Births
- 28 January - Acker Bilk, jazz clarinetist and band leader
- 31 January - Jean Simmons, actress (died 2010)
- 6 February - Keith Waterhouse, novelist and journalist (died 2009)
- 15 February - Graham Hill, race car driver (died 1975)
- 17 February - Patricia Routledge, actress
- 18 February - Len Deighton, author
- 21 February - James Beck, actor (died 1973)
- 23 March - Sir Roger Bannister, runner
- 5 April - Nigel Hawthorne, actor (died 2001)
- 18 April - Peter Jeffrey, actor (died 1999)
- 22 April - Michael Atiyah, mathematician
- 4 May - Audrey Hepburn, actress (died 1993)
- 14 May - Henry McGee, actor (died 2006)
- 12 June - Brigid Brophy, author (died 1995)
- 13 June - Alan Civil, horn player (died 1989)
- 5 July - Tony Lock, cricketer (died 1995)
- 24 July - Peter Yates, film director
- 31 July - Lynne Reid Banks, author
- 8 August - Ronald Biggs, criminal
- 25 August - Clifford Forsythe, politician (died 2000)
- 29 August - Thom Gunn, poet (died 2004)
- 15 September - John Julius Norwich, historian
- 21 September - Bernard Williams, philosopher (died 2003)
- 25 September - Ronnie Barker, comedian (died 2005)
- 7 October - Robert Westall, author (died 1993)
- 28 October - Joan Plowright, actress
- 11 December - Kenneth MacMillan, ballet dancer and choreographer (died 1992)
- 12 December - John Osborne, playwright and film producer (died 1994)
- 16 December - Nicholas Courtney, actor (died 2011)
- 16 December - James Moore, author
- 17 December - Jacqueline Hill, actress (died 1993)
- 28 December - Brian Redhead, journalist and broadcaster (died 1994)
- undated - Kenneth Grange, industrial designer
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“As the births of living creatures, at first, are ill-shapen: so are all Innovations, which are the births of time.”
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