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2005 IRA issues a statement ordering the end to the armed campaign against the British
2005 Fay Godwin, British photographer, noted for black-and-white landscapes of British coast and countryside, took portraits of literary figures, Saul Bellow, Salman Rushdie, Anthony Powell, dies at age 74, in Hastings, England 2005 Peter Benenson, British Lawyer 2004 Alan Bullock, British Historian 2003 British consulate and bank bombed in Istanbul murdering 27 2003 Hartley William Shawcross, British Lawyer 2003 Chris Brasher, British Athlete 2002 J. Lee Thompson, British Director 2002 Barbara Castle, British Politician 2002 Princess Margaret, British Royalty 2001 Mary Whitehouse, British Activist 2001 Lord Hailsham, British Politician 2001 John Walters, British Musician 2001 Auberon Waugh, British Author 2000 Cyril Clarke, British Scientist 2000 Steven Runciman, British Historian 2000 Robin Day, British Journalist 2000 129th British Golf Open: at Royal Lytham 2000 Sir John Gielgud, British actor, Arthur, dies at 96 2000 Anthony Powell, British Novelist 1999 Hugh Casson, British Architect 1999 128th British Golf Open: at Camoustie Scot 1999 William Whitelaw, British Politician 1999 Jill Dando, British Journalist 1998 Weetabix Women's British Golf Open 1998 127th British Golf Open: at Royal Birkdale 1998 Derek Harold Richard Barton, British Scientist 1998 1st time the British flag is flown over Buckingham Palace 1998 Michael Tippett, British composer (Royal Col of Music), dies at 93 1997 Bruce Woodcock, boxer, British and Empire heavyweight champion 1945 - 1950, dies at 76 1997 Richard Vernon, British actor (Gandhi, Hard Days Night), dies at 72 1997 British au pair Louise Woodward, 19, sentenced to life in death of Matthew Eappen 8 months (judge changes to time served)00690901 1997 Princess Diana, British cultural icon, dies at 36 1997 Robin Skelton, British Writer 1997 Weetabix Women's British LPGA Open 1997 Karrie Webb wins LPGA Weetabix Women's British Open 1997 Ben Hogan, golfer, Masters, British Open, U.S. Open-1953, dies at 84 1997 126th British Golf Open: Billy Ray Brown shoots a 271 at Royal Troon 1997 American Justin Leonard wins the British Open shooting at 272 1997 British model Naomi Campbell, hospitalized on drug overdose 1997 British lease on New Territories in Hong Kong expires 1997 1st all female (20 British women) team reaches North Pole 1997 Godfrey Baseley, British radio executive, dies at 92 1996 Willaim Brown, British TV executive, dies at 67 1996 Mary Leakey, British Scientist 1996 Michael Bentine, British author/comedian (Reluctant Jester), dies at 74 1996 Emilee Klein wins LPGA Weetabix Women's British Golf Open 1996 125th British Golf Open: Tom Lehman shoots a 271 at Royal Lytham 1996 Susan Cowdy, British ornithologist, dies at 81 1996 Alan Weeks, British sports commentator, dies at 72 1996 Norman Lambert, British restuarateur, dies 1996 John Abbott, British actor (Lady Jane, Quest), dies at 90 1996 O. J. Simpson appears on British TV discussing his not guilty verdict 1996 2 U.S. Marine helicopters collided during joint U.S. and British war games 1996 David Michael Ifshin, British political campaign organiser, dies at 46 1996 Simon Harcourt Nowell-Smith, British bibliophile, dies at 87 1996 British Steel in Workington wins Lithuanian multi-million pound order 1996 Barbara Lewis, British obituarist, dies at 55 1996 Bentley Bridgewater, british Museum secretary, dies at 84 1996 Record $65.2 million British lottery won by 3 people (2-3-4-13-42-44) 1995 Ellis Peters, British Author 1995 Lord Home of Hirsel, cricket (Middlesex player later British PM), dies 1995 Harry Broadhurst, British airman, dies at 89 1995 John Killan Houston Brunner, British sci-fi writer, dies at 60 1995 Kerrie Webb wins LPGA Weetabix Women's British Golf Open 1995 Danny Arnold, British TV producer, dies at 70 1995 Brian Smith, British sportscaster, dies 1995 124th British Golf Open: John Daly shoots a 282 at St. Andrews Scotland 1995 Jack Nicklaus wins Golf's British Open, 4th to win all 4 majors 1995 Thomas Dorrington Tomlinson, British national park warden, dies at 87 1995 Jean Muir, (Dress Queen), British model, dies at 66 1995 Harold Wilson, British Prime Minister (1964-70, 74-76), dies of cancer at 79 1995 Joseph Needham, British Scientist 1995 British pound hits 2.4545 to Dutch guilder (record) 1995 Ota Adler, Czechoslovakian/British fur trader (Jewish Aid Fund), dies at 83 1995 Don Cook, British foreign correspondent, dies at 74 1995 Vivian Stanshall, British musician (Magical Mystery Tour), dies at 51 1995 British trader Nick Leeson arrested for collapse of Barings Bank PLC 1995 British heavyweight Nigel Benn hits Gerard McClellan in hospital 1995 Jack Clayton, British director (Great Gatsby), dies at 73 1995 Robert Bolt, British playwright (Doctor Zhivago, Bounty), dies at 70 1995 Lord Taylor of Hadfield, British President of Taylor Woodrow Group, dies at 90 1995 Viscount Camrose, British large landowner/Conservative, dies 1995 Robert Bolt, British Playwright 1995 Wilhelm J Soukop, Austrian/British sculptor, dies at 88 1995 Betty Davis, British dance teacher of Dame Margot Fonteyn, dies 1995 Gerald M Durrell, British zoologist/author (Mockery Bird), dies at 70 1995 Raymond Joseph Cecil, British architect, dies at 69 1995 Richard Burnell, British rower, Gold Medal 1948 Olympics, dies at 77 1995 Geoffrey Parsons, Australian/British pianist, dies at 65 1995 Halsey S Colchester, British SAS/MI6-spy/priest, dies at 76 1995 Margaret Barbara Lambert, British historian (Saar), dies at 88 1995 Alexander Gibson, British conductor/founder (Scottish Opera), dies at 68 1995 Larry Grayson, British entertainer (Generation Game), dies at 65 or 71 1995 Edward Sutcliffe, judge (British Central Criminal Court), dies at 77 1995 Leonard Hirsch, British violinist and conducter, BBC Empire Orchestra, dies at 92 1995 Gerard W. Taylor, South African/British surgeon, dies at 74 1994 Shauna McDonald Brown, British TV producer, dies at 37 1994 Mollie Doreen Phillips, British figure skater (Eur-bronze-33), dies at 87 1994 Stanislaw Maczek, Polish/British general-major (WW II), dies at 102 1994 Keith Joseph, British MP (C), dies 1994 82nd CFL Grey Cup: British Columbia Lions defeat Baltimore Stallions, 26-23 1994 Dutch and British astronomers find spiral nebula Dwingeloo 1 1994 Dolly Hare, German/British actress (Broken Blossom), dies at 84 1994 Amy Clampitt, British poet, 'Silence Opens', dies at 74 1994 Last U.S., British and French troops leave West-Berlin 1994 Arthur Rex Alston, British sports commentator, dies at 93 1994 Terence Young, British director (Thunderball), dies of at 79 1994 Lindsay Anderson, British director/critic (If ...), dies at 71 1994 Nancy Keene Lancaster, US/British architect (Binnen House), dies at 96 1994 Liselotte Neumann wins LPGA Weetabix Women's British Golf Open 1994 Elias Canetti, Bulgaria/British author (Nobel 1981), dies at 89 1994 Last British troops leave Hong Kong (been there since Sept 1841) 1994 Clive Robertson Caldwell, British fighter pilot, dies at 84 1994 Anne Shelton, British singer (Glenn Miller Band), dies at 66 1994 Enid Balint-Edmonds, British psychoanalyst, dies at 90 1994 Bernard Delfont, Russian/British impresario (Thorn EMI), dies at 84 1994 123rd British Golf Open: Nick Price shoots a 268 at Turnberry Scotland 1994 Simon Prior, British auto maker, dies of injuries 1994 Dennis Potter, British TV writer (Pennies from Heaven), dies at 59 1994 Sidney Gilliat, British screenwriter/director, dies at 86 1994 Norman Cook, British museum curator, dies at 87 1994 John Smith, British Labour Party chairman (1992-94), dies at 55 1994 Labour beats Conservatives in British local elections 1994 David Langton, British actor (Upstairs Downstairs), dies at 82 1994 Keith Watson, British comic strip artist (Dan Dare), dies at 59 1994 Lee Brilleaux, British R&B-singer/guitarist (Stupidity), dies at 41 1994 Arnold Smith, British 1st Secretary-General of Commonwealth (1965-75), dies at 79 1994 Lady Caithness, wife of British undersecretary, commits suicide 1993 Alexander Mackendrick, British/US director (Lady Killers), dies at 81 1993 Philip Christison, British general (Rangoon), dies at 100 1993 British premier Major/Irish premier Reynolds signs Downing Street Declaration concerning Northern Ireland self determination 1993 James Boyden, British Labour MP (1959-79), dies at 82 1993 Leonard Parkin, British TV host (ITN), dies at 64 1993 Hew Lorimer, British sculptor, dies at 86 1993 E. P. Thompson, British Historian 1993 British Aerospace 147 crash at Yinchuan, 55 killed 1993 122nd British Golf Open: Greg Norman shoots a 267 at Royal St. George 1993 Ian