| | | | |
Edwin Abbey |
Painter |
1-Apr-1852 |
1-Aug-1911 |
American artist in London |
Edwin A. Abbott |
Author |
20-Dec-1838 |
12-Oct-1926 |
Flatland |
Leo Abse |
Politician |
22-Apr-1917 |
19-Aug-2008 |
Labour MP for Torfaen, 1983-87 |
Robert Adam |
Architect |
3-Jul-1728 |
3-Mar-1792 |
Scottish Neoclassical architect |
Dawn Addams |
Actor |
21-Sep-1930 |
7-May-1985 |
A King in New York |
Joseph Addison |
Author |
1-May-1672 |
17-Jun-1719 |
The Spectator |
Larry Adler |
Musician |
10-Feb-1914 |
6-Aug-2001 |
Mouth organ virtuoso |
Edgar Adrian |
Scientist |
30-Nov-1889 |
4-Aug-1977 |
Electricity within nerve cells |
George Biddell Airy |
Astronomer |
27-Jul-1801 |
2-Jan-1892 |
British Astronomer Royal |
Mark Akenside |
Poet |
9-Nov-1721 |
23-Jun-1770 |
The Pleasures of the Imagination |
James Aldridge |
Novelist |
10-Jul-1918 |
23-Feb-2015 |
The True Story of Lilli Stubeck |
Michael Aldridge |
Actor |
9-Sep-1920 |
10-Jan-1994 |
Seymour on Last of the Summer Wine |
Terence Alexander |
Actor |
11-Mar-1923 |
28-May-2009 |
Charlie Hungerford in Bergerac |
Princess Alice |
Royalty |
25-Dec-1901 |
29-Oct-2004 |
Late Duchess of Gloucester |
Dorothy Alison |
Actor |
4-Apr-1925 |
17-Jan-1992 |
See No Evil |
Dave Allen |
Comic |
6-Jul-1936 |
10-Mar-2005 |
Dave Allen at Large |
Walter Allen |
Novelist |
23-Feb-1911 |
28-Feb-1995 |
All in a Lifetime |
Edmund Allenby |
Military |
23-Apr-1861 |
14-May-1936 |
Defeated the Turks in WWI |
William Allingham |
Poet |
19-Mar-1824 |
18-Nov-1889 |
Day and Night Songs |
Eric Ambler |
Novelist |
28-Jun-1909 |
22-Oct-1998 |
Topkapi |
Kingsley Amis |
Novelist |
16-Apr-1922 |
22-Oct-1995 |
Lucky Jim |
Edmund Andros |
Government |
6-Dec-1637 |
24-Feb-1714 |
American colonial governor |
Queen Anne |
Royalty |
6-Feb-1665 |
1-Aug-1714 |
Queen of England, 1702-14 |
John Arbuthnot |
Doctor |
1667 |
27-Feb-1735 |
Scriblerus Club |
George Arliss |
Actor |
10-Apr-1868 |
5-Feb-1946 |
Disraeli |
Benedict Arnold |
Military |
14-Jan-1741 |
14-Jun-1801 |
Betrayed colonists to British |
Ove Arup |
Engineer |
16-Apr-1895 |
5-Feb-1988 |
Danish civil engineer |
Sholem Asch |
Author |
1-Nov-1880 |
1-Aug-1957 |
Yiddish novelist |
Roger Ascham |
Scholar |
1515 |
30-Dec-1568 |
The Scholemaster |
Peggy Ashcroft |
Actor |
22-Dec-1907 |
14-Jun-1991 |
A Passage to India |
Renée Asherson |
Actor |
19-May-1915 |
30-Oct-2014 |
Malta Story |
Arthur Askey |
Comic |
6-Jun-1900 |
16-Nov-1982 |
Horn-rimmed British comic |
Anthony Asquith |
Film Director |
9-Nov-1902 |
20-Feb-1968 |
Pygmalion |
Margot Asquith |
Socialite |
2-Feb-1864 |
28-Jul-1945 |
Wife of Herbert Henry Asquith |
Richard Attenborough |
Film Director |
29-Aug-1923 |
24-Aug-2014 |
Gandhi |
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 |
Charles Babbage |
Mathematician |
26-Dec-1791 |
18-Oct-1871 |
Inventor of the Difference Engine |
Anthony Babington |
Criminal |
24-Oct-1561 |
20-Sep-1586 |
Plotted to overthrow Elizabeth I |
Francis Bacon |
Philosopher |
22-Jan-1561 |
9-Apr-1626 |
Novum Organum |
Angela Baddeley |
Actor |
4-Jul-1904 |
22-Feb-1976 |
Upstairs, Downstairs |
Leo Baeck |
Religion |
23-May-1873 |
2-Nov-1956 |
Progressive Jewish Rabbi |
Enid Bagnold |
Novelist |
27-Oct-1889 |
31-Mar-1981 |
National Velvet |
Joanna Baillie |
Playwright |
11-Sep-1762 |
23-Feb-1851 |
Family Legend |
Francis Baily |
Astronomer |
28-Apr-1774 |
30-Aug-1844 |
First to observe Baily's Beads |
Beryl Bainbridge |
Novelist |
21-Nov-1934 |
2-Jul-2010 |
Master Georgie |
Sir Richard Baker |
Historian |
c. 1568 |
18-Feb-1645 |
Chronicle of the Kings of England |
Roy Ward Baker |
Film Director |
19-Dec-1916 |
5-Oct-2010 |
A Night to Remember |
John Ball |
Naturalist |
20-Aug-1818 |
21-Oct-1889 |
Irish Alpinist |
Sir Joseph Banks |
Botanist |
13-Feb-1743 |
19-Jun-1820 |
Accompanied James Cook |
Leslie Banks |
Actor |
9-Jun-1890 |
21-Apr-1952 |
The Most Dangerous Game |
Peter Banks |
Guitarist |
15-Jul-1947 |
8-Mar-2013 |
Original guitarist for Yes |
John Barbirolli |
Conductor |
2-Dec-1899 |
29-Jul-1970 |
Conductor at The Hallé, 1943-70 |
Ronnie Barker |
Comic |
25-Sep-1929 |
3-Oct-2005 |
The Two Ronnies |
Robert Barnes |
Religion |
1495 |
30-Jul-1540 |
English reformer and martyr |
J. M. Barrie |
Author |
9-May-1860 |
19-Jun-1937 |
Peter Pan |
Eva Bartok |
Actor |
18-Jun-1927 |
1-Aug-1998 |
The Crimson Pirate |
Alfie Bass |
Actor |
8-Apr-1921 |
15-Jul-1987 |
Bootsie and Snudge |
Alan Bates |
Actor |
17-Feb-1934 |
27-Dec-2003 |
Basil in Zorba the Greek |
William Bateson |
Biologist |
8-Aug-1861 |
8-Feb-1926 |
Founder of genetics |
Nina Bawden |
Novelist |
19-Jan-1925 |
22-Aug-2012 |
Carrie's War |
William Bayliss |
Doctor |
2-May-1860 |
27-Aug-1924 |
Co-Discovered hormones |
Jeremy Beadle |
TV Personality |
12-Apr-1948 |
30-Jan-2008 |
You've Been Framed |
A. C. F. Beales |
Historian |
1905 |
16-Aug-1974 |
The History of Peace |
Robert Beatty |
Actor |
19-Oct-1909 |
3-Mar-1992 |
2001: A Space Odyssey |
Francis Beaumont |
Playwright |
1584 |
6-Mar-1616 |
Collaborator with John Fletcher |
Sybille Bedford |
Novelist |
16-Mar-1911 |
17-Feb-2006 |
A Favourite of the Gods |
Thomas Beecham |
Conductor |
29-Apr-1879 |
8-Mar-1961 |
Founder, London and Royal Philharmonics |
Aphra Behn |
Playwright |
10-Jul-1640 |
16-Apr-1689 |
Oroonoko, the History of the Royal Slave |
Max Beloff |
Historian |
2-Jul-1913 |
22-Mar-1999 |
Founder, University of Buckingham |
Tony Benn |
Politician |
3-Apr-1925 |
14-Mar-2014 |
Radical left Labour MP |
Arnold Bennett |
Novelist |
27-May-1867 |
27-Mar-1931 |
Five Towns novels |
Jill Bennett |
Actor |
24-Dec-1931 |
4-Oct-1990 |
The Sheltering Sky |
Jeremy Bentham |
Philosopher |
15-Feb-1748 |
6-Jun-1832 |
Proponent of Utilitarianism |
Boris Berezovsky |
Business |
23-Jan-1946 |
23-Mar-2013 |
Russian oligarch, Putin critic |
Ingrid Bergman |
Actor |
29-Aug-1915 |
29-Aug-1982 |
Murder on the Orient Express |
Elisabeth Bergner |
Actor |
22-Aug-1897 |
12-May-1986 |
Escape Me Never |
Lennox Berkeley |
Composer |
12-May-1903 |
26-Dec-1989 |
Stabat Mater |
J. D. Bernal |
Physicist |
10-May-1901 |
15-Sep-1971 |
X-ray crystallography |
Henry Bessemer |
Inventor |
19-Jan-1813 |
15-Mar-1898 |
Bessemer process to manufacture steel |
George Best |
Soccer |
22-May-1946 |
25-Nov-2005 |
Manchester United |
Ernest Bevin |
Politician |
9-Mar-1881 |
14-Apr-1951 |
UK Foreign Secretary, 1945-51 |
John Biddle |
Religion |
1615 |
22-Sep-1662 |
Father of English Unitarianism |
Ronnie Biggs |
Criminal |
8-Aug-1929 |
18-Dec-2013 |
UK Great Train Robber |
Thomas Bilney |
Religion |
c. 1495 |
19-Aug-1531 |
English martyr, influenced Latimer |
Ed Bishop |
Actor |
11-Jun-1932 |
8-Jun-2005 |
Cmdr. Straker on UFO |
Patrick M. S. Blackett |
Physicist |
18-Nov-1897 |
13-Jul-1974 |
Cosmic radiation, continental drift |
Betsy Blair |
Actor |
11-Dec-1923 |
13-Mar-2009 |
Marty |
William Blake |
Poet |
28-Nov-1757 |
12-Aug-1827 |
English romantic poet and artist |
Colin Blakely |
Actor |
23-Sep-1930 |
7-May-1987 |
The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes |
H. P. Blavatsky |
Author |
12-Aug-1831 |
8-May-1891 |
Founded Theosophy; The Secret Doctrine |
William Bligh |
Military |
9-Sep-1754 |
6-Dec-1817 |
Captain of the Bounty |
Arthur Bliss |
Composer |
2-Aug-1891 |
28-Mar-1975 |
Morning Heroes |
John Blow |
Composer |
23-Feb-1649 |
1-Oct-1708 |
Venus and Adonis |
Anthony Blunt |
Art 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 |
David Bohm |
Physicist |
20-Dec-1917 |
29-Oct-1992 |
Particle physicist |
Marc Bolan |
Singer/Songwriter |
30-Sep-1947 |
16-Sep-1977 |
T-Rex |
Anne Boleyn |
Royalty |
c. 1507 |
19-May-1536 |
Wife of English King Henry VIII |
Edmund Bolton |
Historian |
c. 1575 |
c. 1633 |
Hypercritica |
Derek Bond |
Actor |
26-Jan-1919 |
15-Oct-2006 |
The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby |
Gary Bond |
Actor |
7-Feb-1940 |
12-Oct-1995 |
English theatre actor |
Graham Bond |
Musician |
28-Oct-1937 |
8-May-1974 |
Influential blues keyboardist |
James Boswell |
Author |
29-Oct-1740 |
19-May-1795 |
The Life of Samuel Johnson |
Kenneth Bourne |
Historian |
17-Mar-1930 |
13-Dec-1992 |
Britain and the Balance of Power |
William Boyce |
Composer |
7-Feb-1710 |
7-Feb-1779 |
Cathedral Music |
Robert Boyle |
Chemist |
25-Jan-1627 |
30-Dec-1691 |
Pioneer of modern chemistry |
Anne Bracegirdle |
Actor |
1663 |
1748 |
Actress in Congreve's plays |
Charles Bradlaugh |
Activist |
26-Sep-1833 |
30-Jan-1891 |
Atheistic Iconoclast |
John Bradshaw |
Government |
1602 |
31-Oct-1659 |
Tried King Charles I |
William Bragg |
Physicist |
2-Jul-1862 |
12-Mar-1942 |
Analyzed crystal structures |
John Braine |
Novelist |
13-Apr-1922 |
28-Oct-1986 |
Room at the Top |
Joseph Bramah |
Inventor |
13-Apr-1748 |
9-Dec-1814 |
Inventor of the hydraulic press |
John Brand |
Historian |
19-Aug-1744 |
11-Sep-1806 |
Observations on Popular Antiquities |
George Brayton |
Inventor |
3-Oct-1830 |
17-Dec-1892 |
Brayton cycle engine |
Jeremy Brett |
Actor |
3-Nov-1933 |
12-Sep-1995 |
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes |
