1914 in The United Kingdom

Births

13 January - Ted Willis, television dramatist and author (died 1992)
15 January - Hugh Trevor-Roper, Baron Dacre of Glanton, historian (died 2003)
4 February - Ida Lupino, actress, director, and writer (died 1995)
5 February - Alan Hodgkin, scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (died 1998)
20 February - Peter Rogers, film producer (died 2009)
14 March - Bill Owen, actor (died 1999)
2 April - Alec Guinness, actor (died 2000)
13 May - Phil Drabble, author and TV personality (died 2007)
28 May - W. G. G. Duncan Smith, World War II pilot (died 1996)
13 June - Freddie Franklin, ballet dancer and choreographer
26 June - Laurie Lee, poet and author (died 1997)
10 July - Charles Donnelly, poet (died 1937)
15 July - Hammond Innes, author (died 1998)
10 August - Ken Annakin, film director (d. 2009)
20 August - Colin MacInnes, novelist (died 1976)
5 September - Stuart Freeborn, make-up artist
11 September - Sidney Hart, trade unionist and religious administrator (died 2005)
12 September - Desmond Llewelyn, actor (died 1999)
18 September - Jack Cardiff, cinematographer, director and photographer (died 2009)
20 September - Kenneth More, actor (died 1982)
23 September - Bethsabée de Rothschild, philanthropist and patron of dance (died 1999)
27 October - Dylan Thomas, poet and author (died 1953)
28 October - Richard Laurence Millington Synge, chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1994)
12 December - Patrick O'Brian, writer (died 2000)