Mikardo, British politician, dies 1993 Penelope Gilliatt [Conner], British author 1993 Daniel Jones, Daniel Jenkyn Jones, Welsh composer, friend of Dylan Thomas, wrote 12 numbered symphonies, chamber music, made Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 1968 1993 Leslie Charteris, British mystery writer (Saint), dies at 85 1993 Kate Reid, British actress (Lil-Dallas), dies of cancer at 62 1993 C. Northcote Parkinson, British Historian 1993 David Willis, British journalist (BBC World Service), dies at 54 1992 Kenneth MacMillan, British choreographer (Manon, Judas Tree), dies 1992 Lady Rothermere, Bubbles, wife of British newspaper magnate, dies 1992 Francisco Fernandez Ordonez, British foreign Minister to Spain (1985-92), dies 1992 Maxine Audley, British actress (Vikings, Our Man in Havana), dies at 69 1992 121st British Golf Open: Nick Faldo shoots a 272 at Muirfield Gullane 1992 Albert Pierrepont, last British executioner (433 men/17 women), dies 1992 Georgia Brown, British singer and actress (Love at Stake), dies at 58 1992 Great British postage stamp 350 year battle near Edgehill 1992 Georgia Brown, British actress (Lock up your daughters), dies at 58 1992 Elizabeth David, British cookbook writer, dies 1992 Mike Tyrell [Red Baron], British air acrobat, dies in an accident 1992 Francis Bacon, Irish/British abstract painter, dies at 82 1992 Peter D. Mitchell, British Scientist 1992 Friedrich A von Hayek, British economist (Road to Serfdom), dies at 92 1992 British Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson announce separation 1992 Charles Rea, British actor (Ipcress File), dies at 69 1992 Johnny Mack, British actor (Time Lord-Dr. Who), dies at 70 1992 Franc Holden, British astronomer (Binary Stars), dies 1992 Angela Carter, British novelist (Magic Toyshop), dies of cancer at 51 1992 Jack [John T] Aitken, British anatomist, dies at 78 1992 Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies, British actress (Eliza Dolittle), dies at 101 1992 Barbara Couper, British actress (Last Days of Dolwyn), dies at 89 1992 William JF "Bill" Naughton, Irish/British playwright (Alfie), dies at 81 1991 Ray Smith, British actor (And Then You Die), dies at 55 1991 Robert Eddison, British actor (Uncle Silas), dies at 83 1991 Alex Graham, British cartoonstrip artist (Fred Basset), dies 1991 Freddie Mercury, British singer (Queen), dies of AIDS at 45 1991 Tony Richardson, British director (Tom Jones), dies of AIDs at 63 1991 Andrzei Panufkin, Polish/British conductor and composer (Sinfonia Sacra), dies 1991 Peter Willes, British actor/producer (Way We Live), dies 1991 Mark Robinson, British actor (The Girl), dies at 30 1991 Steve Kemp, British light enterpeneur, dies 1991 Dallas Adams, British painter/writer/actor (Terror from Within), dies 1991 Vince Taylor, Brian Holden, British singer (Brand new Cadillac), dies 1991 Betty Bowden, British dancer/actress (Vote for Nigel), dies at 86 1991 Irene Campbell, British actress/dancer (Wicker Man, St. Justice), dies 1991 Shite Moslems release British hostage John McCarthy 1991 120th British Golf Open: Ian Baker-Finch shoots 272 at Royal Birkdale 1991 Joy Finzi, Joyce A Black, British painter, dies at 84 1991 Peggy Ashcroft, British actress (A passage to India), dies at 83 1991 Eva La Gailliene, British/U.S. actress/director (Resurrection), dies at 92 1991 Angus Wilson, Johnstone-W, British writer (Wrong Set), dies 1991 Peter T. Thwaites, British Brigadier-General and playwright 'Love or money', dies 1991 Queen Elizabeth becomes 1st British monarch to address U.S. congress 1991 Prudence Nesbitt, British actress/TV producer, dies 1991 Ronnie Brody, British actor (Superman III, Whats Up Nurse), dies at 72 1991 Ronnie Brody, British actor (Superman 3, What's Up Nurse), dies at 72 1991 Graham Greene, British writer (3rd Man, Our man in Havana), dies at 86 1991 Iran releases British hostage Roger Cooper after 5 years 1991 Ralph Bates, British actor (Persecution, Graveyard), dies at 50 1991 British Court of Appeal frees "Birmingham 6" who had been unjustly sentenced in August 1975 to life imprisonment 1991 Iraq releases 6 U.S., 3 British and 1 Italian POW 1991 Margot Fonteyn, ballerina (1st lady of British Ballet), dies at 71 1990 British and French workers meet in English Channel's tunnel (Chunnel) 1990 Margaret Thatcher announces her resignation as British Prime Minister 1990 Alan J P Taylor, British historian (Origins of WW II), dies 1990 Lord Caradon, British Diplomat 1990 George Adamson, British conservationist (Born Free), murdered in Kenya 1990 Ian Gow, British Conservative parliament leader, murdered 1990 119th British Golf Open: Nick Faldo shoots 270 at St. Andrews Scotland 1990 Eva Turner, British soprano, dies 1990 Emma Watson, British Actress 1989 John M Pritchard, British conductor, dies at 68 1989 TV cameras permitted in British House of Commons 1989 IRA-bomb kills 10 British marines in Kent 1989 British brewery Bass buys Holiday Inn hotel chain 1989 Ronald Laing, British psychiatrist (anti-psychiatry), dies 1989 118th British Golf Open: Mark Calcavecchia shoots a 275 at Royal Troon 1989 Daniel Radcliffe, British Actor 1989 Nigel Dennis, British Writer 1989 Retired British pilot Jack Mann is kidnapped by Islamic fundamentalists 1989 South African/British Olympic runner Zola Budd marries 1989 Bruce Chatwin, British writer, dies at 49 1989 Frank Adams, British Mathematician 1989 Edmund Leach, British Scientist 1988 Nicholas Tinbergen, Dutch/British biologist, dies at 81 1988 U.N. votes 151-2 (Isr and U.S.) to move PLO debate to Geneva, British abstains 1988 117th British Golf Open: Seve Ballesteros shoots 273 at Royal Lytham 1988 25th Curtis Cup: British Isles, 11-7 1988 James "Hamish" Hamilton, British publisher (Salinger/Mitford), dies at 87 1988 H A R (Kim) Philby, British double agent, dies 1988 Last broadcast of "Crossroads" on British TV 1988 Margaret Thatcher becomes longest-serving British Prime Minister this century 1987 Jacqueline du Pre, British cellist, dies at 42 1987 116th British Golf Open: Nick Faldo shoots a 279 at Muirfield Gullane 1987 Boy George barred from British TV show, he may be a bad influence 1987 Margaret Thatcher is 1st British Prime Minister in 160 years to win 3rd term 1987 British Airways begins trading stocks 1987 Patrick "Spike" Hughes, British jazz musician (Cinderella), dies at 78 1987 Hart Foundation beat British Bulldogs for WWF tag team title 1986 John Braine, British Novelist 1986 1st edition British newspaper "Independent" begins publishing 1986 115th British Golf Open: Greg Norman shoots a 280 at Turnberry Scotld 1986 Stanley Rous, British soccer official, dies at 91 1986 Margaret Thatcher becomes 1st British Prime Minister to visit Israel 1986 British Defense Secretary Michael Heseltine resigns 1986 Christopher Isherwood, British writer (Lions and Shadows), dies at 81 1985 Rodney Robert Porter, British Scientist 1985 114th British Golf Open: Sandy Lyle shoots a 282 at Royal St. George 1985 Charlie Simpson, British Musician 1985 Alister Hardy, British Scientist 1985 Richard Haydn, British actor (Mutiny on the Bounty), dies at 80 1984 Paul Dirac, British Physicist 1984 Ayako Okamoto wins LPGA Hitachi Ladies British Golf Open 1984 Henry Charles Albert David, Prince of Wales, 3rd in British succession 1984 Bernard Youens, British actor (Coronation Street), dies at 69 1984 J. B. Priestley, British Writer 1984 James Mason, British actor (Lolita), dies of a heart attack at 75 1984 Steve Ballesteros wins British Open 1984 113th British Golf Open: Seve Ballesteros shoots a 276 at St. Andrews 1984 Gareth Gates, British Musician 1984 Eric Morecambe, British comedian (Morecambe and Wise), dies at 58 1984 Peter Bull, British actor (Dr. Doolittle), dies of a heart attack at 72 1984 Lionel Charles Robbins, British economist, dies at 85 1984 Basil Henry Blackwell, British publisher, dies 1984 Jimmy Kenndy, British songwriter (South of the Border), dies 1984 Arthur Travors Harris, marshal of British RAF, dies 1984 Kenneth Whitty, 1st sec at British Embassy in Athens, shot dead 1984 British ice dancing team, Torvill and Dean, become 1st skaters to receive 9 perfect 6.0s in world championships 1983 Bill Brandt, British Photographer 1983 British Airways incorporates 1983 Mary Renault [Challans], British author (Funeral games), dies at 78 1983 John Le Mesurier, British actor (Jabberwocky, Dad's Army), dies at 71 1983 112th British Golf Open: Tom Watson shoots a 275 at Royal Birkdale 1983 Lee Ryan, British Musician 1983 Margaret Thatchers Conservative Party wins British parliamentary election 1983 Desmond Bagley, British Journalist 1983 Anthony F Blunt, British art historian/spy for U.S.S.R., dies at 75 1983 Arthur