Richard Briers |
Actor |
14-Jan-1934 |
17-Feb-2013 |
Tom Good on The Good Life |
Harry Brittain |
Journalist |
24-Dec-1873 |
9-Jul-1974 |
Co-Founder of the Pilgrims Society |
Leon Brittan |
Politician |
25-Sep-1939 |
21-Jan-2015 |
UK Home Secretary, 1983-85 |
J. Edward Bromberg |
Actor |
25-Dec-1903 |
6-Dec-1951 |
The Mark of Zorro |
Clive Brook |
Actor |
1-Jun-1887 |
17-Nov-1974 |
Shanghai Express |
Lyndon Brook |
Actor |
10-Apr-1926 |
9-Jan-2004 |
Reach for the Sky |
Anita Brookner |
Novelist |
16-Jul-1928 |
10-Mar-2016 |
Hotel Du Lac |
Capability Brown |
Landscape Architect |
1716 |
6-Feb-1783 |
Britain's finest designer of gardens |
Ford Madox Brown |
Painter |
16-Apr-1821 |
6-Oct-1893 |
English historical painter |
Georgia Brown |
Actor |
21-Oct-1933 |
5-Jul-1992 |
The Raging Moon |
Robert Brown |
Botanist |
21-Dec-1773 |
10-Jun-1858 |
Brownian motion |
Stanley Bruce |
Head of State |
15-Apr-1883 |
25-Aug-1967 |
Prime Minister of Australia, 1923-29 |
Isambard Kingdom Brunel |
Engineer |
9-Apr-1806 |
15-Sep-1859 |
Chief engineer of the Great Western Railway |
Jack Buchanan |
Actor |
2-Apr-1891 |
20-Oct-1957 |
The Band Wagon |
William Buckland |
Geologist |
12-Mar-1784 |
15-Aug-1856 |
Reliquiae Diluvianae |
John Bunyan |
Author |
Nov-1628 |
31-Aug-1688 |
Pilgrim's Progress |
Hugh Burden |
Actor |
3-Apr-1913 |
17-May-1985 |
Funeral in Berlin |
Angela Georgina Burdett-Coutts |
Philanthropist |
21-Apr-1814 |
30-Dec-1906 |
Victorian philanthropist |
Anthony Burgess |
Novelist |
25-Feb-1917 |
25-Nov-1993 |
A Clockwork Orange |
Thomas Burke |
Author |
29-Nov-1886 |
22-Sep-1945 |
Limehouse Nights |
Charles Burney |
Musicologist |
7-Apr-1726 |
12-Apr-1814 |
History of Music |
Fanny Burney |
Novelist |
13-Jun-1752 |
6-Jan-1840 |
Camilla |
Pete Burns |
Singer/Songwriter |
5-Aug-1959 |
23-Oct-2016 |
Dead or Alive |
Fritz Busch |
Conductor |
13-Mar-1890 |
14-Sep-1951 |
Conductor, Danish National Symphony, 1934-51 |
George Busk |
Doctor |
12-Aug-1807 |
10-Aug-1886 |
British surgeon and zoologist |
Frances Buss |
Educator |
16-Aug-1827 |
24-Dec-1894 |
Girls' school reformer |
John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute |
Head of State |
25-May-1713 |
10-Mar-1792 |
UK Prime Minister, 1762-63 |
Samuel Butler |
Author |
4-Dec-1835 |
18-Jun-1902 |
Erewheon |
Samuel Butler |
Poet |
8-Feb-1612 |
25-Feb-1680 |
Hudibras |
John Caius |
Doctor |
6-Oct-1510 |
29-Jul-1573 |
Second founder of Gonville and Caius College |
Guy Stewart Callendar |
Scientist |
9-Feb-1898 |
3-Oct-1964 |
Callendar Effect |
Phyllis Calvert |
Actor |
18-Feb-1915 |
8-Oct-2002 |
Madonna of the Seven Moons |
William Camden |
Scholar |
2-May-1551 |
9-Nov-1623 |
Britannia |
Beatrice Campbell |
Actor |
31-Jul-1922 |
10-May-1979 |
Last Holiday |
Henry Campbell-Bannerman |
Head of State |
7-Sep-1836 |
22-Apr-1908 |
UK Prime Minister, 1905-08 |
Edmund Campion |
Religion |
24-Jan-1540 |
1-Dec-1581 |
Jesuit martyr, hanged at Tyburn |
Thomas Campion |
Composer |
12-Feb-1567 |
1-Mar-1620 |
English musical poet, Bookes of Ayres |
Charles John Canning |
Government |
14-Dec-1812 |
17-Jun-1862 |
Governor-General of India |
Jim Capaldi |
Drummer |
24-Apr-1944 |
28-Jan-2005 |
Drummer/Songwriter for Traffic |
Thomas Carew |
Poet |
1595 |
22-Mar-1639 |
A Rapture |
Thomas Carlyle |
Historian |
4-Dec-1795 |
5-Feb-1881 |
The French Revolution |
Anthony Caro |
Sculptor |
8-Mar-1924 |
23-Oct-2013 |
Twenty Four Hours |
John Paddy Carstairs |
Film Director |
11-May-1910 |
12-Dec-1970 |
The Saint in London |
Richard D'Oyly Carte |
Impresario |
3-May-1844 |
3-Apr-1901 |
English opera and theatre impresario |
Angela Carter |
Author |
7-May-1940 |
16-Feb-1992 |
Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman |
Howard Carter |
Archaeologist |
9-May-1874 |
2-Mar-1939 |
Uncovered Tutankhamun's Tomb |
Barbara Cartland |
Author |
9-Jul-1901 |
21-May-2000 |
Wrote way too many romance novels |
Katrin Cartlidge |
Actor |
15-May-1961 |
7-Sep-2002 |
Claire Dolan |
Isaac Casaubon |
Scholar |
18-Feb-1559 |
1-Jul-1614 |
Leading classical scholar |
Roger Casement |
Activist |
1-Sep-1864 |
3-Aug-1916 |
Irish revolutionary, gay diarist |
William Caslon |
Typographer |
1692 |
23-Jan-1766 |
English type designer |
Mama Cass |
Singer |
19-Sep-1941 |
29-Jul-1974 |
The Mamas and the Papas |
John Cassell |
Publisher |
23-Jan-1817 |
2-Apr-1865 |
Cassell's Magazine |
Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh |
Politician |
18-Jun-1769 |
12-Aug-1822 |
Architected Napoleon's defeat |
Catherine of Valois |
Royalty |
27-Oct-1401 |
3-Jan-1437 |
Consort of Henry V of England |
Paul Cavanagh |
Actor |
8-Dec-1888 |
15-Mar-1964 |
The Scarlet Claw |
William Caxton |
Publisher |
1422 |
1491 |
First printer in England |
Christopher Cazenove |
Actor |
17-Dec-1945 |
7-Apr-2010 |
English character actor |
William Cecil |
Government |
13-Sep-1520 |
5-Aug-1598 |
Closest advisor to Elizabeth I |
David Cesarani |
Historian |
13-Nov-1956 |
25-Oct-2015 |
Eichmann: His Life and Crimes |
Austen Chamberlain |
Politician |
16-Oct-1863 |
16-Mar-1937 |
British pol, Nobel Prize recipient |
Joseph Chamberlain |
Politician |
8-Jul-1836 |
3-Jul-1914 |
British pol revered in Birmingham |
Ephraim Chambers |
Encyclopaedist |
c. 1680 |
15-May-1740 |
Chambers Cyclopaedia |
Sir William Chambers |
Architect |
1723 |
8-Mar-1796 |
Treatise of Civil Architecture |
Ian Charleson |
Actor |
11-Aug-1949 |
6-Jan-1990 |
Chariots of Fire |
Thomas Chatterton |
Poet |
20-Nov-1752 |
24-Aug-1770 |
Fabricated as Thomas Rowley |
Geoffrey Chaucer |
Author |
c. 1343 |
25-Oct-1400 |
Canterbury Tales |
Lord Randolph Churchill |
Politician |
13-Feb-1849 |
24-Jan-1895 |
Father of Winston Churchill |
Winston Churchill |
Head of State |
30-Nov-1874 |
24-Jan-1965 |
WWII Prime Minister of England |
Winston S. Churchill |
Politician |
10-Oct-1940 |
2-Mar-2010 |
British MP, Manchester, 1970-97 |
Colley Cibber |
Playwright |
6-Nov-1671 |
11-Dec-1757 |
Apology |
Colin Clark |
Film/TV Producer |
9-Oct-1932 |
17-Dec-2002 |
My Week with Marilyn |
Alan Clarke |
Film Director |
28-Oct-1935 |
24-Jul-1990 |
Scum |
John Cleland |
Novelist |
24-Sep-1709 |
23-Jan-1789 |
Fanny Hill |
Robert Clive |
Military |
29-Sep-1725 |
22-Nov-1774 |
Conquered India for Britain |
Alec Clunes |
Actor |
17-May-1912 |
13-Mar-1970 |
Classical theatre actor, stage manager |
Thomas Cochrane |
Military |
14-Dec-1775 |
31-Oct-1860 |
Rear Admiral, invented the smoke screen |
Alma Cogan |
Singer |
19-May-1932 |
26-Oct-1966 |
The Girl With the Giggle In Her Voice |
George Douglas Howard Cole |
Economist |
25-Sep-1889 |
14-Jan-1959 |
British Labour theorist |
Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
Poet |
21-Oct-1772 |
25-Jul-1834 |
Rime of the Ancient Mariner |
Anthony Collins |
Philosopher |
21-Jun-1676 |
13-Dec-1729 |
A Discourse on Freethinking |
Ivy Compton-Burnett |
Novelist |
5-Jun-1884 |
27-Aug-1969 |
Pastors and Masters |
William Congreve |
Playwright |
24-Jan-1670 |
19-Jan-1729 |
The Way of the World |
Cyril Connolly |
Critic |
10-Sep-1903 |
26-Nov-1974 |
Enemies of Promise |
John Constable |
Painter |
11-Jun-1776 |
31-Mar-1837 |
English landscape painter |
Pat Coombs |
Actor |
27-Aug-1926 |
25-May-2002 |
British character actress |
John Singleton Copley |
Painter |
3-Jul-1738 |
9-Sep-1815 |
Boy with a Squirrel |
Ronnie Corbett |
Comic |
4-Dec-1930 |
31-Mar-2016 |
The Two Ronnies |
Adrienne Corri |
Actor |
13-Nov-1931 |
13-Mar-2016 |
A Clockwork Orange |
Charles Cotton |
Poet |
28-Apr-1630 |
16-Feb-1687 |
Translator of Montaigne |
Henry Cotton |
Golf |
26-Jan-1907 |
22-Dec-1987 |
Won the British Open three times |
Robert Cotton |
Scholar |
22-Jan-1571 |
6-May-1631 |
Cottonian Library |
George Coulouris |
Actor |
1-Oct-1903 |
25-Apr-1989 |
Watch on the Rhine |
Cicely Courtneidge |
Actor |
1-Apr-1893 |
26-Apr-1980 |
The Ghost Train |
Vincent Crane |
Musician |
21-May-1943 |
14-Feb-1989 |
Atomic Rooster and Arthur Brown keyboardist |
Walter Crane |
Artist |
15-Aug-1845 |
17-Mar-1915 |
British children's illustrator |
Charles Crichton |
Film Director |
6-Aug-1910 |
15-Sep-1999 |
A Fish Called Wanda |
Henry Page Croft |
Politician |
22-Jun-1881 |
7-Dec-1947 |
British Under-Secretary of War, 1940-45 |
Oliver Cromwell |
Government |
25-Apr-1599 |
3-Sep-1658 |
Lord Protector of England 1653-58 |
Thomas Cromwell |
Government |
c. 1485 |
28-Jul-1540 |
Advisor to Henry VIII |
Sir William Crookes |
Chemist |
17-Jun-1832 |
4-Apr-1919 |
Discovered element Thallium |
Alexander Cruden |
Religion |
1699 |
1-Nov-1770 |
Concordance to the Bible |
George Cruikshank |
Artist |
27-Sep-1792 |
1-Feb-1878 |
English caricaturist |
Sir William Cubitt |
Engineer |
1785 |
13-Oct-1861 |
British civil engineer |
Sir Samuel Cunard |
Business |
21-Nov-1787 |
28-Apr-1865 |
Founder, Cunard Lines |
Edmund Curll |
Publisher |
1683 |
11-Dec-1747 |
Notorious London bookseller |
George Nathaniel Curzon |
Government |
11-Jan-1859 |
20-Mar-1925 |
Created the Kingdom of Jordan |
Cyril Cusack |
Actor |
