Births
- 5 January – Steve Arnold, footballer
- 30 January – Phil Collins, musician and producer
- 14 February – Kevin Keegan, footballer and football manager
- 15 February – Jane Seymour, actress
- 20 February – Gordon Brown, Prime Minister
- 27 February – Steve Harley, musician (Cockney Rebel)
- 1 March – Mike Read, television presenter and radio disc jockey
- 4 March – Kenny Dalglish, footballer and football manager
- 4 March – Chris Rea, singer and musician
- 13 April – Peter Davison, actor
- 14 April – Julian Lloyd Webber, cellist and composer
- 20 April – Louise Jameson, actress
- 25 April – Ian McCartney, politician
- 8 June – Bonnie Tyler, singer
- 14 June – Paul Boateng, politician
- 28 June – Lalla Ward, actress
- 24 July – Chris Smith, politician
- 19 August – John Deacon, bassist (Queen)
- 22 September – David Coverdale, singer
- 26 September – Stuart Tosh, musician
- 27 September – Paul Craig, professor of law
- 2 October – Sting, musician
- 15 November – Alamgir Hashmi, poet
- 19 November – Lord Falconer of Thoroton, politician
- 8 December – Bill Bryson, American-born British author
- 10 December – Doug Allder, footballer
- 20 December – Peter May, novelist and television dramatist
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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)