Births
- 26 January - John Straffen, serial killer (died 2007)
- 13 February - Ronald Stretton, track cyclist
- 7 March - Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon, photographer and filmmaker
- 8 April - Dorothy Tutin, actress (died 2001)
- 17 April - Chris Barber, jazz trombonist
- 9 May - Joan Sims, actress (died 2001)
- 27 July - Shirley Williams, Baroness Williams of Crosby, co-founder of the Social Democratic Party
- 8 August - Barry Unsworth, novelist
- 13 August - Bernard Manning, comedian (died 2007)
- 17 August - Ted Hughes, poet (died 1998)
- 21 August - Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon (died 2002)
- 25 August - Sean Connery, actor
- 28 August - Windsor Davies, actor
- 10 October - Harold Pinter, playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2008)
- 28 October - Bernie Ecclestone, auto racing tycoon
- 14 November
- Shirley Crabtree, professional wrestler (died 1997)
- Elisabeth Frink, sculptor (died 1993)
- 15 November - J. G. Ballard, writer (died 2009)
- 22 November - Peter Hall, theatre director
- 1 December - Kenneth Box, track and field sprinter
- 4 December - Ronnie Corbett, comedian
- 27 December - Wilfrid Sheed, English-born American writer
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