26-Nov-1910 |
7-Oct-1993 |
Gone to Earth |
Ivor Cutler |
Poet |
15-Jan-1923 |
3-Mar-2006 |
Glasgow Dreamer |
Charlotte Dacre |
Novelist |
c. 1771 |
7-Nov-1825 |
Zofloya |
William Dampier |
Explorer |
1651 |
1715 |
New Voyage Round the World |
Thomas Dangerfield |
Criminal |
1650 |
1685 |
English conspirator |
Bebe Daniels |
Actor |
14-Jan-1901 |
16-Mar-1971 |
42nd Street |
George Darley |
Poet |
1795 |
23-Nov-1846 |
Nepenthe |
Sir William Davenant |
Poet |
1606 |
7-Apr-1668 |
Gondibert |
Clement Davies |
Politician |
19-Feb-1884 |
23-Mar-1962 |
Leader of the UK Liberal Party, 1945-56 |
Rupert Davies |
Actor |
22-May-1916 |
22-Nov-1976 |
Inspector Maigret |
Colin Davis |
Conductor |
25-Sep-1927 |
14-Apr-2013 |
Principal Conductor, LSO, 1995-2006 |
William Davison |
Government |
c. 1541 |
21-Dec-1608 |
Secretary to Queen Elizabeth I |
Henry de la Beche |
Geologist |
1796 |
13-Apr-1855 |
Created first Geologic Survey |
Augustus De Morgan |
Mathematician |
27-Jun-1806 |
18-Mar-1871 |
De Morgan's Laws |
John Dee |
Mathematician |
13-Jul-1527 |
26-Mar-1609 |
Mathematician and mystic |
Daniel Defoe |
Author |
Sep-1660 |
24-Apr-1731 |
Robinson Crusoe |
Desmond Dekker |
Singer/Songwriter |
16-Jul-1941 |
25-May-2006 |
Israelites |
Thomas Dekker |
Playwright |
c. 1572 |
c. 1632 |
The Gentle Craft |
Sir John Denham |
Poet |
1615 |
10-Mar-1669 |
Cooper's Hill |
John Dennis |
Critic |
1657 |
6-Jan-1734 |
The Usefulness of the Stage |
Sandy Denny |
Singer |
6-Jan-1947 |
21-Apr-1978 |
Fairport Convention |
James Dewar |
Physicist |
20-Sep-1842 |
27-Mar-1923 |
Researcher of low temperatures |
Charles Dibdin |
Songwriter |
4-Mar-1745 |
25-Jul-1814 |
The Comic Mirror |
Thomas Frognall Dibdin |
Author |
1776 |
18-Nov-1847 |
English bibliographer |
Thorold Dickinson |
Film Director |
16-Nov-1903 |
14-Apr-1984 |
Gaslight |
Everard Digby |
Criminal |
16-May-1578 |
30-Jan-1606 |
Gunpowder Plot |
Kenelm Digby |
Scientist |
11-Jul-1603 |
11-Jun-1665 |
Founding member of the Royal Society |
Benjamin Disraeli |
Head of State |
21-Dec-1804 |
19-Apr-1881 |
UK Prime Minister, 1874-80 |
E. C. Dodds |
Scientist |
13-Oct-1899 |
16-Dec-1973 |
Diethylstilbestrol |
John Dollond |
Physicist |
10-Jun-1706 |
30-Nov-1761 |
Invented achromatic lenses |
Robert Donat |
Actor |
18-Mar-1905 |
9-Jun-1958 |
Goodbye, Mr. Chips |
John Donne |
Poet |
1572 |
31-Mar-1631 |
Anniversaries |
Clive Donner |
Film Director |
21-Jan-1926 |
7-Sep-2010 |
What's New, Pussycat |
George Douglas |
Novelist |
26-Jan-1869 |
28-Aug-1902 |
The House With the Green Shutters |
John Dowland |
Composer |
c. 1562 |
21-Jan-1626 |
Lachrimae, Lutenist |
Ernest Dowson |
Poet |
2-Aug-1867 |
23-Feb-1900 |
English Decadent poet |
Betsy Drake |
Actor |
11-Sep-1923 |
27-Oct-2015 |
Every Girl Should Be Married |
Michael Drayton |
Poet |
1563 |
23-Dec-1631 |
Poly-Olbion |
John Dryden |
Poet |
19-Aug-1631 |
1-May-1700 |
Absalom and Achitophel |
Jacqueline du Pré |
Cellist |
26-Jan-1945 |
19-Oct-1987 |
Cellist |
Michael Dunn |
Actor |
20-Oct-1934 |
30-Aug-1973 |
Dr. Miguelito Loveless |
June Duprez |
Actor |
14-May-1918 |
30-Oct-1984 |
The Thief of Bagdad |
Ronald Dworkin |
Philosopher |
11-Dec-1931 |
14-Feb-2013 |
Taking Rights Seriously |
Paul Eddington |
Actor |
18-Jun-1927 |
4-Nov-1995 |
Jim Hacker on Yes, Prime Minister |
Edward the Confessor |
Royalty |
c. 1004 |
4-Jan-1066 |
King of England, 1042-66 |
King Edward VII |
Royalty |
9-Nov-1841 |
6-May-1910 |
King of England, 1901-1910 |
George Eliot |
Novelist |
22-Nov-1819 |
22-Dec-1880 |
Silas Marner |
T. S. Eliot |
Poet |
26-Sep-1888 |
4-Jan-1965 |
Author of "The Waste Land" |
Ruth Ellis |
Criminal |
9-Oct-1925 |
13-Jul-1955 |
Last woman hanged in England |
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 |
Friedrich Engels |
Economist |
28-Nov-1820 |
5-Aug-1895 |
Communist Manifesto |
Arthur English |
Actor |
9-May-1919 |
16-Apr-1995 |
Mr. Harman on Are You Being Served? |
Brian Epstein |
Business |
19-Sep-1934 |
27-Aug-1967 |
Manager of The Beatles |
Jacob Epstein |
Sculptor |
10-Nov-1880 |
21-Aug-1959 |
Strand Statues |
Jill Esmond |
Actor |
26-Jan-1908 |
28-Jul-1990 |
The Skin Game |
King Ethelred II |
Royalty |
c. 968 AD |
23-Apr-1016 |
King of England 978-1013 & 1014-16 |
Hans Eysenck |
Psychologist |
4-Mar-1916 |
4-Sep-1997 |
Intelligence and personality |
George Farquhar |
Playwright |
1678 |
29-Apr-1707 |
The Beaux Stratagem |
Derek Farr |
Actor |
7-Feb-1912 |
22-Mar-1986 |
The Projected Man |
Marjorie Fielding |
Actor |
17-Feb-1892 |
28-Dec-1956 |
English stage actress |
George Finch |
Chemist |
4-Aug-1888 |
22-Nov-1970 |
Oxygen for mountain climbing |
Sir Raymond Firth |
Anthropologist |
25-Mar-1901 |
22-Feb-2002 |
Economic Anthropology |
Andrew Fisher |
Head of State |
29-Aug-1862 |
22-Oct-1928 |
Former Prime Minister of Australia |
John Fisher |
Religion |
19-Oct-1469 |
22-Jun-1535 |
Saint John Fisher, executed by Henry VIII |
Terence Fisher |
Film Director |
23-Feb-1904 |
18-Jun-1980 |
Dracula, Prince of Darkness |
John Flamsteed |
Astronomer |
19-Aug-1646 |
31-Dec-1719 |
Founder of Greenwich Observatory |
Alexander Fleming |
Scientist |
6-Aug-1881 |
11-Mar-1955 |
Discovered penicillin |
John Fletcher |
Playwright |
1579 |
29-Aug-1625 |
Collaborator with Francis Beaumont |
Robert Fludd |
Scientist |
1574 |
8-Sep-1637 |
Cosmologist and hermetic philosopher |
John Forster |
Author |
2-Apr-1812 |
2-Feb-1876 |
Life of Charles Dickens |
William Edward Forster |
Politician |
11-Jul-1818 |
5-Apr-1886 |
Chief Secretary for Ireland, 1880-82 |
Ugo Foscolo |
Playwright |
6-Feb-1778 |
10-Sep-1827 |
The Last Letters of Jacopo Ortis |
Harry Fowler |
Actor |
10-Dec-1926 |
4-Jan-2012 |
Cpl. Hoskins on The Army Game |
Charles James Fox |
Politician |
24-Jan-1749 |
13-Sep-1806 |
U.K.'s first Foreign Secretary |
Henry Richard Vassall Fox |
Politician |
21-Nov-1773 |
22-Oct-1840 |
3rd Baron Holland |
John Foxe |
Religion |
1516 |
18-Apr-1587 |
Foxe's Book of Martyrs |
Rosalind Franklin |
Chemist |
25-Jul-1920 |
16-Apr-1958 |
Photographed DNA's structure |
Mad Frankie Fraser |
Criminal |
13-Dec-1923 |
26-Nov-2014 |
Notorious British bank robber |
John Freind |
Doctor |
1675 |
26-Jul-1728 |
The History of Physic |
Anna Freud |
Relative |
3-Dec-1895 |
9-Oct-1982 |
Daughter of Sigmund Freud |
Sigmund Freud |
Psychiatrist |
6-May-1856 |
23-Sep-1939 |
Die Traumdeutung |
Billy Fury |
Musician |
17-Apr-1941 |
28-Jan-1983 |
The Sound of Fury |
Dennis Gabor |
Physicist |
5-Jun-1900 |
8-Feb-1979 |
Inventor of holography |
Slim Gaillard |
Jazz Musician |
4-Jan-1916 |
26-Feb-1991 |
Cee-ment mixer, put-ti put-ti |
Thomas Gainsborough |
Painter |
14-May-1727 |
2-Aug-1788 |
Portrait and landscape painter |
Hugh Gaitskell |
Politician |
9-Apr-1906 |
18-Jan-1963 |
Leader of the Labour Party, 1955-63 |
Rory Gallagher |
Guitarist |
2-Mar-1948 |
14-Jun-1995 |
Irish blues rock guitarist |
Stephen Gardiner |
Religion |
c. 1493 |
12-Nov-1555 |
English bishop, statesman |
Ava Gardner |
Actor |
24-Dec-1922 |
25-Jan-1990 |
The Barefoot Contessa |
Judy Garland |
Singer |
10-Jun-1922 |
22-Jun-1969 |
Dorothy in Wizard of Oz |
Edward Garnett |
Editor |
5-Jan-1868 |
19-Feb-1937 |
English critic and editor |
David Garrick |
Actor |
19-Feb-1717 |
20-Jan-1779 |
Manager of Drury Lane Theatre |
John Gay |
Poet |
30-Jun-1685 |
4-Dec-1732 |
The Beggar's Opera |
Martha Gellhorn |
Journalist |
8-Nov-1908 |
15-Feb-1998 |
War correspondent |
Leo Genn |
Actor |
9-Aug-1905 |
26-Jan-1978 |
Quo Vadis |
Orazio Gentileschi |
Painter |
1562 |
c. 1639 |
Italian Baroque painter |
Alberico Gentili |
Legal Scholar |
14-Jan-1552 |
19-Jun-1608 |
Scholar of international law |
King George II |
Royalty |
10-Nov-1683 |
25-Oct-1760 |
King of Britain, 1727-60 |
David Gest |
Film/TV Producer |
11-May-1953 |
12-Apr-2016 |
Ex-Husband of Liza Minnelli |
J. Paul Getty, Jr. |
Business |
7-Sep-1932 |
17-Apr-2003 |
Heir to the Getty Oil fortune |
J. Paul Getty, Sr. |
Business |
15-Dec-1892 |
6-Jun-1976 |
Founder of Getty Oil Company |
Robin Gibb |
Singer |
22-Dec-1949 |
20-May-2012 |
Vocalist for the Bee Gees |
Edward Gibbon |
Historian |
8-May-1737 |
16-Jan-1794 |
Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire |
Grinling Gibbons |
Sculptor |
4-Apr-1648 |
3-Aug-1721 |
English wood carver |
Martin Gilbert |
Historian |
25-Oct-1936 |
3-Feb-2015 |
Winston S. Churchill |
William Gilbert |
Physicist |
24-May-1544 |
10-Dec-1603 |
De Magnete |
James Gillray |
Artist |
13-Aug-1756 |
1-Jun-1815 |
English caricaturist |
Ian Gilmour |
Politician |
8-Jul-1926 |
21-Sep-2007 |
Baron Gilmour of Craigmillar |
Brian Glover |
Actor |
2-Apr-1934 |
24-Jul-1997 |
Lugg on Campion |
Willoughby Goddard |
Actor |
4-Jul-1926 |
11-Apr-2008 |
Gessler on William Tell |
William Godwin |
Philosopher |
3-Mar-1756 |
30-Apr-1836 |
An Enquiry Concerning Political Justice |
John Golding |
Critic |
10-Sep-1929 |
9-Apr-2012 |
Cubism: A History and an Analysis |
Oliver Goldsmith |
Author |
10-Nov-1730 |
4-Apr-1774 |
The Vicar of Wakefield |
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 |
