1
Thomas Hobbes
(English Philosopher and One of the Founders of Modern Political Philosophy)
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16
Listed In: Writers
Birthdate: April 5, 1588
Sun Sign: Aries
Birthplace: Westport, Wiltshire, England
Died: December 4, 1679
2
Douglas Adams
(Author of the BBC Radio Comedy Series "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy")
44
15
Listed In: Film & Theater Personalities
Birthdate: March 11, 1952
Sun Sign: Pisces
Birthplace: Cambridge, England
Died: May 11, 2001
Height: 6'5" (196 cm)
3
Roger Penrose
(English Mathematician, Mathematical Physicist and Winner of the 2020 Nobel Prize for Physics)
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3
4
Cecil Beaton
(British Photographer and Costume Designer)
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1
Listed In: Photographers
Birthdate: January 14, 1904
Sun Sign: Capricorn
Birthplace: Hampstead, London, England
Died: January 18, 1980
5
John Herschel
(British Polymath Known for His Invention of 'Blueprint')
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4
Listed In: Scientists
Birthdate: March 7, 1792
Sun Sign: Pisces
Birthplace: Slough, Buckinghamshire, England
Died: May 11, 1871
6
Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston
(Politician)
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3
Listed In: Leaders
Birthdate: October 20, 1784
Sun Sign: Libra
Birthplace: Westminster, Middlesex, England
Died: October 18, 1865
7
Paul Ritter
(Actor)
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9
Listed In: Film & Theater Personalities
Birthdate: December 20, 1966
Sun Sign: Sagittarius
Birthplace: Kent, England
Died: April 5, 2021
8
Jamie Bamber
(Known for His Roles in the TV Series: Battlestar Galactica and Law & Order: UK)
1
0
Listed In: Film & Theater Personalities
Birthdate: April 3, 1973
Sun Sign: Aries
Birthplace: Hammersmith, London, England
Height: 5'9" (175 cm)
9
Jonah Hauer-King
(Actor)
6
6
Listed In: Film & Theater Personalities
Birthdate: May 30, 1995
Sun Sign: Gemini
Birthplace: Westminster, London, England
10
Mervyn King
(British Economist Who Served as Governor of the Bank of England)
1
0
Listed In: Miscellaneous
Birthdate: March 30, 1948
Sun Sign: Aries
Birthplace: Chesham Bois, Buckinghamshire, England
11
Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury
(Former Secretary of State of England (1596 - 1612))
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5
Listed In: Leaders
Birthdate: June 1, 1563
Sun Sign: Gemini
Birthplace: Westminster, London, England
Died: May 24, 1612
12
Samuel Butler
(Novelist)
2
0
Listed In: Writers
Birthdate: December 4, 1835
Sun Sign: Sagittarius
Birthplace: Langar, Nottinghamshire, England
Died: June 18, 1902
13
Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford
(Courtier)
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0
Listed In: Miscellaneous
Birthdate: April 12, 1550
Sun Sign: Aries
Birthplace: Hedingham Castle, England
Died: June 24, 1604
14
John Ambrose Fleming
(British Electrical Engineer and Physicist Who Invented the First 'Thermionic Valve' or 'Vacuum Tube')
1
1
Listed In: Engineers
Birthdate: November 29, 1849
Sun Sign: Sagittarius
Birthplace: Lancaster, Lancashire, England
Died: April 18, 1945
15
William Gilbert
(Physician)
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15
Listed In: Physicians
Birthdate: May 24, 1544
Sun Sign: Gemini
Birthplace: Colchester , England, United Kingdom
Died: November 30, 1603
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Henry Wriothesley, 3rd earl of Southampton
(Noble)
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2
Listed In: Miscellaneous
Birthdate: October 6, 1573
Sun Sign: Libra
Birthplace: Cowdray, England
Died: November 10, 1624
17
Thomas Wentworth, 1st earl of Strafford
(Noble)
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0
Listed In: Miscellaneous
Birthdate: April 13, 1593
Sun Sign: Aries
Birthplace: London, England
Died: May 12, 1641
18
Charles Algernon Parsons
(Anglo-Irish Engineer Best Known for His Invention of the 'Compound Steam Turbine')
3
0
Listed In: Inventors & Discoverers
Birthdate: June 13, 1854
Sun Sign: Gemini
Birthplace: London, England
Died: February 11, 1931
19
John Gardner
(English Spy and Novelist, Best Known for His 'James Bond' Continuation Novels)
4
0
Listed In: Miscellaneous
Birthdate: November 20, 1926
Sun Sign: Scorpio
Birthplace: Northumberland, England
Died: August 3, 2007
20
George Darwin
(British Barrister, Astronomer and the Second Son of Naturalist Charles Darwin)
3
1
Listed In: Scientists
Birthdate: July 9, 1845
Sun Sign: Cancer
Birthplace: Down House, Downe, Kent, England
Died: December 7, 1912
21
Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham
(Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom)
0
1
Listed In: Leaders
Birthdate: May 13, 1730
Sun Sign: Taurus
Birthplace: Wentworth, Yorkshire, England
Died: July 1, 1782
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Hugh Rose, 1st Baron Strathnairn
(Field marshal)
0
0
Listed In: Leaders
Birthdate: April 6, 1801
Sun Sign: Aries
Birthplace: Berlin, Germany
Died: October 16, 1885
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James Joseph Sylvester
(Former Mathematician who made fundamental contributions to matrix theory, invariant theory, number theory, partition theory, and combinatorics)
2
0
Listed In: Scientists
Birthdate: September 3, 1814
Sun Sign: Virgo
Birthplace: London, England, United Kingdom
Died: March 15, 1897