Koestler, Hungarian/British writer (Dialogue With Death), dies at 77 1983 Dutch/British infrared satellite IRAS launched from California 1983 British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher visits Falkland Islands 1982 Arthur Askey, British comedian, dies at 82 1982 Edward H Carr, British historian, dies at 90 1982 Billie Piper, British Actress 1982 Douglas Bader, British Soldier 1982 111th British Golf Open: Tom Watson shoots a 284 at Royal Troon 1982 Natasha Hamilton, British Musician 1982 Kenneth More, British actor (Genevieve), dies of Parkinson disease at 67 1982 Margaret Thatcher begins her 2nd term as British prime minster 1982 Marie Rambert, Cyviam Ramberg, Polish/British ballerina, dies at 94 1982 Reagan addresses joint session of British Parliament 1982 British ship Atlantic Conveyor and Coventry were hit in Falkland war 1982 British troops lands on Falkland Islands 1982 British torpedo boat Sheffield off Falkland hit by Exocet rocket 1982 Falklands War: Argentine cruiser General Belgrano sunk by British submarine Conqueror, killing more than 350 men 1982 Celia Johnson, British actress (Jean Brodie), dies of stroke at 73 1982 Canada Constitution Act replaces British North America Act 1982 British fleet sails to Falkland Islands 1982 Lord Carrington, British foreign sect resigns due to Falkland Is war 1982 Edmund Cooper, British sci-fi writer (Tomorrow Came), dies at 55 1981 Belize (British Honduras) gains independence from U.K. 1981 Elize Du Toit, British Actress 1981 Paul Brunton, British Philosopher 1981 110th British Golf Open: Bill Rogers shoots a 276 at Royal St. George 1981 Imprisoned IRA hunger striker Bobby Sands elected to British Parliament 1981 Claude Auchinleck, British Soldier 1981 Bill Hopkins, British composer, music critic, teacher, pianist, studied at Oxford University with Egon Wellesz and Edmund Rubbra, taught at Birmingham University and University of Newcastle upon Tyne 1981 British team led by Ranulph Fiennes completes longest and fastest crossing of Antarctica, reaching Scott base after 75 days (2,500 miles) 1981 British police arrest Peter Sutcliffe, a truck driver later convicted of "Yorkshire Ripper" murders of 13 women 1981 British police arrest Peter Sutcliffe, the "Yorkshire Ripper" 1980 Anguilla becomes a British dependency separate from St. Kitts 1980 British Leyland starts selling Mini Metro 1980 109th British Golf Open: Tom Watson shoots a 271 at Muirfield Gullane 1980 Gregory Bateson, British Scientist 1980 Charles Percy Snow, British writer (Friends and Associates), dies at 75 1980 Siege at Iranian Embassy in London ends; British commandos and police stormed the building 1980 Alfred Joseph Hitchcock, British director (Psycho, Birds), dies at 80 1980 Oskar Kokoschka, Austria/British painter/graphic artist, dies at 93 1980 Cecil Beaton, British photographer, dies at 76 1979 British government identifies Sir Anthony Blunt as 4th man in Soviet spy ring 1979 British newspaper "Times" resumes publishing after 1 year 1979 Sophie Dahl, British Model 1979 18 British militia die in ambush/bomb attack in Northern Ireland 1979 Louis Mountbatten, British Admiral of the Fleet, assassinated by IRA 1979 English seaside resort Brighton gets 1st British nude beach 1979 108th British Golf Open: Seve Ballesteros shoots a 283 at Royal Lytham 1979 Herbert Butterfield, British Historian 1979 IRA-bomb explodes in British consulate in Antwerp 1979 Airey Neave, British MP (Conservatives), killed by terrorist bomb 1979 British government of Callaghan falls 1979 ... Sykes, British ambassador in The Hague, murdered 1979 Walter Legge, British Businessman 1979 Richard Sykes, British ambassador, assassinated in Holland 1978 Khomeini followers attack British embassy/El Al office in Iran 1978 British pop magazine "Smash Hits," 1st published 1978 Nicolas Bentley, British Author 1978 107th British Golf Open: Jack Nicklaus shoots a 281 at St. Andrews 1978 Rutles "All You Need is Cash" is shown on British TV 1978 Paul Scott, British Novelist 1978 Louise Woodward, British Celebrity 1978 Jenny Frost, British Musician 1978 Reginald Maudling, British Politician 1977 Clementine O Spencer-Churchill (Hozier), British barones, dies at 92 1977 Peter Mark Andrew Phillips, 9th in succession to British throne 1977 Ken Hinton of CFL British Columbia Lions returns a punt 130 yards 1977 106th British Golf Open: Tom Watson shoots a 268 at Turnberry Scotland 1977 British Virgin Islands adopts constitution 1977 British Aerospace forms 1977 Anthony Crosland, British Politician 1977 Anthony Eden, British premier (1955-57), dies at 79 1976 Benjamin Britten, British composer (Beggar's Opera), dies at 63 1976 Battle East Sussex: Mary Langdon becomes 1st British firewoman 1976 Rhona Mitra, British Actress 1976 Christopher Ewart-Biggs, British ambassador to Ireland, assassinated 1976 105th British Golf Open: Johnny Miller shoots a 279 at Royal Birkdale 1976 Bernard L Montgomery, British general, defeated Rommel, dies at 88 1976 British premier Harold Wilson resigns 1976 British pounds falls below $2 for 1st time 1976 Margaret Leighton, British actress (Much ado about nothing), dies at 53 1976 Emma Bunton, British Musician 1975 British government sends troops to Belize 1975 Arnold J. Toynbee, British Historian 1975 104th British Golf Open: Tom Watson shoots a 279 at Carnoustie 1975 British voters decide to remain in Common Market 1975 British population agrees to European Common Market membership 1975 Jamie Oliver, British Celebrity 1975 Denise Van Outen, British Actress 1975 Greg Moore, born in New Westminster, British Columbia, promising Canadian racecar driver, competed in Indy Lights, CART World Series 1975 Michael Flanders, British Actor 1975 Margaret Thatcher elected leader of British Conservative Party 1975 14 die when British freighter "Lake Illawarra" rams pylon bridge between Derwent and Hobart, Tasmania and ship sinks 1975 Robert Neumann, Austrian/British author (False Flag), dies at 77 1974 2nd cease-fire between IRA and British; lasts until approx April 1975 1974 British Lord Lucan disappears 1974 Louise Nurding, British Musician 1974 Labour Party wins British parliamentary election 1974 Jacob Bronowsky, British mathematician/cultural historian, dies at 66 1974 Ivor Dean, British actor (Theatre of Death), dies at 57 1974 103rd British Golf Open: Gary Player shoots a 282 at Royal Lytham 1974 Patrick MS Blackett, British physicist (Nobel 1948), dies at 76 1974 Harold Wilson replaces resigning Ed Heath as British premier 1974 Labour Party wins British parliamentary election 1974 Robbie Williams, British Musician 1974 British mine strike 1974 Edmund Blunden, British poet/critic, dies at 77 1973 Wystan H Auden, British/U.S. writer (Spain/Platonic Blow), dies at 66 1973 A S Neill, British headmaster, dies at at 89 1973 John R R Tolkien, British story writer (Hobbitt), dies of ulcer at 81 1973 102nd British Golf Open: Tom Weiskopf shoots a 276 at Royal Troon 1973 Melinda Penn, Miss British virgin islands Universe, 1997 1973 Jack Davenport, British Actor 1973 British Darts Organisation founded in North London 1972 Jonny Lee Miller, British Actor 1972 Thandie Newton, British Actress 1972 Vicki Goetze, Michicot WI, LPGA golfer, 1995 British Open-12th 1972 Liam Gallagher, British Musician 1972 British harbor strike ends 1972 Bloody Sunday: British soldiers fire into crowd, kill 13 1972 Geri Halliwell, British Musician 1972 British premier Heath proclaims emergency crisis due to harbor strike 1972 101st British Golf Open: Lee Trevino shoots 278 at Muirfield Gullane 1972 Bangladesh becomes a member of British Commonwealth 1972 British Parliament votes to join European Common Market 1972 British Government declares state of emergency after month-long miners' strike 1972 Bloody Sunday: British soldiers shoot on catholics in Londonderry, 13 die 1972 Pakistan withdraws from the British Commonwealth 1972 Jill McGill, born in Denver, Colorado, LPGA golfer, 1995 British Open-2nd 1971 Dido Armstrong, British Musician 1971 Emily Mortimer, British Actress 1971 A. P. Herbert, British novelist, humorist, playwright and activist at age 81 1971 Stella McCartney, British Designer 1971 David Walliams, British Actor 1971 Bahrain proclaims independence after 110 years of British rule 1971 100th British Golf Open: Lee Trevino shoots a 278 at Royal Birkdale 1971 British and Argentina sign accord about Falkland Islands 1971 Rachel Weisz, British Actress 1971 Stevie Smith, British Poet 1971 Amanda Holden, British Actress 1971 British car maker Rolls Royce declared itself bankrupt 1970 British newspaper Sun puts 1st pinup girl on pg 3 (Stephanie Rahn) 1970 Caledonian Airways takes over British United Airways 1970 Quebec separatists