nov-1908 31-Aug-2005 Nuclear physicist, anti-nuke activist
Bill Rowling
Head of State
15-Nov-1927 31-Oct-1995 Prime Minister of New Zealand, 1974-75
Benjamin Count Rumford
Scientist
26-Mar-1753 21-Aug-1814 Established the Rumford Medal
Ernest Rutherford
Physicist
30-Aug-1871 19-Oct-1937 Father of nuclear physics
Martin Ryle
Astronomer
27-Sep-1918 14-Oct-1984 Radio astronomer
Granville Ryrie
Military
1-Jul-1865 2-Oct-1937 Soldier, High Commissioner to the UK
Herbert Samuel
Politician
6-Nov-1870 2-Feb-1963 High Commissioner of Palestine, 1920-25
Malcolm Sargent
Conductor
29-Apr-1895 3-Oct-1967 Conductor, BBC Symphony, 1950-57
John Sawers
Diplomat
26-Jul-1955   Director-General Designate, MI6
George Shearing
Jazz Musician
13-Aug-1919 14-Feb-2011 George Shearing Quintet
Sir Robert Sibbald
Doctor
15-Apr-1641 Aug-1722 Scottish physician and antiquary
Sir Philip Sidney
Author
30-Nov-1554 17-Oct-1586 The Defence of Poesie
Donald Sinden
Actor
9-Oct-1923   Two's Company
C. Aubrey Smith
Actor
21-Jul-1863 20-Dec-1948 The Four Feathers
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
Sir Leslie Stephen
Encyclopaedist
28-Nov-1832 22-Feb-1904 Dictionary of National Biography
Jackie Stewart
Auto Racing
11-Jun-1939   Three time Formula-1 world champion
Sir Robert Strange
Engraver
14-Jul-1721 5-Jul-1792 Scottish line engraver
P. F. Strawson
Philosopher
23-Nov-1919 13-Feb-2006 Individuals
Sir John Suckling
Poet
1609 1642 Fragmenta Aurea
Arthur Sullivan
Composer
13-May-1842 22-Nov-1900 Gilbert & Sullivan
Sir Joseph Wilson Swan
Physicist
31-Oct-1828 27-May-1914 Light bulb, photographic printing
Rabindranath Tagore
Poet
7-May-1861 7-Aug-1941 Gitanjali
Godfrey Tearle
Actor
12-Oct-1884 8-Jun-1953 The 39 Steps
D'Arcy Thompson
Biologist
2-May-1860 21-Jun-1948 On Growth and Form
J. J. Thomson
Physicist
18-Dec-1856 30-Aug-1940 Discovered the electron
Herbert Beerbohm Tree
Actor
17-Dec-1853 2-Jul-1917 Founder, Royal Academy of Dramatic Art
William Trevor
Novelist
24-May-1928   The Old Boys
Edward Tylor
Anthropologist
2-Oct-1832 2-Jan-1917 Founder of cultural anthropology
Thomas Urquhart
Author
1611 1660 Translator of Rabelais
Anthony Van Dyck
Painter
22-Mar-1599 9-Dec-1641 Flemish portraitist and English court painter
Robert Walmsley
Military
1-Feb-1941   Retired Royal Navy Admiral
Sir Spencer Walpole
Historian
7-Feb-1839 7-Jul-1907 History of England from 1815
Sir Francis Walsingham
Government
c. 1532 6-Apr-1590 Secretary to Elizabeth I
William Walton
Composer
29-Mar-1902 8-Mar-1983 Troilus and Cressida
Joseph Ward
Head of State
26-Apr-1856 8-Jul-1930 Twice Prime Minister of New Zealand
Archibald Wavell
Military
5-May-1883 24-May-1950 British Field Marshal in WWII
Roy Welensky
Head of State
20-Jan-1907 5-Dec-1991 Rhodesian Prime Minister, 1956-63
Arnold Wesker
Playwright
24-May-1932   The Kitchen
Peter Westmacott
Diplomat
c. 1950   UK Ambassador to France
Charles Wheatstone
Physicist
6-Feb-1802 19-Oct-1875 Inventor of the telegraph
Mortimer Wheeler
Archaeologist
10-Sep-1890 22-Jul-1976 Archaeology from the Earth
William Whitelaw
Politician
28-Jun-1918 1-Jul-1999 UK Deputy Prime Minister, 1979-88
Bernard Williams
Philosopher
21-Sep-1929 10-Jun-2003 Leading moral philosopher
Angus Wilson
Novelist
11-Aug-1913 31-May-1991 Hemlock and After
Norman Wisdom
Actor
4-Feb-1915 4-Oct-2010 The Great British Clown
Christopher Wren
Architect
20-Oct-1632 25-Feb-1723 Designed St. Paul's Cathedral
Sir Thomas Wyat
Poet
1503 6-Oct-1542 Introduced sonnet to England


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