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Rudolf Peierls
(British Physicist Who Played a Major Role in 'Tube Alloys')
0
0
Listed In: Scientists
Birthdate: June 5, 1907
Sun Sign: Gemini
Birthplace: Berlin, Germany
Died: September 19, 1995
25
William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Newcastle
(Courtier)
2
1
Listed In: Miscellaneous
Birthdate: December 16, 1593
Sun Sign: Sagittarius
Birthplace: Handsworth, West Riding of Yorkshire, England
Died: December 25, 1676
26
John Vincent
(Writer)
0
0
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John Browne, Baron Browne of Madingley
(Businessman)
0
2
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F. J. Robinson, 1st Viscount Goderich
(Politician)
0
1
Listed In: Leaders
Birthdate: November 1, 1782
Sun Sign: Scorpio
Birthplace: Skelton-on-Ure, England
Died: January 28, 1859
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Norman Heatley
(English Biochemist, Biologist and One of the Scientists Who Developed 'Penicillin')
1
1
Listed In: Scientists
Birthdate: January 10, 1911
Sun Sign: Capricorn
Birthplace: Woodbridge, Suffolk, England
Died: January 5, 2004
30
David Cox
(Statistician)
0
1
Listed In: Intellectuals & Academics
Birthdate: July 15, 1924
Sun Sign: Cancer
Birthplace: Birmingham, England
31
T. E. Hulme
(Poet & Critic)
0
3
Listed In: Critics & Connoisseurs
Birthdate: September 16, 1883
Sun Sign: Virgo
Birthplace: Endon, England
Died: September 28, 1917
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Roger Ascham
(Scholar)
0
0
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Edward Victor Appleton
(English Physicist Who Won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1947)
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0
Listed In: Scientists
Birthdate: September 6, 1892
Sun Sign: Virgo
Birthplace: Bradford, England
Died: April 21, 1965
34
Nevill Francis Mott
(Physicist Who Won the 1977 Nobel Prize in Physics for His Work on Electronic, Magnetic, and Disordered Systems)
3
0
Listed In: Scientists
Birthdate: September 30, 1905
Sun Sign: Libra
Birthplace: Leeds, England
Died: August 8, 1996
35
Thomas Sackville, 1st Earl of Dorset
(Poet)
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0
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Algernon Percy, 10th earl of Northumberland
(Aristocrat)
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0
Listed In: Miscellaneous
Birthdate: September 29, 1602
Sun Sign: Libra
Birthplace: Essex House, London, England
Died: October 13, 1668
37
George Villiers, 4th Earl of Clarendon
(Diplomat)
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0
Listed In: Miscellaneous
Birthdate: January 12, 1800
Sun Sign: Capricorn
Birthplace: London, England
Died: June 27, 1870
38
Henry Briggs
(Mathematician)
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1
Listed In: Scientists
Birthdate: February 1, 1561
Sun Sign: Aquarius
Birthplace: Warleywood, Yorkshire, England
Died: January 26, 1630
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Edward Law, 1st Earl of Ellenborough
(Politician)
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1
Listed In: Leaders
Birthdate: September 8, 1790
Sun Sign: Virgo
Birthplace: London, England
Died: December 22, 1871
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Thomas Wriothesley, 4th earl of Southampton
(Noble)
1
0
Listed In: Miscellaneous
Birthdate: March 10, 1607
Sun Sign: Pisces
Birthplace: England, United Kingdom
Died: May 16, 1667
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George Townshend, 1st Marquess Townshend
(Military officer, Politician)
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0
Listed In: Leaders
Birthdate: February 28, 1724
Sun Sign: Pisces
Birthplace: London, England
Died: September 14, 1807
42
Thomas Thynne, 1st Marquess of Bath
(Politician)
1
0
Listed In: Leaders
Birthdate: September 13, 1734
Sun Sign: Virgo
Birthplace: Hatfield, England
Died: November 19, 1796
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Chris Brasher
(British Track and Field Athlete, Sports Journalist and Co-founder of the 'London Marathon')
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3
Listed In: Sportspersons
Birthdate: August 21, 1928
Sun Sign: Leo
Birthplace: Georgetown, Guyana
Died: February 28, 2003
44
Douglas Hartree
(Mathematician)
0
0
Listed In: Scientists
Birthdate: March 27, 1897
Sun Sign: Aries
Birthplace: Cambridge, England
Died: February 12, 1958
45
Samantha Davies
(British Sailor)
1
0
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Joseph Larmor
(British Physicist and Mathematician)
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10
Listed In: Scientists
Birthdate: July 11, 1857
Sun Sign: Cancer
Birthplace: County Antrim, Ireland
Died: May 19, 1942
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Jayne Ozanne
(British Evangelical Anglican Known for LGBT Activism)
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0
Listed In: Miscellaneous
Birthplace: Guernsey
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Augustus Edward Hough Love
(Mathematician)
0
0
Listed In: Miscellaneous
Birthdate: April 17, 1863
Sun Sign: Aries
Birthplace: Weston-super-Mare, England
Died: June 5, 1940
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William Painter
(Author)
0
0
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Edward Henry Palmer
(Explorer)
1
0
Listed In: Miscellaneous
Birthdate: August 7, 1840
Sun Sign: Leo
Birthplace: Cambridge, England
Died: August 10, 1882
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