kidnap British trade commissioner James Cross 1970 99th British Golf Open: Jack Nicklaus shoots a 283 at St. Andrews 1970 British aircraft crashes at Barcelona, 112 killed 1970 Christopher Nolan, British Director 1970 British government of Edward Heath forms, with Margaret Thatcher 1970 Conservatives win British parliamentary election 1970 Edward M Forster, British writer (Maurice, passage to India), dies at 91 1970 British expedition climbs south face of Annapurna I 1970 Joseph Fiennes, British Actor 1970 Simon Pegg, British Comedian 1970 Bertrand Russell, philosopher, British MP, dies in Merioneth at 97 1970 B. H. Liddell Hart, British Historian 1970 Max Born, German/British physicist (Nobel 1954), dies at 87 1969 British House of Commons votes 343-185 abolishing the death penalty 1969 P. J. Harvey, also known as Polly Jean Harvey, British Musician 1969 Catriona Matthew, Edinburgh Scotland, golfer, 1995 British Open-12th 1969 British troops intervene militarily in Northern Ireland 1969 Leonard Woolf, British Author 1969 98th British Golf Open: Tony Jacklin shoots a 280 at Royal Lytham 1969 Colin Greenwood, British Musician 1969 Harold RLG 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis, British field marshal, dies at 78 1969 John and Yoko appear on David Frost's British TV Show 1969 British liner Queen Elizabeth II leaves on maiden voyage to New York 1969 Bernadette Devlin elected to British house of commons 1969 British invade Anguilla 1969 Boris Karloff, Pratt, British actor (Frankenstein), dies at 81 1969 Naveen Andrews, British Actor 1969 Stephen Hendry, British snookers player 1968 Wendy Doolan, Sydney Australia, LPGA golfer, 1991 British Amat Champ-2nd 1968 Mervyn Peake, British Writer 1968 Guy Ritchie, British Director 1968 Dominic West, British Actor 1968 Catherine Bell, British Model 1968 Lilian Harvey, British actress (Congress Dances), dies 1968 97th British Golf Open: Gary Player shoots 289 at Carnoustie Scotland 1968 Randolph Churchill, British Journalist 1968 British minister of Foreign affairs George Brown resigns 1968 Anthony Asquith, British director (Court Martial), dies at 65 1968 British adopts year-round daylight savings time 1968 Warren Ellis, British Author 1968 Lawson Little, amateur golfer (U.S./British Opens 1934,35), dies at 57 1967 British troops withdraw from Aden and South Yemen 1967 British government devalues pounds from U.S. equivalent of $2.80 to $2.40 1967 1st local British radio station begins broadcasting (Radio Leicester) 1967 Susan Tulley, British actress, Michelle-EastEnders 1967 Clement Atlee, British Statesman 1967 British liner Queen Elizabeth II launched at Clydebank, Scotland 1967 Gibraltar votes 12,138 to 44 to remain British and not Spanish 1967 Roberto DeVicenzo of Argentina wins golf's British Open 1967 1st British color TV broadcast, on BBC 2 1967 Emma Anderson, British Musician 1967 Arthur W. Tedder of Glenguin, British air marshal (WW II), dies at 76 1967 1st British ombudsman sir Edward Compton begins work 1967 Nick Leeson, British banker, Baring bank 1967 Nicholas Gillingham, British swimmer, world record 200m freestyle 1966 Douglas Vipond, British pop drummer, Deacon Blue-Raintown 1966 1st British nuclear sub HMS Resolution launched 1966 Edward Gordon Craig, British Actor 1966 95th British Golf Open: Jack Nicklaus shoots 282 at Muirfield Gullane 1966 Arthur D Waley, Schloss, British sinology/poet (Monkey), dies 1966 Samuel West, British Actor 1966 Guyana (formerly British Guiana) declares independence from UK 1966 Helena Bonham Carter, British Actress 1966 Last British concert by Beatles (Empire Pool in Wembley) 1966 John Patrick Daly, born in born in Sacramento, California, PGA golfer, 1995 British Open 1966 Evelyn Waugh, British writer (Black Mischief), dies at 62 1966 Labour Party wins British parliamentary election 1966 Karen Lunn, born in Cowra, Australia, LPGA golfer, 1993 Women's British Open 1966 Alecia Stephenson, born in North Vancouver, British Columbia, softball ss 1996 Olympics 1966 Alan Davies, British Actor 1966 North Sea Gas was 1st pumped ashore by British Petroleum 1965 British government proclaims ends oil-embargo against Rhodesia 1965 W. Somerset Maugham, British Playwright 1965 British Indian Ocean Territory formed 1965 Gavin Rossdale, British Musician 1965 Steve Coogan, British Comedian 1965 [John] Selwyn (Brooke) Lloyd, British statesman, dies 1965 Queen Elizabeth decorates Beatles with Order of British Empire 1965 Elizabeth Lane becomes 1st female British supreme court justice 1965 Sam Mendes, British Director 1965 Cigarette Ads banned on British TV 1965 Rock group "Animals" 1st time on British charts 1965 Edward Heath succeeds Alec Douglas-Hume as leader of British Cons party 1965 94th British Golf Open: Peter Thomson shoots a 285 at Royal Birkdale 1965 Suzanne Peta Strudwick, born in Knutsford, England, golfer, 1995 British Open-7th 1965 Nigel Short, British Celebrity 1965 Norman Whiteside, British soccer player 1965 Howard Spring, British author (Heaven Lies About Us), dies at 76 1965 Andrew Jameson, British swimmer 1965 27 copper miners die in avalanche, Granduc Mountain, British Columbia 1965 The Who make their 1st appearance on British TV 1965 Richard Dunwoody, British jockey 1965 Joely Richardson, British Actress 1965 Vinnie Jones, British Athlete 1964 Edith Sitwell, British Poet 1964 British Labour Party installs weapon embargo against South Africa 1964 Harold Wilson's Labour party wins British election 1964 Final edition of socialist British newspaper "Daily Herald" 1964 Ian Fleming, British journalist and creator of 'James Bond', dies at 56 1964 Erwin F Finlay-Freundlich, British astronomer, dies 1964 Steve Ballesteros wins British Golf Open 1964 Craig Charles, British Actor 1964 Mike Edwards, British rock vocalist, Jesus Jones-Devil you Know 1964 Boris Johnson, British Politician 1964 Jack Nicklaus wins British Open golf tournament 1964 Adrian Moorhouse, British 100m breaststroker, Gold Medal 1988 Olympics 1964 Elizabeth McColgan, British running star, world record 5 km indoor 1964 Lorraine McIntosh, British pop singer, Deacon Blue-Fellow Hoodlums 1964 Nancy Astor, British Politician 1964 Ewen Vernal, British pop bassist, Deacon Blue-Your Town 1963 Kenya (formerly British East Africa) declares independence from UK 1963 Zanzibar becomes independent within British Commonwealth 1963 Robert Hamer, British Director 1963 "Doctor Who," the long-running British sci-fi series debuts in England 1963 John Barnes, British soccer player 1963 Alec Douglas-Home forms British government 1963 British premier Harold MacMillan, resigns 1963 Uganda becomes a republic within British Commonwealth 1963 Mervyn A Ellison, British astronomer (spectrohelioscope), dies at 63 1963 Louis MacNeice, British Poet 1963 Guy Burgess, British spy for the U.S.S.R. 1963 British spy Kim Philby found in Moscow 1963 Gerald Vann, British Theologian 1963 George Michael [Panos], British rock vocalist, Wham-I Want Your Sex 1963 George Michael, British Musician 1963 British House of Commons debates Profumo-Christine Keeler affair 1963 John Whiting, British dramatist/actor (Devils), dies 1963 Andrew Browne, Irish/British Admiral (Cape Matapan, WW II), dies at 80 1963 British Minister of War John Profumo resigns due to Christine Keeler 1963 Alessandra Ferri, British ballerina, American Ballet Theater 1963 British Minister of War John Profumo denies having sex with Christine Keeler 1963 Deborah Bull, British Dancer 1963 Beatles began 1st British tour, supporting Tommy Roe and Chris Montez 1963 Todd "Hugh" Gaitskell, leader British Labour Party, dies at 56 1963 Beatles top British rock charts with "Please, Please Me" 1963 Paul Way, born in Kingsbury, Middlesex, British golfer, won Brabazon Trophy, 1981, turned pro in 1982, won KLM Dutch Open while on the European Tour, second youngest Ryder Cup player in 1983, and 1985, finished in the top 100 in 1993, on the Order of Merit, after 1997, his participation in tournament golf waned 1963 Martin Bashir, British Journalist 1962 Beatles 1st British TV appearance (People and Places) 1962 Tanganyika becomes a republic within British Commonwealth 1962 Cary Elwes, British Actor 1962 S C Grant, British Lieutenant-General 1962 Jack Dee, British Comedian 1962 Jamaica becomes independent after 300 years of British rule 1962 Corinne Dibnah, born in Brisbane, Australia, LPGA golfer, 1988 British Open 1962 91st British Golf Open: Arnold Palmer shoots a 276 at Royal Troon 1962 1st flight Vickers (British Aerospace) VC-10 long-range airliner 1962 Eugene Goossens, British composer (Perseus), dies at 69 1962 British Antarctic Territory forms 1962 U.S. / British nuclear test experiment in Nevada 1962 Eddie Izzard, British