J. R. R. Tolkien03 January 1892
Writer
Evelyn Waugh28 October 1903
Writer
Kumar Bhattacharyya, Baron Bhattacharyya06 June 1940
Life peer
Alison Balsom07 October 1978
Musician
Anthony Daniels21 February 1946
Actor
Emma Walton Hamilton27 November 1962
Actress
Crispin Bonham-Carter23 September 1969
Actor
Anna Leonowens05 November 1831
Writer
N. T. Wright01 December 1948
Theologian
Simon Armitage26 May 1963
Poet
Peter Higgs29 May 1929
Physicist
Andrew Jack28 January 1944
Voice coach
Alcuin0735 AD
Poet
Terry Eagleton22 February 1943
Literary critic
Shirley Ballas17 September 1960
Dancer
Angus Deaton19 October 1945
Economist
I. A. Richards26 February 1893
Educator
Nick Brown04 December 1962
Botanist
A. V. Dicey04 February 1835
Jurist
Charles Freer Andrews12 February 1871
Priest
Harold Acton05 July 1904
Writer
Halford Mackinder15 February 1861
Geographer
Stephen Toulmin25 March 1922
Philosopher
Ninette de Valois06 June 1898
Dancer
Henry Liddell06 February 1811
Author
Charlotte Mason01 January 1842
Philanthropist
George Gissing22 November 1857
Novelist
Thomas Arnold13 June 1795
Educator
Benjamin Jowett15 April 1817
Tutor
Rose Tremain02 August 1943
Novelist
Richard Pankhurst03 December 1927
Academic
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R. M. Hare12 March 1919
Philosopher
John Cowper Powys08 October 1872
Philosopher
Malcolm Bradbury07 September 1932
Author
Thomas Gold22 May 1920
Professor
Isaac Pitman04 January 1813
Teacher
Arthur Hugh Clough01 January 1819
Poet
William Sterndale Bennett13 April 1816
Composer
Rowland Hill03 December 1795
Educator
John Sulston27 March 1942
Biologist
Henry Watson Fowler10 March 1858
Lexicographer
Albert Hourani31 March 1915
Historian
Graham Wallas31 May 1858
Psychologist
Frederick James Furnivall04 February 1825
Philologists
Richard Crashaw1612 AD
Poet
Geoffrey Burbidge24 September 1925
Professor
Simon Gray21 October 1936
Playwright
Frederick Temple30 November 1821
Archbishop
Nicholas Ferrar22 February 1592
Scholar
William Jackson Hooker06 July 1785
Botanist
David George Hogarth23 May 1862
Archaeologist
Marie Rambert20 February 1888
Dancer
Richard Whately01 February 1787
Economist
Barbara Bodichon08 April 1827
Artist
Mary Corinna Putnam Jacobi31 August 1842
Physician
Norman MacCaig14 November 1910
Poet
Tom Kilburn11 August 1921
Computer scientist
Herbert Giles08 December 1845
Diplomat
Emily Davies22 April 1830
Activist
Cuthbert Tunstall1474 AD
Religious Leader
Reynold A. Nicholson18 August 1868
Translator
Walter Terence Stace17 November 1886
Civil Servant
H. A. L. Fisher21 March 1865
Historian
Egon Wellesz21 October 1885
Composer
Antony Tudor04 April 1908
Choreographer
William George Horner09 June 1786
Mathematician
Alexander Neckam08 September 1157
Scholar
Mary Carpenter03 April 1807
Educational and Social Reformer
Ursula Holden-Gill21 March 1974
Educator
C. Lloyd Morgan06 February 1852
Psychologist
John Cheke16 June 1514
Statesman
Susanna Rowson1762 AD
Novelist
Hartley Coleridge19 September 1796
Poet
Tom Kibble23 December 1932
Physicist
John Machin1686 AD
Mathematician
John Curwen14 November 1816
British educator
Frederic Farrar07 August 1831
Author
Fleeming Jenkin25 March 1833
Engineer
George Saintsbury23 October 1845
Writer
John Milne30 December 1850
Geologist
Goldsworthy Gurney14 February 1793
Surgeon
Nicholas Udall1504 AD
Writer
Geoffrey Jellicoe08 October 1900
Architect
Claude Montefiore1858 AD
Religious leader
Richard Mulcaster1531 AD
Educator
Alfred Richard Orage22 January 1873
Teacher
Augustus Edward Hough Love17 April 1863
Mathematician
David Samuel Margoliouth17 October 1858
Orientalist
Arnold Dolmetsch24 February 1858
Musician
Joseph Hertz25 September 1872
Rabbi
Francis Aidan Gasquet05 October 1846
Monk
Tobias Matthay19 February 1858
Pianist
Jonathan Boucher12 May 1738
Teacher
Harold Bauer28 April 1873
Pianist