George Peabody Gooch |
Historian |
21-Oct-1873 |
31-Aug-1968 |
English Democratic Ideas in the 17th Century |
Michael Goodliffe |
Actor |
1-Oct-1914 |
20-Mar-1976 |
A Night to Remember |
William C. Gorgas |
Doctor |
3-Oct-1854 |
3-Jul-1920 |
Malaria and yellow fever |
Walter Gotell |
Actor |
15-Mar-1924 |
5-May-1997 |
Gen. Gogol in James Bond films |
Alan Gowen |
Jazz Musician |
19-Aug-1947 |
17-May-1981 |
Jazz-rock keyboardist |
Lawrence Gowing |
Art Historian |
21-Apr-1918 |
5-Feb-1991 |
Biographer of Vermeer |
Margot Grahame |
Actor |
20-Feb-1911 |
1-Jan-1982 |
The Informer |
Henry Grattan |
Politician |
3-Jul-1746 |
6-Jun-1820 |
Legislative independence for Ireland |
Charles Gray |
Actor |
29-Aug-1928 |
7-Mar-2000 |
Ernst Stavro Blofeld |
William H. Gray |
Politician |
20-Aug-1941 |
1-Jul-2013 |
Congressman from Pennsylvania, 1979-91 |
Henry Green |
Novelist |
29-Oct-1905 |
13-Dec-1973 |
Loving |
Kate Greenaway |
Artist |
17-Mar-1846 |
6-Nov-1901 |
British illustrator |
Robert Greene |
Playwright |
Jul-1558 |
3-Sep-1592 |
Friar Bacon |
Joan Greenwood |
Actor |
4-Mar-1921 |
27-Feb-1987 |
The Importance of Being Earnest |
George Grenville |
Politician |
14-Oct-1712 |
13-Nov-1770 |
UK Prime Minister, 1763-65 |
J. A. S. Grenville |
Historian |
11-Jan-1928 |
7-Mar-2011 |
Lord Salisbury and Foreign Policy |
Sir Thomas Gresham |
Business |
1518 |
21-Nov-1579 |
Founder of Gresham College |
Nehemiah Grew |
Botanist |
26-Sep-1641 |
25-Mar-1712 |
Anatomy of Plants |
Lady Jane Grey |
Royalty |
12-Oct-1537 |
12-Feb-1554 |
Queen of England for nine days |
Frederick Griffith |
Biologist |
c. 1877 |
16-Apr-1941 |
Discovered the transforming principle |
Hugh Griffith |
Actor |
30-May-1912 |
14-May-1980 |
Sheik Ilderim in Ben-Hur |
Joseph Grimaldi |
Performance Artist |
18-Dec-1778 |
31-May-1837 |
Celebrated English clown |
Stephen Groombridge |
Astronomer |
7-Jan-1755 |
30-Mar-1832 |
A Catalogue of Circumpolar Stars |
Ivor Gurney |
Poet |
28-Aug-1890 |
26-Dec-1937 |
War's Embers |
Greta Gynt |
Actor |
15-Nov-1916 |
2-Apr-2000 |
The Dark Eyes of London |
H. Rider Haggard |
Novelist |
22-Jun-1856 |
14-May-1925 |
King Solomon's Mines |
Douglas Haig |
Military |
19-Jun-1861 |
29-Jan-1928 |
British Field Marshall in WWI |
Richard Hakluyt |
Author |
c. 1552 |
23-Nov-1616 |
Voiages and Discoveries of the English nation |
Henry Hallam |
Historian |
9-Jul-1777 |
21-Jan-1859 |
View of the Middle Ages |
Edmund Halley |
Astronomer |
8-Nov-1656 |
14-Jan-1742 |
Predicted return of Halley's Comet |
Robert Hamer |
Film Director |
31-Mar-1911 |
4-Dec-1963 |
Kind Hearts and Coronets |
George Frideric Handel |
Composer |
23-Feb-1685 |
14-Apr-1759 |
Messiah |
Irene Handl |
Actor |
27-Dec-1901 |
29-Nov-1987 |
Matronly British character actor |
Mary Hansen |
Musician |
1-Nov-1966 |
9-Dec-2002 |
Stereolab multi-instrumentalist |
Joseph Aloysius Hansom |
Architect |
26-Oct-1803 |
29-Jun-1882 |
Invented the Hansom Cab |
Malcolm Hardee |
Comic |
5-Jan-1950 |
31-Jan-2005 |
I Stole Freddie Mercury's Birthday Cake |
James Harrington |
Philosopher |
7-Jan-1611 |
11-Sep-1677 |
Oceana |
Richard Harris |
Actor |
1-Oct-1930 |
25-Oct-2002 |
English Bob in Unforgiven |
John Harrison |
Inventor |
Mar-1693 |
24-Mar-1776 |
Inventor of a marine clock |
Ray Harryhausen |
Artist |
29-Jun-1920 |
7-May-2013 |
Stop-motion genius |
Josephine Hart |
Author |
1-Mar-1942 |
2-Jun-2011 |
Damage |
Bret Harte |
Author |
25-Aug-1836 |
5-May-1902 |
Master of the western short story |
L. P. Hartley |
Novelist |
30-Dec-1895 |
13-Dec-1972 |
The Boat |
Laurence Harvey |
Actor |
1-Oct-1928 |
25-Nov-1973 |
Manchurian Candidate |
William Harvey |
Doctor |
1-Apr-1578 |
3-Jun-1657 |
Discovered circulation of blood |
Sir Christopher Hatton |
Government |
1540 |
1591 |
Lord Chancellor of England, 1587-91 |
Lord Haw-Haw |
Radio Personality |
24-Apr-1906 |
3-Jan-1946 |
WWII propagandist hanged in England |
John Hawkesworth |
Author |
c. 1715 |
16-Nov-1773 |
Voyages in the Southern Hemisphere |
Jack Hawkins |
Actor |
14-Sep-1910 |
18-Jul-1973 |
Land of the Pharaohs |
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 |
Nicholas Hawksmoor |
Architect |
c. 1661 |
25-Mar-1736 |
Worked with Wren and Vanbrugh |
Will Hay |
Actor |
6-Dec-1888 |
18-Apr-1949 |
Ask a Policeman |
Eliza Haywood |
Novelist |
c. 1693 |
25-Feb-1756 |
Secret Histories, Novels and Poems |
James Hazeldine |
Actor |
4-Apr-1947 |
17-Dec-2002 |
Mike "Bayleaf" Wilson on London's Burning |
William Hazlitt |
Essayist |
10-Apr-1778 |
18-Sep-1830 |
English literary critic, essayist |
Arthur Henderson |
Politician |
13-Sep-1863 |
20-Oct-1935 |
Disarmament proponent, Nobel Prize winner |
Jimi Hendrix |
Guitarist |
27-Nov-1942 |
18-Sep-1970 |
Purple Haze |
Ian Hendry |
Actor |
13-Jan-1931 |
24-Dec-1984 |
Get Carter |
King Henry III |
Royalty |
1-Oct-1207 |
16-Nov-1272 |
King of England, 1216-72 |
King Henry IV |
Royalty |
3-Apr-1367 |
20-Mar-1413 |
King of England, 1399-1413 |
Philip Henslowe |
Impresario |
c. 1550 |
6-Jan-1616 |
Elizabethan theatrical manager |
Herbert of Cherbury |
Philosopher |
3-Mar-1583 |
5-Aug-1648 |
De Veritate |
Myra Hess |
Pianist |
25-Feb-1890 |
26-Nov-1965 |
Held lunchtime concerts during WWII |
Gordon Hessler |
Film Director |
12-Dec-1930 |
19-Jan-2014 |
The Golden Voyage of Sinbad |
Thomas Heywood |
Playwright |
c. 1575 |
16-Aug-1641 |
A Woman kilde with kindnesse |
Douglas Hickox |
Film Director |
10-Jan-1929 |
25-Jul-1988 |
The Hound of the Baskervilles |
Aaron Hill |
Playwright |
10-Feb-1685 |
8-Feb-1750 |
The Progress of Wit |
Benny Hill |
Comic |
21-Jan-1924 |
19-Apr-1992 |
The Benny Hill Show |
James Hill |
Film Director |
1-Aug-1919 |
7-Oct-1994 |
Born Free |
Rowland Hill |
Inventor |
3-Dec-1795 |
27-Aug-1879 |
Invented the postage stamp |
Sir Cyril Hinshelwood |
Chemist |
19-Jun-1897 |
9-Oct-1967 |
The Kinetics of Chemical Change |
Benjamin Hoadly |
Religion |
14-Nov-1676 |
17-Apr-1761 |
Anglican Bishop and controversialist |
Eric Hobsbawm |
Historian |
9-Jun-1917 |
1-Oct-2012 |
The Age of Revolution |
Valerie Hobson |
Actor |
14-Apr-1917 |
13-Nov-1998 |
Kind Hearts and Coronets |
William Hogarth |
Engraver |
10-Nov-1697 |
26-Oct-1764 |
A Rake's Progress |
Hans Holbein the Younger |
Painter |
c. 1497 |
1543 |
Northern Renaissance portraitist |
Thomas Holcroft |
Playwright |
10-Dec-1745 |
23-Mar-1809 |
The Road to Ruin |
Wenzel Hollar |
Engraver |
13-Jul-1607 |
28-Mar-1677 |
Bohemian-English etcher |
Arthur Holmes |
Geologist |
14-Jan-1890 |
20-Sep-1965 |
Father of the geological timescale |
T. Rice Holmes |
Scholar |
24-May-1855 |
4-Aug-1933 |
Caesar's Conquest of Gaul |
Gustav Holst |
Composer |
21-Sep-1874 |
25-May-1934 |
The Planets |
Seth Holt |
Film Director |
1923 |
14-Feb-1971 |
The Nanny |
William Hone |
Author |
3-Jun-1780 |
6-Nov-1842 |
The Every-Day Book |
Samuel Hood |
Military |
12-Dec-1724 |
27-Jan-1816 |
British Admiral |
Thomas Hood |
Poet |
23-May-1799 |
3-May-1845 |
Odes and Addresses to Great People |
Robert Hooke |
Scientist |
18-Jul-1635 |
3-Mar-1703 |
Law of Elasticity, microscopist |
William Jackson Hooker |
Botanist |
6-Jul-1785 |
12-Aug-1865 |
British Jungermanniae |
Thomas Hope |
Designer |
30-Aug-1769 |
3-Feb-1830 |
Anastasius |
John Hoppner |
Painter |
4-Apr-1758 |
23-Jan-1810 |
English portrait painter |
Leonard Horner |
Geologist |
17-Jan-1785 |
5-Mar-1864 |
Scottish geologist, educator |
John Horrocks |
Business |
1768 |
1-Mar-1804 |
British cotton manufacturer |
John Callcott Horsley |
Painter |
29-Jan-1817 |
18-Oct-1903 |
Designed first Christmas card |
William Horsley |
Composer |
15-Nov-1774 |
12-Jun-1858 |
English composer of glees |
Bob Hoskins |
Actor |
26-Oct-1942 |
29-Apr-2014 |
Who Framed Roger Rabbit? |
William Hoste |
Military |
26-Aug-1780 |
6-Dec-1828 |
British naval captain |
Sir John Hotham |
Politician |
? |
3-Jan-1645 |
English parliamentarian |
Catherine Howard |
Royalty |
c. 1520 |
13-Feb-1542 |
Fifth wife of Henry VIII |
Ronald Howard |
Actor |
7-Apr-1918 |
19-Dec-1996 |
Sherlock Holmes |
John Howe |
Religion |
17-May-1630 |
2-Apr-1706 |
The Living Temple |
Frankie Howerd |
Actor |
6-Mar-1917 |
19-Apr-1992 |
Up Pompeii |
Edmond Hoyle |
Author |
1672 |
29-Aug-1769 |
According to Hoyle |
W. H. Hudson |
Author |
4-Aug-1841 |
18-Aug-1922 |
Green Mansions |
William Huggins |
Astronomer |
7-Feb-1824 |
12-May-1910 |
Spectrographic astronomy pioneer |
David Hughes |
Inventor |
16-May-1831 |
22-Jan-1900 |
Inventor of the microphone |
Basil Cardinal Hume |
Religion |
2-Mar-1923 |
17-Jun-1999 |
Archbishop of Westminster, 1976-99 |
Leigh Hunt |
Poet |
19-Oct-1784 |
28-Aug-1859 |
Story of Rimini |
Martita Hunt |
Actor |
30-Jan-1899 |
13-Jun-1969 |
Great Expectations |
William Holman Hunt |
Painter |
2-Apr-1827 |
7-Sep-1910 |
British Pre-Raphaelite painter |
Ian Hunter |
Actor |
13-Jun-1900 |
23-Sep-1975 |
The Adventures of Robin Hood |
John Hunter |
Doctor |
13-Feb-1728 |
16-Oct-1793 |
English pathologist |
William Hunter |
Doctor |
23-May-1718 |
30-Mar-1783 |