Comedian 1962 British spy Kim Philby defects to U.S.S.R. 1961 John F. Kennedy and British Prime Minister MacMillan meet in Bermuda 1961 British government begins decimal coin system 1961 Sarah Sutton, British Actress 1961 Frank Bruno, British boxer, European champ 1961 Jill Dando, British Journalist 1961 Hurricane Hattie, kills 400 in British Honduras 1961 Tanganyika becomes independent within British Commonwealth 1961 Antonia De Sancha, born in London, England, lover of British MP David Mellor 1961 Tom Holt, born in London, author, British novelist, writes mythopoeic novels that parody mythology, history, literature 1961 Jared Harris, British Actor 1961 90th British Golf Open: Arnold Palmer shoots a 284 at Royal Birkdale 1961 Princess Diana, British Royalty 1961 Alison Moyet, British Musician 1961 Jay Aston, London, England, singer, youngest member of British pop group, Bucks Fizz, founded Jay Aston Theatre Arts School 1961 Richard Phelps, British pentathelete 1961 British liner "Dara" explodes in Persian Gulf, kills 236 1961 Michael Winterbottom, British Director 1961 South Africa leaves British Commonwealth 1961 South Africa withdraws from British Commonwealth 1961 George Formby, British singer/comedian, dies at 56 1961 Anthony G de Rothschild, British philanthropist, dies at 73 1961 British minister Enoch Powell makes medical insurance more expensive 1960 Carol Vorderman, British Entertainer 1960 1st broadcast of "Coronation Street" on British ITV 1960 Jonathan Ross, British talk show host, Tall Guy 1960 Neil Gaiman, British Author 1960 James Prime, British rock keyboardist, Deacon Blue-Pay Day 1960 Ian Baker-Finch, Nambour Queensland, PGA golfer, 1991 British Open 1960 1st British nuclear sub Dreadnought launched 1960 Richard Jobson, British TV person/rocker, Skids-Scared to Dance 1960 British Labour party demands unilateral nuclear disarmament 1960 Harry St. John Philby, sheik Abdullah, British explorer, dies 1960 Nick della Casa, British/Brazillian/Argentine cameraman, Emmy Award 1960 Melanie Klein, Austria/British psycho analyst, dies at 78 1960 British Somaliland becomes Somalia 1960 British Somaliland becomes part of Somalia 1960 British Somaliland (now Somalia) gains independence from Britain 1960 Peter Winterbottom, British rugby player 1960 Nigeria becomes a member of British Commonwealth 1960 Jonathan Agnew, British broadcaster and test bowler 1960 Dornford Yates, British Novelist 1960 F S Flint, British translator/poet (imagist movement), dies at 74 1960 Cindy Figg-Currier, Mount Pleasant, Michigan, golfer, 1994 British Open-6th 1960 John Galliano, British Designer 1960 Nigella Lawson, British Journalist 1959 Andy McNab, British Novelist 1959 Charles Kennedy, British Politician 1959 Conservatives win British election 1959 Simon Cowell, British Entertainer 1959 Kay Kendall, British actress (Genevieve), dies of leukemia at 32 1959 Jeanette Winterson, British Novelist 1959 88th British Golf Open: Gary Player shoots a 284 at Muirfield Gullane 1959 Julie Burchill, British Journalist 1959 Morrissey, British rock vocalist, Everyday is Like Sunday 1959 Mike Lindup, British rock keyboardist/singer, Level 42-Hot Water 1959 British government arrests Hastings Banda of Nyasaland, ends emergency crisis 1959 Ali Campbell, British reggae vocalist and guitarist, UB40-Red Red Wine 1959 Sammy Lee, British soccer player 1959 Earl Falconer, British reggae bassist, UB40-Red Red Wine 1958 Terry Butcher, British soccer player 1958 Limahl, British rocker, Kajagoogoo-Too Shy 1958 Nick Park, British Director 1958 Friedrich Adolf Paneth, Austrian/British chemist, dies at 71 1958 Lenny Henry, British comedian, 3 of a Kind 1958 Alvin Martin, British Athlete 1958 87th British Golf Open: Peter Thomson shoots a 278 at Royal Lytham 1958 Alfred Noyes, British poet/essayist (Robin Hood), dies at 77 1958 British parachutists lands on Cyprus 1958 Ronald Colman, British actor (Prisoner of Zenda), dies at 67 1958 Philip Bainbridge, British cricketeer 1958 British Empire Day is renamed "Commonwealth Day" 1958 Henry M Tomlinson, British writer (Under red ensign), dies at 84 1958 Maureen Madill, born in Coleraine, Nothern Ireland, golfer, British Open Amateur 1979 1958 Norman Lamont Hassan, British reggae musician, UB40-Red Red Wine 1958 Beatrice Webb, British Sociologist 1957 Ricky Ross, British rock vocalist, Deacon Blue-Raintown 1957 Dorothy L. Sayers, British Author 1957 James Brown, British reggae singer/drummer, UB40-Red Red Wine 1957 Glenn Hoddle, British Athlete 1957 Vere G Childe, British archaeologist/prehistorian, dies at 65 1957 Accident at British nuclear reactor in Windsdale 1957 Mari Wilson, British singer 1957 Pete Jones, born near Watford, England, rocker, British bass guitarist, member of Public Image Ltd. 1957 Keith Connor, Anguilla, British triple jumper 1984 Olympics bronze 1957 British soccer player Jimmy Greaves' (17) 1st game for Chelsea 1957 Stephen Fry, British Comedian 1957 Jim "Bullseye" Bowen, British TV game show host 1957 British offensive against imam Galeb Ben Ali of Oman 1957 Nicholas Alexander Faldo, born in England, PGA golfer, 1992 British Open 1957 Marc Almond, British Musician 1957 Harold MacMillan becomes British PM 1957 Anthony Eden resigns as British PM 1957 Stephen Jones, British milliner 1957 Gilbert Murray, British Diplomat 1957 1st British H-bomb explosion (over Christmas Island) 1957 Ignatius Roy D Campbell, British poet (Garcia Lorca), dies at 54 1957 Severlano Ballesteros, born in Spain, golfer, British Open 1979, 84, 88 1957 Graeme Kelling, British pop guitarist, Deacon Blue-Real Gone Kid 1957 Jane Ackroyd, British sculptor 1957 Leslie Hore-Belisha, Lord Halifax, British Minister of Transport, dies at 63 1957 Bienvenida Buck, Velencia Spain, lover of British Peter Harding 1957 Paul Merton, British Comedian 1957 British premier Anthony Eden resigns 1956 Last British/French troops leave Egypt 1956 Patrick Murray, British Actor 1956 Charles Moore, British editor-in-chief, Sunday Telegraph 1956 Sebastian Coe, British Politician 1956 Jaki Graham, British personality 1956 British government sends 3 aircraft carriers to Egypt 1956 85th British Golf Open: Peter Thomson shoots a 286 at Hoylake England 1956 3rd class travel on British Railways ends 1956 Gary Wilmot, British? entertainer 1956 Lionel K P "Buster" Crabb, British diver (WW II), dies at 47 1956 Andrew Mitchell, British MP 1956 Phillip Oppenhein, British MP 1956 Tessa Sanderson, born in Kingston, Jamaica, British javelin thrower 1984 Olympics gold 1956 1st British soccer match at Kunstlicht: Portsmouth vs Newcastle United 1956 Liam Brady, British soccer player 1956 Siegfried F Nadel, Australia/British anthropologist (Nuba), dies at 52 1955 1st prototype of hovercraft patented by British engineer Christoper Cockerell 1955 British transfer Cocos (Keeling) Is in Indian Ocean to Australia 1955 British troops occupy Saudi-Arabic oil field at Boeraimi 1955 Steven Severin, British pop bassist, Siouxsie and Banshees-Wild Thing 1955 Christine Oddy, British member European parliament 1955 Leopold C M S Amery, British minister of Colonies (India), dies at 81 1955 Robert Blackburn, British aviation pioneer, dies at 70 1955 David Jasper, British principal, St. Chad's College Durham England 1955 Timothy Garton Ash, British Author 1955 Ben de Lisi, British fashion designer 1955 Conservatives win British parliamentary election 1955 John Nunn, British chess player 1955 Mike Smith, born in Britain, British DJ, radio presenter, racing car driver, pilot, businessman, Breakfast Show Presenter of BBC Radio One 1986 - 1988, used on-air nickname 'Smithy' 1955 Winston Churchill resigns as British Prime Minister, Anthony Eden succeeds him 1955 Janice Long, British radio host, Crash FM 1955 British government signs military treaty with Iraq 1955 EOKA-bomb attacks against British government buildings in Cyprus 1955 British aircraft carrier Ark Royal sets sail 1955 Clive Aslet, British editor, Country Life 1954 Rosie Vela, British singer, Zazu, Fools Paradise 1954 Robin Campbell, British reggae vocalist and guitarist, UB40-Red Red Wine 1954 Louis de Bernieres, British Novelist 1954 Egypt and Great Britain sign treaty; British troops departs 1954 British colony of Nigeria becomes a federation 1954 Anne Mcintosh, British member European parliament 1954 George Galloway, British Politician 1954 Alan [Joseph] Lamb, South African/British cricket player, Northampton 1954 Alan M Turing, British mathematician (Turing), commits suicide at 41 1954 Labour Party wins British municipal elections 1954 British raid Nairobi Kenya (25,000 Mau Mau suspects arrested) 1954 Trevor Francis, British soccer manager 1954 Iain Duncan Smith, British Politician 1954 Francis B