Births
- 11 January - Maurice Buckmaster, head of Special Operations Executive (d.1992)
- 29 January - Colin Middleton, artist (d. 1983)
- 10 February - Joyce Grenfell, actress, comedian and singer-songwriter (died 1979)
- 13 February - William Shockley, physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1989)
- 21 February - Douglas Bader, World War II fighter pilot (died 1982)
- 1 March - Archer Martin, chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2002)
- 22 March - Nicholas Monsarrat, novelist (died 1979)
- 3 May – Bernard Orchard, biblical scholar (d. 2006)
- 12 May - Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin, chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1994)
- 30 May – Harry Bernstein, author (died 2011)
- 4 June - Christopher Cockerell, inventor (died 1999)
- 12 June - Bill Naughton, playwright (died 1992)
- 13 June - Mary Whitehouse, TV campaigner (died 2001)
- 22 June - Peter Pears, tenor (died 1986)
- 14 July - Vincent Brome, biographer and novelist (died 2004)
- 5 September – Leila Mackinlay, romance writer (d. 1996)
- 10 September
- Betty Neels, novelist (d. 2001)
- Eric de Maré, architectural photographer (d. 2002)
- 8 November - Denis Mahon, art historian and collector (died 2011)
- 14 November - Eric Malpass, novelist (died 1996)
- 19 November - Griffith Jones, actor (died 2007)
- 1 December - Alicia Markova, ballerina (died 2004)
- 29 December - Ronald Coase, economist Nobel Prize laureate
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