English anatomist and obstetrician |
Raymond Huntley |
Actor |
23-Apr-1904 |
19-Oct-1990 |
Passport to Pimlico |
John Hurt |
Actor |
22-Jan-1940 |
27-Jan-2017 |
Alien |
Julian Huxley |
Biologist |
22-Jun-1887 |
14-Feb-1975 |
Evolutionary biologist |
Peter Illing |
Actor |
4-Mar-1899 |
29-Oct-1966 |
Against the Wind |
Guillermo Cabrera Infante |
Novelist |
22-Apr-1929 |
21-Feb-2005 |
Tres Tristes Tigres |
John Inman |
Actor |
28-Jun-1935 |
8-Mar-2007 |
Are You Being Served? |
Sir James Ivory |
Mathematician |
17-Feb-1765 |
21-Sep-1842 |
Ivory's Theorem |
Gordon Jackson |
Actor |
19-Dec-1923 |
15-Jan-1990 |
Butler on Upstairs, Downstairs |
J. Hughlings Jackson |
Doctor |
4-Apr-1835 |
7-Oct-1911 |
Father of British neurology |
Alaric Jacob |
Journalist |
8-Jun-1909 |
26-Jan-1995 |
A Window in Moscow |
W. W. Jacobs |
Author |
8-Sep-1863 |
1-Sep-1943 |
The Monkey's Paw |
Hattie Jacques |
Actor |
7-Feb-1922 |
6-Oct-1980 |
Carry on... |
Rona Jaffe |
Author |
12-Jun-1932 |
30-Dec-2005 |
Mazes & Monsters |
Saeed Jaffrey |
Actor |
8-Jan-1929 |
15-Nov-2015 |
My Beautiful Laundrette |
Leander Starr Jameson |
Head of State |
9-Feb-1853 |
26-Nov-1917 |
Last Prime Minister of Capetown |
Bert Jansch |
Singer/Songwriter |
3-Nov-1943 |
5-Oct-2011 |
Pentangle |
Derek Jarman |
Film Director |
31-Jan-1942 |
19-Feb-1994 |
The Last of England |
Jennifer Jayne |
Actor |
14-Nov-1931 |
23-Apr-2006 |
The Crawling Eye |
Jean II |
Royalty |
16-Apr-1319 |
8-Apr-1364 |
King of France, 1350-64 |
Isabel Jeans |
Actor |
16-Sep-1891 |
4-Sep-1985 |
Easy Virtue |
Ursula Jeans |
Actor |
5-May-1906 |
21-Apr-1973 |
The Dam Busters |
John of Gaunt |
Royalty |
Mar-1340 |
3-Feb-1399 |
Duke of Lancaster |
Mervyn Johns |
Actor |
18-Feb-1899 |
6-Sep-1992 |
Dead of Night |
Richard Johnson |
Actor |
30-Jul-1927 |
6-Jun-2015 |
Treasure Island |
Samuel Johnson |
Lexicographer |
18-Sep-1709 |
13-Dec-1784 |
A Dictionary of the English Language |
Griffith Jones |
Actor |
19-Nov-1909 |
30-Jan-2007 |
I Became a Criminal |
Inigo Jones |
Architect |
15-Jul-1573 |
5-Jul-1651 |
The English Palladio |
Ben Jonson |
Playwright |
11-Jun-1572 |
6-Aug-1637 |
Volpone |
Keith Joseph |
Politician |
17-Jan-1918 |
10-Dec-1994 |
Conservative UK Minister, Thatcher influence |
John Justin |
Actor |
24-Nov-1917 |
29-Nov-2002 |
The Thief of Bagdad |
Michael Kamen |
Composer |
15-Apr-1948 |
18-Nov-2003 |
Prolific film composer and conductor |
Bernard Katz |
Scientist |
26-Mar-1911 |
20-Apr-2003 |
Neurotransmitters and the pineal gland |
Edmund Kean |
Actor |
17-Mar-1789 |
15-May-1833 |
English tragic actor |
Andrew Keir |
Actor |
3-Apr-1926 |
5-Oct-1997 |
Quatermass and the Pit |
Kay Kendall |
Actor |
21-May-1926 |
6-Sep-1959 |
Les Girls |
William Kent |
Landscape Architect |
1685 |
12-Apr-1748 |
Influential landscape gardener |
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan |
Musician |
13-Oct-1948 |
16-Aug-1997 |
World-renowned Qawwali vocalist |
Adnan Khashoggi |
Business |
25-Jul-1935 |
6-Jun-2017 |
Saudi billionaire, arms merchant |
Benjamin Kidd |
Sociologist |
9-Sep-1858 |
2-Oct-1916 |
Social Evolution |
Thomas Killigrew |
Playwright |
7-Feb-1612 |
19-Mar-1683 |
The Prisoners |
Rudyard Kipling |
Author |
30-Dec-1865 |
18-Jan-1936 |
The Jungle Book |
Melanie Klein |
Psychologist |
30-Mar-1882 |
22-Sep-1960 |
The Psychoanalysis of Children |
Esmond Knight |
Actor |
4-May-1906 |
23-Feb-1987 |
The River |
Richard Koebner |
Historian |
29-Aug-1885 |
28-Apr-1958 |
Empire |
Arthur Koestler |
Author |
3-Sep-1905 |
3-Mar-1983 |
Darkness at Noon |
Alexander Korda |
Film Director |
16-Sep-1893 |
23-Jan-1956 |
The Private Life of Henry VIII |
Alexis Korner |
Musician |
19-Apr-1928 |
1-Jan-1984 |
Pivotal British blues performer |
Franz Kotzwara |
Composer |
1730 |
2-Feb-1793 |
The Battle of Prague |
Thomas Kyd |
Playwright |
1558 |
Aug-1594 |
The Spanish Tragedy |
Imre Lakatos |
Philosopher |
9-Nov-1922 |
2-Feb-1974 |
Philosopher of Science and Mathematics |
Greg Lake |
Musician |
10-Nov-1947 |
7-Dec-2016 |
Emerson, Lake and Palmer |
Constant Lambert |
Composer |
23-Aug-1905 |
21-Aug-1951 |
Rio Grande |
Lupino Lane |
Actor |
16-Jun-1892 |
10-Nov-1959 |
The Love Parade |
Denys Lasdun |
Architect |
8-Sep-1914 |
11-Jan-2001 |
British modernist architect |
Harold Laski |
Economist |
30-Jun-1893 |
24-Mar-1950 |
A Grammar of Politics |
Frank Latimore |
Actor |
28-Sep-1925 |
29-Nov-1998 |
Shock |
William Laud |
Religion |
7-Oct-1573 |
10-Jan-1645 |
Archbishop of Canterbury, 1633-45 |
Andrew Bonar Law |
Head of State |
16-Sep-1858 |
30-Oct-1923 |
UK Prime Minister, 1922-23 |
Sir Thomas Lawrence |
Painter |
13-Apr-1769 |
7-Jan-1830 |
English portrait painter |
Wilfrid Lawson |
Actor |
14-Jan-1900 |
10-Oct-1966 |
Pygmalion |
Frank Lawton |
Actor |
30-Sep-1904 |
10-Jun-1969 |
A Night to Remember |
Philip Leacock |
Film Director |
8-Oct-1917 |
14-Jul-1990 |
The Spanish Gardener |
Louis Leakey |
Anthropologist |
7-Aug-1903 |
1-Oct-1972 |
Discovered Homo Habilis |
David Lean |
Film Director |
25-Mar-1908 |
16-Apr-1991 |
Lawrence of Arabia |
Bernard Lee |
Actor |
10-Jan-1908 |
16-Jan-1981 |
James Bond's M |
Christopher Lee |
Actor |
27-May-1922 |
7-Jun-2015 |
The Face of Fu Manchu |
Nathaniel Lee |
Playwright |
c. 1653 |
6-May-1692 |
The Rival Queens |
John Lehmann |
Poet |
2-Jun-1907 |
7-Apr-1987 |
Thrown to the Woolfs |
Vivien Leigh |
Actor |
5-Nov-1913 |
8-Jul-1967 |
Gone With The Wind |
Frederick Leighton |
Painter |
31-Dec-1830 |
25-Jan-1896 |
Classical Victorian English painter |
Robert Leighton |
Religion |
1611 |
25-Jun-1684 |
Archbishop of Glasgow |
Doris Lessing |
Novelist |
22-Oct-1919 |
17-Nov-2013 |
Children of Violence series |
George Henry Lewes |
Philosopher |
18-Apr-1817 |
28-Nov-1878 |
The Problems of Life and Mind |
Wyndham Lewis |
Painter |
18-Nov-1882 |
7-Mar-1957 |
Vorticist movement |
Thomas Linacre |
Doctor |
c. 1460 |
20-Oct-1524 |
Established the Royal Academy of Physicians |
Bernard Lintot |
Publisher |
1-Dec-1675 |
3-Feb-1736 |
18th century English publisher |
Margaret Lockwood |
Actor |
15-Sep-1916 |
15-Jul-1990 |
Cast a Dark Shadow |
Herbert Lom |
Actor |
11-Sep-1917 |
27-Sep-2012 |
Chief Inspector Dreyfus |
John Longden |
Actor |
11-Nov-1900 |
26-May-1971 |
Quatermass 2 |
Elizabeth Longford |
Historian |
30-Aug-1906 |
23-Oct-2002 |
Victoria R. I. |
Frederick Lonsdale |
Playwright |
5-Feb-1881 |
4-Apr-1954 |
The King of Cadonia |
Jon Lord |
Musician |
9-Jun-1941 |
16-Jul-2012 |
Founder of Deep Purple |
Joseph Losey |
Film Director |
14-Jan-1909 |
22-Jun-1984 |
The Go-Between |
Bessie Love |
Actor |
10-Sep-1898 |
26-Apr-1986 |
The Broadway Melody |
Ada Lovelace |
Mathematician |
10-Dec-1815 |
27-Nov-1852 |
Programmed the (theoretical) difference engine |
Richard Lovelace |
Poet |
1618 |
1658 |
To Althea from Prison |
Sir Hudson Lowe |
Military |
28-Jul-1769 |
10-Jan-1844 |
Governor of St. Helena over Napoleon |
Eric Lubbock |
Politician |
29-Sep-1928 |
14-Feb-2016 |
4th Baron Avebury |
Edwin Lutyens |
Architect |
29-Mar-1869 |
1-Jan-1944 |
Laid the plan for New Delhi |
Charles Lyell |
Geologist |
14-Nov-1797 |
22-Feb-1875 |
Principles of Geology |
John Lyly |
Playwright |
1554 |
18-Nov-1606 |
Euphues |
Edmund C. Lynch |
Business |
19-May-1885 |
12-May-1938 |
The Lynch of Merrill-Lynch |
Thomas Babington Macaulay |
Historian |
25-Oct-1800 |
28-Dec-1859 |
History of England |
Simon MacCorkindale |
Actor |
12-Feb-1952 |
14-Oct-2010 |
Harry Harper on Casualty |
John Mack |
Psychiatrist |
4-Oct-1929 |
27-Sep-2004 |
A Prince of Our Disorder |
John Mackenzie |
Film Director |
16-Aug-1932 |
8-Jun-2011 |
The Long Good Friday |
Charles Rennie Mackintosh |
Architect |
7-Jun-1868 |
10-Dec-1928 |
Glasgow Style designer |
Iain Macleod |
Politician |
11-Nov-1913 |
20-Jul-1970 |
UK Colonial Secretary, 1959-61 |
Louis MacNeice |
Poet |
12-Sep-1907 |
3-Sep-1963 |
Autumn Journal |
Patrick Magee |
Actor |
31-Mar-1922 |
14-Aug-1982 |
Mr. Alexander in A Clockwork Orange |
Edmond Malone |
Scholar |
4-Oct-1741 |
25-Apr-1812 |
Irish Shakespearian scholar |
Bernard de Mandeville |
Author |
Nov-1670 |
21-Jan-1733 |
The Fable of the Bees |
Karl Mannheim |
Sociologist |
27-Mar-1893 |
9-Jan-1947 |
Ideology and Utopia |
Frederic Manning |
Poet |
1887 |
22-Feb-1935 |
The Middle Parts of Fortune |
Peter Mansfield |
Physicist |
9-Oct-1933 |
8-Feb-2017 |
Magnetic resonance imaging |
Gideon Mantell |
Geologist |
3-Feb-1790 |
10-Nov-1852 |
English paleontologist and geologist |
Princess Margaret |
Royalty |
21-Aug-1930 |
9-Feb-2002 |
QEII's sister, the Countess of Snowdon |
Howard Marion-Crawford |
Actor |
17-Jan-1914 |
24-Nov-1969 |
Dr. Watson on Sherlock Holmes |
Georgi Markov |
Victim |
1-Mar-1929 |
11-Sep-1978 |
Killed with a ricin-tipped umbrella |
Christopher Marlowe |
Playwright |
6-Feb-1564 |
30-May-1593 |
Doctor Faustus |
Neville Marriner |
Conductor |
15-Apr-1924 |
2-Oct-2016 |
Academy of St. Martin in the Fields |
John Marston |
Playwright |
7-Oct-1576 |
25-Jun-1634 |
The Malcontent |
George Martin |
Music Producer |
3-Jan-1926 |
8-Mar-2016 |
