Births
- 1 January – Anne Aubrey, actor
- 8 January – Shirley Bassey, singer
- 27 January – John Ogdon, pianist (died 1989)
- 30 January – Vanessa Redgrave, actress
- 21 February – Jilly Cooper, author
- 25 February – Tom Courtenay, actor
- 12 May – Susan Hampshire, actress
- 13 May – Trevor Baylis, inventor of the wind-up radio
- 23 June – Sir Nicholas Shackleton, geologist (died 2006)
- 3 July – Tom Stoppard, playwright
- 6 August – Barbara Windsor, actress
- 18 August – Willie Rushton, comedian, actor and writer (died 1996)
- 21 August – Donald Dewar, First Minister of Scotland (died 2000)
- 9 October – Brian Blessed, actor
- 11 October – Bobby Charlton, English footballer
- 17 November – Peter Cook, comedian and writer (died 1995)
- 30 November – Ridley Scott, film director
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