Young, British physician/writer (In South Africa), dies at 69 1954 Piers Gardner, director, British Institute of International and Comparative Law 1954 Martin Dunn, British editor, Today 1954 Trevor Rabin, born in South Africa, musician, guitarist, singer, songwriter, member of Yes, a progressive British rock band, film composer 1953 Trevor Phillips, British Politician 1953 Geoff Hoon, British Politician 1953 Alan Moore, British Writer 1953 Griff Rhys Jones, British humorist/actor, Morons From Outer Space 1953 Peter Mandelson, British Politician 1953 British premier Winston Churchill aproves Guyanese Constitution 1953 Arnold Bax, British composer, dies at 69 1953 Arnold Edward Trevor Bax, British composer (Coronation March), dies at 69 1953 Roger Quilter, British composer, dies at 75 1953 Julian Brazier, born in Kent, England, British politician, Conservative Member of Parliament for Canterbury 1953 82nd British Golf Open: Ben Hogan shoots a 282 at Carnoustie Dai Rees 1953 Francis Maude, British Politician 1953 Victoria Wood, British Comedian 1953 David Maclean, British minister of state 1953 Tony Blair, British Prime Minister, Labour, 1997- 1953 Edward B B Shanks, British poet/critic, dies at 60 1953 1st general elections in British Guyana, won by Jagans PPP 1953 British royal yacht Britannia taken out of service 1953 Stephen Byers, born in Wolverhampton, England, British politician, Labour Member of Parliament for Tyneside North 1953 David Moorcroft, British athlete 1953 Geoffrey Clifton-Brown, British MP 1953 Peter McEvoy, British actor, Against the Innocent 1953 Judi Spiers, born in Britain, Judith Marilyn Spiers, British radio and television presenter, hosted Mr TSW and Miss TSW local beauty contests for new south-west station TSW, appeared in six editions of daytime chat show, presented on Open Air, a BBC1 access television program, in 1986, and Pebble Mill program 1992- 1995, presenter, BBC Radio Devon since 2005 1953 Edward Marsh, British Editor 1952 David Knopfler, British Musician 1952 1st British nuclear test at Monte Bello Is Australia 1952 Glenn Hughes, British Musician 1952 Alexei Sayle, British Comedian 1952 7th Curtis Cup: British Isles, 5-4 1952 David Amess, born in London, England, British politician, Conservative, Member of Parliament for Southend West 1952 Philip Green, British Businessman 1952 King George VI, British Royalty 1952 British army occupies Ismailiya, Suez Canal Zone 1951 Richard Skinner, born in Portsmouth, England, British DJ, radio and television broadcaster, lead presenter on flagship programs 'Top of the Pops', 'Top 40 Show', 'Whistle Test' 1951 Future British Prime Minister Margaret Roberts Thatcher marries Denis Thatcher 1951 Winston Churchill re-elected British premier 1951 British auto manufacturers Austin/Moris Motors merge 1951 Graham Price, British rugby player 1951 British troops occupies Ismailiya Egypt 1951 Winston Churchill re-elected British Prime Minister 1951 Egyptian army fires on British troops 1951 Henry Gurney, British high commissioner to Malaya, assassinated 1951 British begins economic boycott of Iran 1951 John Deacon, British pop guitarist, Queen-Somebody to Love 1951 David Jasper, British principal, St. Chad's College Durham England 1951 British diplomats Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean flee to U.S.S.R. 1951 John Salthouse, British actor, American Werewolf in London 1951 John Redwood, British Politician 1951 John Conteh, born in Liverpool, England, athlete, former British boxer, world light-heavyweight boxing champion 1951 Simon Hughes, born in Cheshire, England, British politician, Liberal Member of Parliament of North Southwark and Bermondsey 1951 Lynne Jones, born in Birmingham, England, British politician, Labour party, Member of Parliament for Birmingham Selly Oak 1951 Ian McCartney, born in Dumbartonshire, Scotland, British politician, Member of Parliament for Makerfield 1951 Louise Jameson, British Actress 1951 British submarine Affray sank in English Channel, killing 75 1951 James I Wedgwood, British theosophist/Catholic bishop, dies at 67 1951 Ivor Novello, British writer (Keep the Home Fires Burning), dies at 58 1951 Kenny Dalglish, British soccer star, 100+ goals 1951 Kevin Keegan, British soccer player/manager, Newcastle United 1951 Presiley Baxendale, British QC 1951 Earl Howe, born in England, British politician, Conservative, front bench member, House of Lords, Health spokesman 1951 9 Jewish Kremlin physicians "exposed" as British/U.S. agents 1950 Ernest John Moeran, British composer, dies at 55 1950 Egyptian king Faruk demands departure of all British troops 1950 British minister of Finance Stafford Cripps resigns 1950 Terry Buffin, rock drummer, British Lions 1950 Paul Burgess, British drummer, 10cc-Not Alone 1950 U.S. Mustangs accidentally bombs British on Hill 282 Korea, 17 killed 1950 Barry Sheene, British auto maker 1950 John C Smuts, co-found British RAF/South African Prime Minister 1919 - 1948, dies at 80 1950 Richard Branson, British music enterperneur, Virgin Atlantic 1950 Bruce Oldfield, British mode-designer 1950 79th British Golf Open: Bobby Locke shoots a 279 at Royal Troon 1950 David Jensen, born in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, David 'Kid' Jensen, popular British radio DJ, played progressive music, hosted BBC pop network, Radio 1, Top of the Pops presenter, interviewed Duran Duran, promoted The Police before they were commercially successful 1950 Archibald Wavell, British Soldier 1950 Keith Bradley, born in Birmingham, England, British politician, life peer, Labour Member of Parliament for Manchester Withington 1950 1st edition of British strip "Eagle" 1950 Leonard van Spirit, Dutch/British fruit and food magnate 1950 Mary Tamm, British actress, Odessa File 1950 Joe Bugner, Hungarian/British/Australian boxer, European Champ 1971 1950 Stephen Chatman, born in Faribault, Minnesota, Canadian composer, received Fulbright grant for study at Hochschule fur Misik in Cologne, since 1976 has served as professor and Head of the Composition Division at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver 1950 Julia Neuberger, British Rabbi 1950 Labour wins British parliamentary election 1950 Michael Dickinson, British reorganizer 1950 India becomes a republic ceaseing to be a British dominion 1950 Swedish tanker rams British submarine Truculent in Thames, 64 die 1950 Morgan Fisher, rock keyboardist, British Lions 1949 Ray Shulman, born in Portsmouth, England, born Raymond Schulman, musician, record producer, member of Gentle Giant, British progressive rock band, produced records for The Sugarcubes 1949 India adopts a constitution as a British Commonwealth Republic 1949 Dennis Taylor, British snooker champion 1949 Peter Ackroyd, British Author 1949 Tom Watson, born in Kansas City, Missouri, golfer, British Open 1975, 77, 80, 82, 83 1949 Martin Amis, British Author 1949 British warship HMS Amethyst escape down Yangtze River, having been refused a safe passage by Chinese Communists after 3-month standoff 1949 Roger Taylor, British rock drummer, Queen-Bohemian Rhapsody 1949 Ray Major, rock guitarist, British Lions 1949 Helen Rosenthal, British teacher/health administrator 1949 Ingrid Newkirk, British Activist 1949 Douglas Henderson, British MP 1949 British government grants Cyrenaica (East-Libya) independence 1949 Rosalind Plowright, British soprano, Aida, Senta 1949 British government recognizes Republic of Ireland 1949 Timothy Cordy, British director, Town and Country Planning Association 1949 Graham Swift, British Author 1949 Republic of Ireland withdraws from British Commonwealth 1949 Greg Knight, British Politician 1949 Paul Gambaccini, British disc jockey 1949 Sue Cook, British broadcaster 1949 Brian Hanrahan, British TV newsman, BBC 1949 David Mellor, secretary of the British treasury and MP 1949 Emma Kirkby, British soprano 1949 Maureen Hicks, British MP 1949 Russell Porter, actor (Betsy, Hanna's War, British Empire), dies 1949 Bernard Gallacher, British golfer 1948 David Davis, British Politician 1948 Noel Edmonds, British TV personality, Foul-ups, Bleeps and Blunders 1948 Alan Parsons, British Musician 1948 Patricia Hewitt, British Politician 1948 Bernadette Hingley, British priest 1948 Mark A P Phillips, British ex of princess Anne 1948 Lillian Brainthwaite, British actress (Man About the House), dies at 75 1948 British De Havilland 08-fighter flies faster than sound 1948 Rob Buckman, British broadcaster/actor, Pink Medicine Show 1948 John Scarlett, British Celebrity 1948 Albert F Pollard, British historian (Evolution of parliament), dies at 78 1948 Last British armies leave Israel 1948 Ian Paice, British hard rock drummer, White Snake, Deep Purple 1948 U.S. and British