Beatles producer |
Andrew Marvell |
Poet |
31-Mar-1621 |
18-Aug-1678 |
English poet and member of Parliament |
Karl Marx |
Economist |
5-May-1818 |
14-Mar-1883 |
Das Kapital, Communist Manifesto |
Mary of Teck |
Royalty |
26-May-1867 |
24-Mar-1953 |
Queen Mary, Consort of George V |
A. E. W. Mason |
Novelist |
7-May-1865 |
22-Nov-1948 |
The Four Feathers |
Daniel Massey |
Actor |
10-Oct-1933 |
25-Mar-1998 |
Star! |
Vincent Massey |
Government |
20-Feb-1887 |
30-Dec-1967 |
Governor-General of Canada, 1952-59 |
Philip Massinger |
Playwright |
1583 |
1639 |
The Virgin Martyr |
Reginald Maudling |
Politician |
7-Mar-1917 |
14-Feb-1979 |
UK Home Secretary, 1970-72 |
Frederick Denison Maurice |
Religion |
29-Aug-1805 |
1-Apr-1872 |
19th c. Anglican theologian |
George du Maurier |
Artist |
6-Mar-1834 |
6-Oct-1896 |
British caricaturist, Punch |
Sir Hiram Maxim |
Inventor |
5-Feb-1840 |
24-Nov-1916 |
Maxim machine gun |
Thomas May |
Poet |
1595 |
13-Nov-1650 |
The History of the Long Parliament |
Rik Mayall |
Actor |
7-Mar-1958 |
9-Jun-2014 |
Rick on The Young Ones |
Henry Mayhew |
Journalist |
1812 |
25-Jul-1887 |
Punch |
Richard Mayne |
Author |
2-Apr-1926 |
29-Nov-2009 |
The Community of Europe |
Alec McCowen |
Actor |
26-May-1925 |
6-Feb-2017 |
English Shakespearean actor |
Hugh McDermott |
Actor |
20-Mar-1906 |
29-Jan-1972 |
The Seventh Veil |
Geraldine McEwan |
Actor |
9-May-1932 |
30-Jan-2015 |
Mapp & Lucia |
Robert B. McGehee |
Business |
c. 1943 |
9-Oct-2007 |
CEO of Progress Energy, 2004-07 |
Peter Medawar |
Biologist |
28-Feb-1915 |
2-Oct-1987 |
Acquired immunological tolerance |
Joe Meek |
Music Producer |
5-Apr-1929 |
3-Feb-1967 |
Innovative record producer |
Edward Mellanby |
Doctor |
8-Apr-1884 |
30-Jan-1955 |
Rickets |
Ismail Merchant |
Film/TV Producer |
25-Dec-1936 |
25-May-2005 |
Co-Founder, Merchant Ivory Productions |
Freddie Mercury |
Singer/Songwriter |
5-Sep-1946 |
24-Nov-1991 |
Lead singer, Queen |
John Merivale |
Actor |
1-Dec-1917 |
6-Feb-1990 |
The List of Adrian Messenger |
David Merrick |
Theatre Producer |
27-Nov-1911 |
25-Apr-2000 |
Hello, Dolly! |
Joseph Merrick |
Oddity |
5-Aug-1862 |
11-Apr-1890 |
The Elephant Man |
Keith Michell |
Actor |
1-Dec-1928 |
20-Nov-2015 |
The Six Wives of Henry VIII |
Thomas Middleton |
Playwright |
18-Apr-1580 |
4-Jul-1627 |
A Game at Chess |
Ralph Miliband |
Scholar |
7-Jan-1924 |
21-May-1994 |
Parliamentary Socialism |
John Everett Millais |
Painter |
8-Jun-1829 |
13-Aug-1896 |
British Pre-Raphaelite painter |
Stephen Milligan |
Politician |
12-May-1948 |
7-Feb-1994 |
British MP and autoerotic asphyxiate |
Nathan Milstein |
Violinist |
13-Jan-1904 |
21-Dec-1992 |
Virtuoso violinist, interpreter of Bach |
Anthony Minghella |
Film Director |
6-Jan-1954 |
18-Mar-2008 |
The English Patient |
Yvonne Mitchell |
Actor |
7-Jul-1925 |
24-Mar-1979 |
The Queen of Spades |
Abraham de Moivre |
Mathematician |
26-May-1667 |
27-Nov-1754 |
Doctrine of Chances |
Matt Monro |
Singer |
1-Dec-1930 |
7-Feb-1985 |
Born Free |
Elizabeth Montagu |
Socialite |
2-Oct-1720 |
25-Aug-1800 |
English leader of society |
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu |
Author |
26-May-1689 |
21-Aug-1762 |
Letters |
Ron Moody |
Actor |
8-Jan-1924 |
11-Jun-2015 |
Fagin in Oliver Twist |
Albert Moore |
Painter |
4-Sep-1841 |
25-Sep-1893 |
English classicist painter |
Bobby Moore |
Soccer |
12-Apr-1941 |
24-Feb-1993 |
Captain, 1966 World Cup team |
George Moore |
Novelist |
23-Feb-1852 |
21-Jan-1933 |
Esther Waters |
Kenneth More |
Actor |
20-Sep-1914 |
12-Jul-1982 |
The Admirable Crichton |
Sir Thomas More |
Philosopher |
7-Feb-1477 |
6-Jul-1535 |
Utopia |
Garfield Morgan |
Actor |
19-Apr-1931 |
5-Dec-2009 |
Chief Haskins on The Sweeney |
Stanley Morison |
Typographer |
6-May-1889 |
11-Oct-1967 |
Times New Roman |
Iris Morley |
Author |
10-May-1910 |
27-Jul-1953 |
A Thousand Lives |
Thomas Morley |
Composer |
c. 1557 |
Oct-1602 |
Laboravi in Gemitu Meo |
Herbert Morrison |
Politician |
3-Jan-1888 |
6-Mar-1965 |
UK Home Secretary, 1940-45 |
Barry Morse |
Actor |
10-Jun-1918 |
2-Feb-2008 |
Lt. Gerard on The Fugitive |
Clive Morton |
Actor |
16-Mar-1904 |
24-Sep-1975 |
Kind Hearts and Coronets |
Peggy Mount |
Actor |
2-May-1916 |
13-Nov-2001 |
George and the Dragon |
Janet Munro |
Actor |
28-Sep-1934 |
6-Dec-1972 |
Swiss Family Robinson |
Lewis Namier |
Historian |
27-Jun-1888 |
19-Aug-1960 |
England in the Age of the American Revolution |
Napoleon III |
Royalty |
20-Apr-1808 |
9-Jan-1873 |
Emperor of France, 1852-70 |
Joseph E. Nathan |
Business |
2-Mar-1835 |
2-May-1912 |
Founder of Glaxo |
Roy William Neill |
Film Director |
4-Sep-1887 |
14-Dec-1946 |
Pursuit to Algiers |
Thomas Newcomen |
Inventor |
28-Feb-1663 |
5-Aug-1729 |
Atmospheric steam engine |
John Alexander Reina Newlands |
Chemist |
26-Nov-1837 |
29-Jul-1898 |
Periodic Law of Elements |
Edwin Newman |
Journalist |
25-Jan-1919 |
13-Aug-2010 |
Journalist and commentator for NBC News |
Isaac Newton |
Physicist |
4-Jan-1643 |
31-Mar-1727 |
Father of the clockwork universe |
John Newton |
Religion |
4-Aug-1725 |
31-Dec-1807 |
Amazing Grace |
Florence Nightingale |
Activist |
12-May-1820 |
13-Aug-1910 |
Established nursing as a profession |
Derek Nimmo |
Actor |
19-Sep-1930 |
24-Feb-1999 |
All Gas and Gaiters |
Philip Noel-Baker |
Politician |
1-Nov-1889 |
8-Oct-1982 |
Instrumental creating League of Nations and UN |
Ivor Novello |
Composer |
15-Jan-1893 |
6-Mar-1951 |
Keep the Home Fires Burning |
Peter O'Toole |
Actor |
2-Aug-1932 |
14-Dec-2013 |
Lawrence of Arabia |
Titus Oates |
Criminal |
15-Sep-1649 |
12-Jul-1705 |
Popish Plot |
John Ogilby |
Publisher |
1600 |
4-Sep-1676 |
Royal Cosmographer, printer |
Sir John Oldcastle |
Military |
c. 1378 |
14-Dec-1417 |
Lollard rebel leader |
Anne Oldfield |
Actor |
1683 |
23-Oct-1730 |
18th century English actress |
Isaac Oliver |
Painter |
c. 1556 |
2-Oct-1617 |
English miniature painter |
John Opie |
Painter |
May-1761 |
9-Apr-1807 |
English portrait painter |
William of Orange |
Royalty |
14-Nov-1650 |
8-Mar-1702 |
Conquered England, Scotland, Ireland |
Joe Orton |
Playwright |
1-Jan-1933 |
9-Aug-1967 |
Prick Up Your Ears |
George Orwell |
Author |
25-Jun-1903 |
21-Jan-1950 |
1984 and Animal Farm |
Thomas Otway |
Playwright |
3-Mar-1652 |
14-Apr-1685 |
Venice Preserved |
Peter D. Ouspensky |
Philosopher |
5-Mar-1878 |
2-Oct-1947 |
Esoteric philosopher, Tertium Organum |
Sir Thomas Overbury |
Poet |
18-Jun-1581 |
15-Sep-1613 |
The Wife |
Bill Owen |
Actor |
14-Mar-1914 |
12-Jul-1999 |
Last of the Summer Wine |
Sir Richard Owen |
Naturalist |
20-Jul-1804 |
18-Dec-1892 |
A History of British Fossil Reptiles |
Sir James Paget |
Doctor |
11-Jan-1814 |
20-Dec-1899 |
Father of modern pathology |
Francis Turner Palgrave |
Critic |
28-Sep-1824 |
24-Oct-1897 |
Golden Treasury |
Sir Anthony Panizzi |
Curator |
16-Sep-1797 |
8-Apr-1879 |
Librarian of the British Museum |
Emmeline Pankhurst |
Activist |
14-Jul-1857 |
14-Jun-1928 |
Militant suffragette |
Pasquale Paoli |
Military |
26-Apr-1725 |
5-Feb-1807 |
Corsican patriot |
Eduardo Paolozzi |
Sculptor |
7-Mar-1924 |
22-Apr-2005 |
Surrealist sculptor |
Denis Papin |
Inventor |
22-Aug-1647 |
c. 1712 |
Steam engine innovator |
Matthew Parker |
Religion |
6-Aug-1504 |
15-May-1575 |
Archbishop of Canterbury, 1559-75 |
James Parkinson |
Doctor |
11-Apr-1755 |
21-Dec-1824 |
Essay on the Shaking Palsy |
Thomas Parr |
Oddity |
c. 1483 |
14-Nov-1635 |
Purported English centenarian |
Nigel Patrick |
Actor |
2-May-1913 |
21-Sep-1981 |
The Browning Version |
George Peabody |
Business |
18-Feb-1795 |
4-Nov-1869 |
American businessman, philanthropist |
Robert Peel |
Head of State |
5-Feb-1788 |
2-Jul-1850 |
U.K. Prime Minister |
George Peele |
Playwright |
1558 |
9-Nov-1596 |
The Old Wives Tale |
Henry Pelham |
Head of State |
25-Sep-1694 |
6-Mar-1754 |
UK Prime Minister, 1743-54 |
Samuel Pepys |
Author |
23-Feb-1633 |
26-May-1703 |
London diarist |
Spencer Perceval |
Head of State |
1-Nov-1762 |
11-May-1812 |
UK Prime Minister, 1809-12 |
William Henry Perkin |
Chemist |
12-Mar-1838 |
14-Jul-1907 |
Invented mauve |
Ambrose Philips |
Poet |
c. 1675 |
18-Jun-1749 |
Pastorals |
Katharine Philips |
Poet |
1-Jan-1631 |
22-Jun-1664 |
Letters of Orinda to Poliarchus |
Ben Pimlott |
Historian |
4-Jul-1945 |
10-Apr-2004 |
Definitive biography of Elizabeth II |
Arthur Wing Pinero |
Playwright |
24-May-1855 |
23-Nov-1934 |
The Second Mrs. Tanqueray |
Harold Pinter |
Playwright |
10-Oct-1930 |
24-Dec-2008 |
The Birthday Party |
Ingrid Pitt |
Actor |
21-Nov-1937 |
23-Nov-2010 |
Countess Dracula |
William Pitt the Younger |
Head of State |
28-May-1759 |
23-Jan-1806 |
UK Prime Minister |
Sylvia Plath |
Poet |
27-Oct-1932 |
11-Feb-1963 |
Daddy |
Reginald Pole |
Religion |
3-Mar-1500 |
17-Nov-1558 |
Opponent of King Henry VIII |
Karl Popper |
Philosopher |
28-Jul-1902 |
17-Sep-1994 |
Critical Rationalist |
Eric Porter |
Actor |
8-Apr-1928 |
15-May-1995 |
The Forsyte Saga |
Nyree Dawn Porter |
