Births
- 19 January - Graham Higman, mathematician (died 2008)
- 25 February - Anthony Burgess, author (died 1993)
- 2 March - John Gardner, composer (died 2011)
- 12 March - Googie Withers, actress (died 2011)
- 20 March - Vera Lynn, actress and singer
- 22 March - Paul Rogers, actor
- 24 March - John Kendrew, molecular biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (died 1997)
- 10 June - Ruari McLean, typographer (died 2006)
- 1 July - Humphry Osmond, psychiatrist (died 2004)
- 10 July - Reg Smythe, cartoonist (died 1998)
- 30 August - Denis Healey, author and politician
- 3 September - Anthony Robert Klitz, artist (died 2000)
- 2 October - Christian de Duve, biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
- 8 October - Rodney Robert Porter, biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (died 1985)
- 22 October - Joan Fontaine, actress
- 22 November - Andrew Huxley, scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (died 2012)
- 22 November - Shabtai Rosenne, British-born Israeli diplomat and recipient of the Israel Prize (died 2010)
- 16 December - Arthur C. Clarke, science fiction author and inventor (died 2008)
- Mary Berry, canoness, choral conductor and musicologist (died 2008)
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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.”
—Francis Bacon (1561–1626)