airlift to West-Berlin begins 1948 Ian Mcewan, British Author 1948 Anthony Nelson, British Secretary of Treasury 1948 Ray Laidlaw, British rock drummer, Jack the Lad 1948 28 year old British Mandate over Palestine ends 1948 Israel declares independence from British administration 1948 Bill Ward, born in Birmingham, England, musician, vocalist, drummer for Black Sabbath, a British heavy metal band, sang lead vocals on Technical Ecstacy, Never Say Die! 1948 Virginia Bottomley, British minister of state health 1948 Stern-group bomb Cairo-Haifa train, 27 British soldiers died 1948 G B Warren, British biochemist 1948 John Browne, group chief executive, British Petroleum Company 1948 Richard Tauber, Austria/British tenor/composer (Lehar), dies at 55 1947 British transfer Heard and McDonald Is (Indian Ocean) to Australia 1947 Aleister Edward S Crowley, British occultist, dies at 72 1947 G. H. Hardy, British Mathematician 1947 Godfrey Harold Hardy, British Mathematician 1947 Emmuska Orczy, British author (Scarlet Pimpernel), dies at 82 1947 Baroness Orczy, British Novelist 1947 Dave Pegg, British pop bassist, Jethro Tull-Crest of a Wave 1947 Jon Snow, British TV journalist, Channel 4 1947 Peter Hope-Evans, British singer/harmonicaist, Family 1947 John Fiddler, born in England, rock vocalist and guitarist, British Lions 1947 Russ Abbott, British TV comedian, September Song 1947 British government sails "Exodus" with fugitives from Nazis 1947 Brian Hulls, British TV news cameraman 1947 India granted independence within British Commonwealth 1947 Neil McIntosh, CEO, VSO, Center for British Teaching 1947 British seize "Exodus 1947" ship of Jewish immigrants to Palestine 1947 British Dominion Affairs office becomes Commonwealth Relations office 1947 David French, British director, Deep Sleep, Bingo 1947 Babe Didrikson is 1st American to win British Women's Amateur Golf Champ 1947 David Blunkett, British Politician 1947 British viceroy of India lord Mountbatten visits Pakistan 1947 Anthony Holden, British Journalist 1947 Iain Vallance, CEO, British Telecom 1947 John Laurence Miller, born in San Francisco, California, golfer, U.S. Open 1973, British Open 1976 1947 Wilf Stevenson, director, British Film Institute 1947 Michael Hindley, British MEP 1947 Lesley Collier, British ballet dancer 1947 Colin Sanders, British computer engineer, Solid State Logic 1947 Dallas Adams, British actor/painter/writer, Terror From Within 1947 Arabs and Jews reject British proposal to split Palestine 1947 British stop ships Independence and In-Gathering from landing in Israel 1946 Janet Street-Porter, British TV personality, Youth 1946 Martin Barre, British pop guitarist, Jethro Tull 1946 2 British ships sink near Albania 1946 Deepak Chopra, born in Punjab, British India, author, speaker, physician, co-founded the Chopra Center, made cameo appearance in movie, 'The Love Guru', 2008 1946 Felicity Kendal, Indies/British actress, Shakespeare Wallah 1946 Richard Spring, British MP 1946 Robert Jackson, MP/minister of British Civil Service 1946 Alan "Bam" King, born in Kentish Town, London, guitarist, singer with British rock music band, Ace 1946 Billy Bonds, British soccer player 1946 Michael Jack, British minister of state-home office 1946 Freddie Mercury, Bulsara, British vocalist, Queen-We are Champions 1946 British North Borneo Co transfers rights to British crown 1946 Rajah cedes Sarawak to British crown 1946 British mandatory government of Palestine arrests 100 leaders of Yishnuv 1946 Kate Hoey, British MP, Lab 1946 Malcolm Rifkind, British QC MP, Secretary of State for Defense 1946 Neil MacGregor, director, British National Gallery 1946 John Lawton, British rock singer, Uriah Heep 1946 Peter Kilfoyle, British MP 1946 Dudley Fishburn, born in England, British politician, journalist, Conservative Party, Member of Parliament of the United Kingdom, holds directorship for Altria Group 1946 Simon Hoggart, British Journalist 1946 Field Marshal Montgomery appointed British supreme commander 1946 Paul Davies, British Writer 1946 Henry Kelly, British broadcaster 1946 John Virgo, British snooker player 1946 Arthur Ponsonby, British Politician 1946 British premier Attlee agrees with India's right to independence 1946 David Gilmour, British Musician 1946 British Government takes control of Bank of England, after 252 years 1946 Ian Lavender, British actor, Stupid Boy in Dad's Army 1946 J R Farndon, British consultant surgeon 1946 John Greenway, British MP 1946 Lord Mackay of Drumadoon, British QC 1945 Max Hastings, British editor-in-chief, Daily Telegraph 1945 Kenny Everett, British TV personality, Kenny Everett Show 1945 Otto Neurath, Austrian/British philosopher, dies at 63 1945 John Amery, British Politician 1945 Roger Glover, British hard rock bassist, Episode Six-Deep Purple 1945 John McVie, British rock bassist, Fleetwood Mac-Rumours, Tusk 1945 Francis William Aston, British Scientist 1945 Jeremy Hanley, British Lower house member 1945 David Jessel, British TV-reporter 1945 British troops occupy Andamanen in Gulf of Bengal 1945 Sarah Tyacke, Keeper of British Public Records 1945 Bryan Ferry, British Musician 1945 Van Morrison, British Musician 1945 British liberate Hong Kong from Japan 1945 John Motson, British Celebrity 1945 Labour Party wins British parliamentary election 1945 William Joyce (Lord Haw-Haw) British radio traitor charged with treason 1945 Kenneth Robert Livingstone, British Politician 1945 Linda Davies, British Judge 1945 Steven Norris, British MP 1945 British military police arrest Admiral Karl Doenitz 1945 German island of Helgoland in North Sea surrenders to British 1945 Winston Churchill resigns as British Prime Minister 1945 Pete Townshend, British Musician 1945 British troops pull into Utrecht, Netherlands 1945 British troop join in Rangoon 1945 British commands attack Elbe and occupies Lauenburg 1945 British troops reach Grebbe line Netherlands 1945 Robert Key, MP/British undersecretary for National Heritage 1945 John Poston, British major/Montgomery's ADC, dies in battle at 25 1945 Ernest T Pyle, British/US newscaster, killed in WW II at 44 1945 British Army liberates Belsen concentration camp 1945 British and Canadian troops liberate Nazi camp of Bergen-Belsen 1945 Battleship Admiral Scheer sinks British aircraft carrier 1945 Lord Skelmersdale, British minister, C 1945 Julie Goodyear, British actress, Bet Lynch-Coronation Street 1945 British premier Churchill sails to eastern banks of Rhine 1945 British premier Churchill looks over at the Rhine (near Ginsberg) 1945 David Lloyd George, British (L) premier (1916-22), dies at 82 1945 Operation Varsity: British, U.S. and Canadian airborne landings East of Rhine 1945 British 7th Black Watch crosses the Rhine 1945 Tim Yeo, British MP/under-sect, State of Environment 1945 British 36th division conquers Mogok (ruby mine) 1945 British Empire celebrates it's 1st British Empire Day 1945 Timothy Mason, consultant, British Arts Council 1945 British 43rd Division under General Essame occupies Xanten 1945 British troops take Ramree Island, Burma 1945 British Army captures Goch 1945 K M Jenkins, British director of personnel, Royal Mail 1945 Gerbrandy British government refuses Dutch Jewish right to buy 1945 John Hayes, Secretary-General, British Law Society 1945 Gerald Davies, British rugby player 1945 British premier Churchill arrives in Yalta, the Krim 1945 James Nicholson, British MEP 1945 Nick Raynsford, British MP 1945 British troops land on Ramree, near coast of Burma 1945 Dennis Donnini, British rifleman (Victoria Cross), dies in battle at 19 1945 Marie-Christine AHI von Leibnitz, German, British princess 1945 British Premier Winston Churchill visits France 1944 Greece: British premier Churchill flies back to London 1944 Mary Archer, British Scientist 1944 Neil Innes, British Writer 1944 British order to disarm, causes general strike in Greece 1944 Biggest and last British Battleship HMS Vanguard runs aground 1944 Lord Moyne, British prefect (Middle-East), murdered 1944 Canadian and British troops liberate Dinteloord 1944 Jon Anderson, British Musician 1944 British premier Winston Churchill flies back to London from Moscow 1944 British troops march into Athens 1944 British Prime Minister Winston Churchill arrives in Russia for talks with Stalin 1944 British premier Winston Churchill arrives in Moscow 1944 British troops land on Greek continent 1944 Battle of Arnhem, Germans defeat British airborne in Netherlands 1944 IDG Garnett, British Vice-Admiral 1944 British and Polish paratroopers evacuate Oosterbeek (Arnhem) 1944 Anne Robinson, British Celebrity 1944 "Cab" Calloway, British scout, dies in battle of Oosterbeek 1944 Last British paratroopers at bridge of Arnhem