Actor |
22-Jan-1936 |
10-Apr-2001 |
The Forsyte Saga |
Enoch Powell |
Politician |
16-Jun-1912 |
8-Feb-1998 |
British demagogue |
Sir Edward Poynter |
Painter |
20-Mar-1836 |
26-Jul-1919 |
British Neo-Classical painter |
Samuel Lowell Price |
Business |
12-Jan-1821 |
19-May-1887 |
The Price of Price Waterhouse Coopers |
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 |
Henry Purcell |
Composer |
c. 1659 |
21-Nov-1695 |
Dido and Aeneas |
George Puttenham |
Author |
c. 1529 |
1590 |
The Arte of English Poesie |
Anthony Quayle |
Actor |
7-Sep-1913 |
20-Oct-1989 |
Ice-Cold in Alex |
Denis Quilley |
Actor |
26-Dec-1927 |
5-Oct-2003 |
Privates on Parade |
Ann Radcliffe |
Novelist |
9-Jul-1764 |
7-Feb-1823 |
The Mysteries of Udolpho |
A. R. Radcliffe-Brown |
Anthropologist |
17-Jan-1881 |
24-Oct-1955 |
Father of modern social anthropology |
Sir Stamford Raffles |
Government |
6-Jul-1781 |
5-Jul-1826 |
Founder of Singapore |
Kathleen Raine |
Poet |
14-Jun-1908 |
6-Jul-2003 |
Cambridge poet, scholar of Blake |
Luise Rainer |
Actor |
12-Jan-1910 |
30-Dec-2014 |
German film actress |
Charles Reade |
Novelist |
8-Jun-1814 |
11-Apr-1884 |
The Cloister and the Hearth |
Corin Redgrave |
Actor |
16-Jul-1939 |
6-Apr-2010 |
Not About Nightingales |
Carol Reed |
Film Director |
30-Dec-1906 |
25-Apr-1976 |
Oliver! |
Merlyn Rees |
Politician |
18-Dec-1920 |
5-Jan-2006 |
UK Home Secretary, 1976-79 |
George Reid |
Head of State |
25-Feb-1845 |
12-Sep-1918 |
Prime Minister of Australia, 1904-05 |
Whitelaw Reid |
Journalist |
27-Oct-1837 |
15-Dec-1912 |
Editor of the New York Tribune, 1872-1905 |
Humphry Repton |
Landscape Architect |
21-Apr-1752 |
24-Mar-1818 |
Successor to Capability Brown |
Joshua Reynolds |
Painter |
16-Jul-1723 |
23-Feb-1792 |
English portraitist |
Sir Robert Rich |
Government |
1587 |
19-Apr-1658 |
2nd Earl of Warwick |
Wendy Richard |
Actor |
20-Jul-1943 |
26-Feb-2009 |
Are You Being Served? |
Ian Richardson |
Actor |
7-Apr-1934 |
9-Feb-2007 |
House of Cards |
Ralph Richardson |
Actor |
19-Dec-1902 |
10-Oct-1983 |
Things To Come |
Alan Rickman |
Actor |
21-Feb-1946 |
14-Jan-2016 |
Die Hard |
Mark Robson |
Film Director |
4-Dec-1913 |
20-Jun-1978 |
Valley of the Dolls |
Paul Rogers |
Actor |
22-Mar-1917 |
8-Oct-2013 |
British stage actor |
Guy Rolfe |
Actor |
27-Dec-1911 |
19-Oct-2003 |
Mr. Sardonicus |
Mick Ronson |
Guitarist |
26-May-1946 |
29-Apr-1993 |
Bowie/Spiders from Mars guitarist |
Ronald Ross |
Scientist |
13-May-1857 |
16-Sep-1932 |
Discovered malaria parasite in mosquitoes |
Christina Rossetti |
Poet |
5-Dec-1830 |
29-Dec-1894 |
Goblin Market and Other Poems |
Leonard Rossiter |
Actor |
21-Oct-1926 |
5-Oct-1984 |
The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin |
Joseph Rotblat |
Physicist |
4-Nov-1908 |
31-Aug-2005 |
Nuclear physicist, anti-nuke activist |
Vere Rothermere |
Publisher |
27-Apr-1925 |
1-Sep-1998 |
Proprietor of the Daily Mail, 1971-98 |
Nicholas Rowe |
Playwright |
20-Jun-1674 |
6-Dec-1718 |
Editor of William Shakespeare |
Thomas Rowlandson |
Artist |
1756 |
12-Apr-1827 |
English caricaturist |
William Rowley |
Playwright |
c. 1585 |
c. 1642 |
Collaborator with Thomas Middleton |
Conrad Russell |
Historian |
15-Apr-1937 |
14-Oct-2004 |
Fall of the British monarchies, 1637-1642 |
Andrew Sachs |
Actor |
7-Apr-1930 |
23-Nov-2016 |
Manuel on Fawlty Towers |
Thomas Sackville |
Aristocrat |
1536 |
19-Apr-1608 |
Earl of Dorset |
Peter Sallis |
Actor |
1-Feb-1921 |
2-Jun-2017 |
Last of the Summer Wine |
Anthony Frederick Augustus Sandys |
Painter |
1-May-1829 |
25-Jun-1904 |
Pre-Raphaelite British painter |
John Singer Sargent |
Painter |
12-Jan-1856 |
15-Apr-1925 |
American portraitist |
Malcolm Sargent |
Conductor |
29-Apr-1895 |
3-Oct-1967 |
Conductor, BBC Symphony, 1950-57 |
Victor Saville |
Film Director |
25-Sep-1895 |
8-May-1979 |
Kim |
Bon Scott |
Musician |
9-Jul-1946 |
19-Feb-1980 |
Lead Singer for AC/DC |
Paul Scott |
Novelist |
25-Mar-1920 |
1-Mar-1978 |
The Jewel in the Crown |
Erich Segal |
Novelist |
16-Jun-1937 |
17-Jan-2010 |
Love Story |
John Selden |
Scholar |
16-Dec-1584 |
30-Nov-1654 |
English orientalist and jurist |
Peter Sellers |
Actor |
8-Sep-1925 |
24-Jul-1980 |
Inspector Clouseau |
Brian Sewell |
Critic |
15-Jun-1931 |
19-Sep-2015 |
Outsider: Always Almost, Never Quite |
Thomas Shadwell |
Playwright |
c. 1642 |
19-Nov-1692 |
Epsom Wells |
Anthony Shaffer |
Screenwriter |
15-May-1926 |
6-Nov-2001 |
The Wicker Man, Sleuth |
Granville Sharp |
Activist |
21-Nov-1735 |
6-Jul-1813 |
English abolitionist |
Richard Norman Shaw |
Architect |
7-May-1831 |
17-Nov-1912 |
Late 19th c. British architect |
Mary Shelley |
Novelist |
30-Aug-1797 |
1-Feb-1851 |
Frankenstein |
Jack Sheppard |
Criminal |
4-Mar-1702 |
16-Nov-1724 |
English scoundrel, escapee |
Thomas Sheraton |
Designer |
1751 |
22-Oct-1806 |
Neoclassic English furniture designer |
Dinah Sheridan |
Actor |
17-Sep-1920 |
25-Nov-2012 |
Genevieve |
Richard Brinsley Sheridan |
Playwright |
30-Oct-1751 |
7-Jul-1816 |
The School for Scandal |
Robert B. Sherman |
Songwriter |
19-Dec-1925 |
5-Mar-2012 |
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang |
James Shirley |
Playwright |
1596 |
29-Oct-1666 |
Love Tricks |
Emily Anne Eliza Shirreff |
Educator |
3-Nov-1814 |
20-Mar-1897 |
Women's education reformer |
Isaac Shoenberg |
Engineer |
1-Mar-1880 |
25-Jan-1963 |
405-line format television |
Sarah Siddons |
Actor |
5-Jul-1755 |
8-Jun-1831 |
18th c. English tragic actress |
Algernon Sidney |
Politician |
1622 |
7-Dec-1683 |
Dangerous English parliamentarian |
Alan Sillitoe |
Novelist |
4-Mar-1928 |
25-Apr-2010 |
The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner |
Alastair Sim |
Actor |
9-Oct-1900 |
19-Aug-1976 |
Scrooge in A Christmas Carol |
Simon of Sudbury |
Religion |
1317 |
14-Jun-1381 |
Archbishop of Canterbury, 1375-81 |
Joan Sims |
Actor |
9-May-1930 |
28-Jun-2001 |
Carry On... |
Edith Sitwell |
Poet |
7-Sep-1887 |
9-Dec-1964 |
Façade |
John Skelton |
Poet |
c. 1460 |
21-Jun-1529 |
Why come ye nat to courte |
Sir Hans Sloane |
Curator |
16-Apr-1660 |
11-Jan-1753 |
Milk chocolate and the British Museum |
John Smith |
Explorer |
1580 |
21-Jun-1631 |
Founder of Jamestown Colony |
Mel Smith |
Actor |
3-Dec-1952 |
20-Jul-2013 |
Alas Smith & Jones |
Sydney Smith |
Religion |
3-Jun-1771 |
22-Feb-1845 |
Instigated the Edinburgh Review |
Alison Smithson |
Architect |
22-Jun-1928 |
14-Aug-1993 |
New Brutalist |
Peter Denham Smithson |
Architect |
18-Sep-1923 |
3-Mar-2003 |
New Brutalist |
C. P. Snow |
Author |
15-Oct-1905 |
1-Jul-1980 |
The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution |
Nahum Sokolow |
Activist |
3-Feb-1859 |
17-May-1936 |
World Zionist Organization |
Thomas Southerne |
Playwright |
1660 |
26-May-1746 |
The Persian Prince |
Robert Southwell |
Religion |
c. 1561 |
21-Feb-1595 |
Catholic martyr, hanged at Tyburn |
Albert Speer |
Architect |
19-Mar-1905 |
1-Sep-1981 |
Hitler's architect |
Henry Spelman |
Scholar |
c. 1564 |
Oct-1641 |
English antiquary |
Harold Spencer Jones |
Astronomer |
29-Mar-1890 |
3-Nov-1960 |
10th Royal Astronomer of England |
Stephen Spender |
Poet |
28-Feb-1909 |
16-Jul-1995 |
The Destructive Element |
Edmund Spenser |
Poet |
c. 1552 |
13-Jan-1599 |
The Faerie Queene |
Norman St. John-Stevas |
Politician |
18-May-1929 |
2-Mar-2012 |
Leader, House of Commons, 1979-81 |
Jock Stallard |
Politician |
5-Nov-1921 |
29-Mar-2008 |
British MP, St. Pancras North, 1970-83 |
Henry Morton Stanley |
Explorer |
28-Jan-1841 |
10-May-1904 |
Dr. Livingstone, I presume? |
Graham Stark |
Actor |
20-Jan-1922 |
29-Oct-2013 |
The Return of the Pink Panther |
Anthony Steel |
Actor |
21-May-1920 |
21-Mar-2001 |
Where No Vultures Fly |
Karel Stepanek |
Actor |
29-Oct-1899 |
25-Dec-1980 |
Czech-English actor, played Germans |
Sir Leslie Stephen |
Encyclopaedist |
28-Nov-1832 |
22-Feb-1904 |
Dictionary of National Biography |
Robert Stephens |
Actor |
14-Jul-1931 |
12-Nov-1995 |
The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes |
Robert Stephenson |
Engineer |
16-Oct-1803 |
12-Oct-1859 |
Builder of railroad bridges |
Laurence Sterne |
Novelist |
24-Nov-1713 |
18-Mar-1768 |
Tristram Shandy |
Alfred Stevens |
Sculptor |
28-Jan-1818 |
1-May-1875 |
Monument to Wellington |
John Stevens |
Drummer |
10-Jun-1940 |
13-Sep-1994 |
Free music drummer and bandleader |
Adlai Stevenson |
Politician |
5-Feb-1900 |
14-Jul-1965 |
Governor of Illinois, 1949-53 |
Donald Ogden Stewart |
Author |
30-Nov-1894 |
2-Aug-1980 |
The Philadelphia Story |
James Stirling |
Architect |
22-Apr-1926 |
25-Jun-1992 |
Pritzker-winning architect |
Nigel Stock |
Actor |
21-Sep-1919 |
22-Jun-1986 |
Dr. Watson in BBC's Sherlock Holmes |
Bram Stoker |
Author |
8-Nov-1847 |
20-Apr-1912 |
Dracula |
Stephen Storace |
Composer |
4-Apr-1762 |
19-Mar-1796 |
The Haunted Tower |
David Storey |
Novelist |
13-Jul-1933 |
27-Mar-2017 |
Saville |
Thomas Stothard |
Painter |
17-Aug-1755 |
27-Apr-1834 |
English subject painter |
John Stow |
Author |
