Births
- 20 January – Chandra Wickramasinghe, British astronomer and poet
- 10 February – Peter Purves, British actor and television presenter
- 8 March – Christopher Story, editor and intelligence analyst (d. 2010)
- 12 April – Alan Ayckbourn, playwright
- 22 April – Alex Murphy, English rugby league footballer and coach
- 4 May – Neil Fox, rugby league footballer
- 31 May – Terry Waite, humanitarian, author and hostage
- 5 June – Margaret Drabble, novelist and biographer
- 11 June – Jackie Stewart, Scottish racing driver
- 4 August – Jack Cunningham, politician
- 19 August – Alan Baker, mathematician
- 30 August – John Peel, disc jockey and radio presenter (died 2004)
- 19 October – David George Clark, Baron Clark, politician
- 27 October – John Cleese, British actor
- 18 November – Margaret Jay, Baroness Jay of Paddington, politician
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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.”
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