1525 |
6-Apr-1605 |
Antiquary, Survey of London |
Sir Robert Strange |
Engraver |
14-Jul-1721 |
5-Jul-1792 |
Scottish line engraver |
George Edmund Street |
Architect |
20-Jun-1824 |
18-Dec-1881 |
English Gothic revival architect |
William Strode |
Politician |
1598 |
9-Sep-1645 |
Opponent of King Charles I |
Arabella Stuart |
Aristocrat |
1575 |
25-Sep-1615 |
Intriguer for the throne of England |
John McDouall Stuart |
Explorer |
7-Sep-1815 |
5-Jun-1866 |
Explorer of South Australia |
William Stukeley |
Historian |
7-Nov-1687 |
3-Mar-1765 |
Stonehenge, a Temple Restored |
Arthur Sullivan |
Composer |
13-May-1842 |
22-Nov-1900 |
Gilbert & Sullivan |
Screaming Lord Sutch |
Politician |
10-Nov-1940 |
16-Jun-1999 |
Official Monster Raving Loony Party |
Emanuel Swedenborg |
Philosopher |
29-Jan-1688 |
29-Mar-1772 |
Swedish scientist turned Christian mystic |
Nora Swinburne |
Actor |
24-Jul-1902 |
1-May-2000 |
British character actress |
Thomas Sydenham |
Doctor |
13-Sep-1624 |
29-Dec-1689 |
The English Hippocrates |
Basil Sydney |
Actor |
23-Apr-1894 |
10-Jan-1968 |
English stage actor |
James Joseph Sylvester |
Mathematician |
3-Sep-1814 |
15-Mar-1897 |
Studied finite analysis |
George James Symons |
Scientist |
6-Aug-1838 |
10-Mar-1900 |
Meteorologist, British Rainfall |
Sydney Tafler |
Actor |
31-Jul-1916 |
8-Nov-1979 |
The Lavender Hill Mob |
Thomas Tallis |
Composer |
c. 1510 |
23-Nov-1585 |
Miserere Nostri |
Mary Tamm |
Actor |
22-Mar-1950 |
26-Jul-2012 |
Romana #1 from Doctor Who |
Sir Henry Tate |
Philanthropist |
1819 |
5-Dec-1899 |
Bequeathed the Tate Gallery |
Nahum Tate |
Poet |
1652 |
30-Jul-1715 |
Imitative British playwright |
R. H. Tawney |
Scholar |
30-Nov-1880 |
16-Jan-1962 |
The Acquisitive Society |
A. J. P. Taylor |
Historian |
25-Mar-1906 |
7-Sep-1990 |
The Origins of the Second World War |
Brook Taylor |
Mathematician |
18-Aug-1685 |
29-Dec-1731 |
Calculus of Finite Differences |
John Taylor |
Poet |
24-Aug-1580 |
Dec-1653 |
The Water-Poet |
Godfrey Tearle |
Actor |
12-Oct-1884 |
8-Jun-1953 |
The 39 Steps |
Thomas Telford |
Engineer |
9-Aug-1757 |
2-Sep-1834 |
Scottish canal, bridge, and road builder |
Frederick Temple |
Religion |
30-Nov-1821 |
23-Dec-1902 |
Archbishop of Canterbury, 1896-1902 |
Sir John Tenniel |
Artist |
28-Feb-1820 |
25-Feb-1914 |
Illustrator for Punch |
Lionel Tertis |
Violist |
29-Dec-1876 |
22-Feb-1975 |
First prominent violist |
Josephine Tey |
Novelist |
1897 |
13-Feb-1952 |
Richard of Bordeaux |
William Makepeace Thackeray |
Novelist |
18-Jul-1811 |
24-Dec-1863 |
Vanity Fair |
Margaret Thatcher |
Head of State |
13-Oct-1925 |
8-Apr-2013 |
UK Prime Minister, 1979-90 |
Ernest Thesiger |
Actor |
15-Jan-1879 |
14-Jan-1961 |
Dr. Pretorius in Bride of Frankenstein |
Ralph Thomas |
Film Director |
10-Aug-1915 |
17-Mar-2001 |
Deadlier Than the Male |
Sybil Thorndike |
Actor |
24-Oct-1882 |
9-Jun-1976 |
English stage actress |
Frank Thornton |
Actor |
15-Jan-1921 |
16-Mar-2013 |
Are You Being Served? |
Jeremy Thorpe |
Politician |
29-Apr-1929 |
4-Dec-2014 |
Leader of the UK Liberal Party, 1967-76 |
Dimitri Tiomkin |
Composer |
10-May-1894 |
11-Nov-1979 |
Wild Is the Wind |
Ann Todd |
Actor |
24-Jan-1909 |
6-May-1993 |
The Sound Barrier |
Harry Towb |
Actor |
27-Jul-1925 |
24-Jul-2009 |
Northern Irish stage and film actor |
Herbert Beerbohm Tree |
Actor |
17-Dec-1853 |
2-Jul-1917 |
Founder, Royal Academy of Dramatic Art |
Anthony Trollope |
Novelist |
24-Apr-1815 |
6-Dec-1882 |
Barchester Towers |
Edward Troughton |
Inventor |
Oct-1753 |
12-Jun-1835 |
Early scientific instruments |
J. M. W. Turner |
Painter |
23-Apr-1775 |
19-Dec-1851 |
Romanticist English landscape painter |
Madame Tussaud |
Sculptor |
1-Dec-1761 |
16-Apr-1850 |
Wax sculptor |
Wat Tyler |
Military |
? |
15-Jun-1381 |
Wat Tyler's Rebellion |
Margaret Tyzack |
Actor |
9-Sep-1931 |
25-Jun-2011 |
The Forsyte Saga |
Mary Ure |
Actor |
18-Feb-1933 |
3-Apr-1975 |
Sons and Lovers |
Laurens van der Post |
Author |
13-Dec-1906 |
15-Dec-1996 |
The Lost World of the Kalahari |
Anthony Van Dyck |
Painter |
22-Mar-1599 |
9-Dec-1641 |
Flemish portraitist and English court painter |
John Vanbrugh |
Playwright |
24-Jan-1664 |
26-Mar-1726 |
The Provok'd Wife |
Ralph Vaughan Williams |
Composer |
12-Oct-1872 |
26-Aug-1958 |
Sinfonia Antarctica |
Richard Vernon |
Actor |
7-Mar-1925 |
4-Dec-1997 |
Oldenshaw on The Man in Room 17 |
Helen Waddell |
Author |
31-May-1889 |
5-Mar-1965 |
The Wandering Scholars |
Patrick Gordon Walker |
Politician |
7-Apr-1907 |
2-Dec-1980 |
UK Foreign Secretary, 1964-66 |
Robert Walpole |
Head of State |
26-Aug-1676 |
18-Mar-1745 |
UK's first Prime Minister |
Eric Walrond |
Author |
18-Dec-1898 |
8-Aug-1966 |
Tropic Death |
Kay Walsh |
Actor |
27-Aug-1911 |
16-Apr-2005 |
The Horse's Mouth |
Sir Francis Walsingham |
Government |
c. 1532 |
6-Apr-1590 |
Secretary to Elizabeth I |
Sam Wanamaker |
Actor |
14-Jun-1919 |
19-Dec-1993 |
Rebuilt Globe Theatre |
Perkin Warbeck |
Hoaxer |
c. 1474 |
23-Nov-1499 |
Pretender to English throne |
John William Waterhouse |
Painter |
6-Apr-1849 |
10-Feb-1917 |
British Pre-Raphaelite painter |
Keith Waterhouse |
Novelist |
6-Feb-1929 |
4-Sep-2009 |
Billy Liar |
Thomas Watson |
Poet |
c. 1557 |
26-Sep-1592 |
The Tears of Fancie |
Richard Wattis |
Actor |
25-Feb-1912 |
1-Feb-1975 |
English comic actor |
Archibald Wavell |
Military |
5-May-1883 |
24-May-1950 |
British Field Marshal in WWII |
Bernard Weatherill |
Politician |
25-Nov-1920 |
6-May-2007 |
Speaker of the House of Commons, 1983-92 |
Carl Maria von Weber |
Composer |
18-Nov-1786 |
5-Jun-1826 |
Oberon |
Georg Rudolf Weckherlin |
Poet |
15-Sep-1584 |
13-Feb-1653 |
Geistliche und weltliche Gedichte |
George Weidenfeld |
Publisher |
13-Sep-1919 |
20-Jan-2016 |
Co-Founder, Weidenfeld & Nicolson |
H. G. Wells |
Author |
21-Sep-1866 |
13-Aug-1946 |
The War of the Worlds |
John Wesley |
Religion |
17-Jun-1703 |
2-Mar-1791 |
Founder of Methodism |
Benjamin West |
Painter |
10-Oct-1738 |
10-Mar-1820 |
British-American portrait, scene painter |
Rebecca West |
Author |
21-Dec-1892 |
15-Mar-1983 |
Reporter on the Nuremburg Trials |
Mortimer Wheeler |
Archaeologist |
10-Sep-1890 |
22-Jul-1976 |
Archaeology from the Earth |
James Whistler |
Painter |
14-Jul-1834 |
17-Jul-1903 |
Whistler's Mother |
Billie Whitelaw |
Actor |
6-Jun-1932 |
21-Dec-2014 |
The Krays |
Dick Whittington |
Politician |
? |
1423 |
Mayor of London |
William Wilberforce |
Activist |
24-Aug-1759 |
29-Jul-1833 |
Abolitionist activist and author |
Herbert Wilcox |
Film/TV Producer |
19-Apr-1892 |
15-May-1977 |
Forever and a Day |
Michael Wilding |
Actor |
23-Jul-1912 |
8-Jul-1979 |
Torch Song |
John Wilkes |
Politician |
17-Oct-1725 |
26-Dec-1797 |
Colorful London radical |
John Wilkins |
Author |
1614 |
19-Nov-1672 |
Essay towards a Real Character |
Maurice Wilkins |
Biologist |
15-Dec-1916 |
5-Oct-2004 |
Took X-ray pictures of DNA |
Geoffrey Wilkinson |
Chemist |
14-Jul-1921 |
26-Sep-1996 |
Organometallic "sandwich" compounds |
David Williams |
Philosopher |
1738 |
29-Jun-1816 |
Founder, Royal Literary Fund |
Emlyn Williams |
Playwright |
26-Nov-1905 |
25-Sep-1987 |
Night Must Fall |
Hugh Williams |
Actor |
6-Mar-1904 |
7-Dec-1969 |
One of Our Aircraft Is Missing |
Kenneth Williams |
Actor |
22-Feb-1926 |
15-Apr-1988 |
Carry on... |
Michael Williams |
Actor |
9-Jul-1935 |
11-Jan-2001 |
Educating Rita |
Harold Wilson |
Head of State |
11-Mar-1916 |
24-May-1995 |
Two-time Prime Minister of Britain |
Amy Winehouse |
Singer |
14-Sep-1983 |
23-Jul-2011 |
Rehab |
Michael Winner |
Film Director |
30-Oct-1935 |
20-Jan-2013 |
Death Wish |
Donald Wolfit |
Actor |
20-Apr-1902 |
17-Feb-1968 |
Svengali |
William Wollaston |
Philosopher |
26-Mar-1659 |
29-Oct-1724 |
The Religion of Nature Delineated |
William Hyde Wollaston |
Chemist |
6-Aug-1766 |
22-Dec-1828 |
Discovered palladium, rhodium |
Mary Wollstonecraft |
Author |
27-Apr-1759 |
10-Sep-1797 |
Vindication of the Rights of Women |
Cecil Woodham-Smith |
Historian |
29-Apr-1896 |
16-Mar-1977 |
Florence Nightingale |
Eric Woolfson |
Musician |
18-Mar-1945 |
1-Dec-2009 |
Former Alan Parsons Project collaborator |
Christopher Wren |
Architect |
20-Oct-1632 |
25-Feb-1723 |
Designed St. Paul's Cathedral |
William Wycherley |
Playwright |
1640 |
1-Jan-1716 |
The Plain Dealer |
John Wyndham |
Author |
10-Jul-1903 |
11-Mar-1969 |
The Day of the Triffids |
Diana Wynyard |
Actor |
16-Jan-1906 |
13-May-1964 |
Gaslight |
Paula Yates |
TV Personality |
24-Apr-1960 |
17-Sep-2000 |
Rock Stars in Their Underpants |
Pauline Yates |
Actor |
16-Jun-1929 |
21-Jan-2015 |
Harriet's Back in Town |
Peter Yates |
Film Director |
24-Jul-1929 |
9-Jan-2011 |
Breaking Away |
Susannah York |
Actor |
9-Jan-1941 |
14-Jan-2011 |
They Shoot Horses, Don't They? |
Thomas Young |
Physicist |
13-Jun-1773 |
10-May-1829 |
Wave Theory of Light |
Mai Zetterling |
Actor |
24-May-1925 |
17-Mar-1994 |
The Witches |
Fred Zinnemann |
Film Director |
29-Apr-1907 |
14-Mar-1997 |
From Here to Eternity |