surrenders 1944 David Lord, British lieutenant/Dakota-pilot DFC/VC, dies in battle 1944 Hilary Barlow, British colonel, dies 1944 John AC Fitch, British Lt-colonel, dies in battle in Arnhem 1944 British submarine Tradewind torpedoes Junyo Maru: 5,600 killed 1944 Anthony Stefanich, British boxer/captain, killed in Arnhem 1944 Peter Waddy, British major 1st Para Brigade, dies in battle in Arnhem 1944 British Premier Winston Churchill travels to U.S. 1944 Operation Market Garden: British airborne division lands Arnhem, Netherlands 1944 British bombers hit Tirpitz with Tallboy bombs 1944 Thomas Allen, British opera singer 1944 British premier Churchill travels to Scotland 1944 British 2nd Armoured pantzer division frees Antwerp 1944 Tank division of British Guards free Brussels 1944 Conrad Black, British Businessman 1944 U.S. and British forces destroy German 7th Army at Falaise-Argentan Gap 1944 British premier Winston Churchill arrives at Corsica 1944 British 8th army occupies Florence 1944 British premier Winston Churchill arrives in Italy 1944 David Pearl, British judge 1944 British 8th army reaches suburbs of Florence Italy 1944 1st British jet fighter used in combat, Gloster Meteor 1944 British premier Winston Churchill flies to France, meets Montgomery 1944 British/Canadian troops occupy Hill 67/Ifs/Bras/Frenouville, Normandy 1944 Heavy storm hampers British offensive at Caen 1944 Harry CA Eyres, British diplomat (Constantinople, Albania), dies at 87 1944 British Mosquito's attack Cologne and Berlin 1944 British air raid on German convoy SW of Helgoland 1944 British troops occupy Bourquebus hill range Normandy 1944 British troops march into Caen 1944 2nd British army reaches Grainville-Mouen line 1944 British assault at Caen Normandy 1944 British 14th army frees Imphal Assam 1944 British 12th airborne batallion/13th and 18th Hussars conquer 1944 British 12th battalion conquers Breville 1944 Barry Stevens, British/Netherlands, choreographer, Personals, Young Again 1944 Danny Brotheridge, British lieutenant, 1st to die during D-Day 1944 1st British gliders touched down on French soil for D-Day 1944 1st British gliders touches down on French soil for D-Day 1944 British troops occupy Aprilia, Italy 1944 British/Canadian troops occupy Pontecorvo Italy 1944 Peter Mayhew, British Actor 1944 Peter Ryan, British national director, Police Training 1944 British troops occupy Kohima 1944 Crispin Agnew of Lochnaw, British explorer/genealogist 1944 Arthur T Quiller-Couch [Q], British author/critic, dies at 80 1944 Chris Patten, British Politician 1944 Michael Fish, British TV weatherman 1944 Felicity Palmer, British mezzo-soprano 1944 Evan Parker, British Musician 1944 British troops capture Addis Ababa Ethiopia 1944 British dive bombers attack battle cruiser Tirpitz 1944 781 British bombers attack Neurenberg 1944 John Suchet, British TV journalist, Independent TV News 1944 705 British bombers attack Essen 1944 811 British bombers attack Berlin 1944 O C Wingate, British general-major (Burma), dies in air crash 1944 Ranulph Fiennes, British Explorer 1944 James Cousins, British MP 1944 Roger Knapman, British MP 1944 823 British bombers attack Berlin 1944 Bernie Grant, British politician, Labour 1944 891 British bombers attack Berlin 1944 683 British bombers attack Berlin 1944 John Edmonds, British trade unionist 1944 649 British bombers attack Magdeburg 1944 Henry Cecil, British organizer 1944 British troops conquer Maungdaw, Burma 1944 1st use of helicopters during warfare (British Atlantic patrol) 1943 British sink German battle cruiser Scharnhorst 1943 Dave Dee, born in Wiltshire, England, singer, songwriter, guitarist, member of the chart-topping British pop/rock band Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich 1943 British 8th Army occupies Orsogna/Ortona Italy 1943 British Forces Broadcasting Service begins operation 1943 444 British bombers attack Berlin 1943 Martin Peters, British soccer player 1943 Judith Frost, British Columbia, artist, To Red, Dust Drawings 1943 Alfred DPR Pound, British admiral/1st Sealord (Jutland, WW II), dies 1943 British 8th army lands at Termoli, East Italy 1943 Anna Ford, British broadcaster/actress, Secret Policeman's Ball 1943 British dwarf submarines attack Tirpitz 1943 David Wilshire, British MP, C 1943 British 8th army occupies Tarente 1943 U.S., British and French troops land in Salerno (operation Avalanche) 1943 British 8th army lands at Taranto South Italy 1943 British 8th army lands in South Italy (Messina) 1943 Peter Lilley, MP/sect of state for British social security 1943 498 British bombers attack Peenemunde 1943 Sicily: 3 U.S. A-36's bomb British headquarter 1943 British premier Churchill travels on the Queen Mary to Canada 1943 Rodney Stuart Pattison, British yachtsman, Olympics 1943 Rose Tremain, British novelist/playwright, Restoration 1943 772 British bombers attack Hamburg 1943 British assault on Catania Sicily 1943 British air raid sinks U-435 1943 British air raid sinks U-232 1943 British invades Pantelleria, tiny island south of Sicily 1943 Bill Hopkins, born in Prestbury, Cheshire, England, British composer, music critic, teacher, pianist, studied at Oxford University with Egon Wellesz and Edmund Rubbra, taught at Birmingham University and University of Newcastle upon Tyne 1943 British militia reaches Tito 1943 James Levine, British conductor 1943 French, British and U.S. victory parade in Tunis Tunisia 1943 Ian Vallance, CEO, British Telecom 1943 Elizabeth Andrews, British Politician 1943 British premier Winston Churchill arrives in U.S. 1943 Adm Cunningham of British fleet: "Sink, burn and destroy; let nothing pass" 1943 British 11th Huzaren occupies Tunis Tunisia 1943 British 1st army opens assault on Tunis 1943 Beatrice Potter Webb, British writer (My Apprenticeship), dies at 85 1943 Beatrice Webb, British Sociologist 1943 British and U.S. offensive directed at Tunis/Bizerta 1943 British and U.S. troops make contact at Wadi Akarit, South-Tunisia 1943 British and U.S. Army link up in Africa during WW II 1943 British offensive at Wadi Akarit, South-Tunisia 1943 Ian Robertson, British museum director, National Army Museum 1943 British 1st army recaptures Sejenane 1943 John Major, British Prime Minister, C, 1990-97 1943 Richard Eyre, British director, National Theatre 1943 British 8th army opens assault on Mareth line, Tunisia 1943 British offensive against Mareth-line 1943 John Leeson, British Actor 1943 British premier Winston Churchill gets pneumonia 1943 Iain Cameron, British brigadier 1943 6 British Mosquito's daylight bomb Berlin 1943 Julia Cumberlege, born in England, Julia Frances Cumberlege, Baroness Cumberlege, politician, businesswoman, British Conservative Party, member of Dames of the Order of St. Gregory the Great 1943 British 8th army marches into Tripoli 1943 Vice-Admiral Cunningham appointed British adm of fleet 1943 British premier Winston Churchill arrives in Casablanca 1943 Terry Venables, British soccer player/manager 1942 British Col S W Bailey reaches Mihailovics headquarter 1942 British 8th Army recaptures Benghazi, Libya 1942 U.S. - British troops occupies Oran Algeria 1942 Thomas Daniel Weiskopf, Massillon, Ohio, PGA golfer, British Open 1973 1942 Operation "Torch" began as U.S. and British forces land in French N Afr 1942 Jean Shrimpton, British model/actress, Privilege 1942 11th day of battle at El Alamein: British assault on Tel el Aqqaqir 1942 Vice-Admiral Cunningham becomes British commander-in-chief 1942 Johan Fleming Ramsland, British broadcaster 1942 6th day battle at El Alamein: British offensive under Montgomery 1942 3rd day of battle at El Alamein: British offensive 1942 2nd day of battle at El Alamein: British infantry 1942 U.S. and British government announce establishment of United Nations 1942 Gus Dudgeon, British pop producer, Joan Armatrading, David Bowie 1942 Desmond Lynam, British sportscaster 1942 British troops lands on Madagascar 1942 British and U.S. bomb Le Havre and Bremen 1942 British Premier Winston Churchill flies back to London from Cairo 1942 4,000 Canadian and British soldiers killed raiding Dieppe, France 1942 British premier Churchill arrives in Moscow, meets Stalin 1942 British aircraft carrier Eagle torpedoed and sinks 1942 General B. Montgomery becomes commandant British 8th leader in North Africa 1942 "Monty" appointed commandant of British 8th Army at Alamein 1942 Richard Gott, British gen/commandant of 8th Army, dies in battle at 43 1942 British government cancels agreement of Munich 1942 British premier Winston Churchill arrives in Cairo 1942 Francis E Younghusband, British journalist/explorer, dies at 79 1942 Patric Cobb, British sea officer, dies in battle 1942 German assault on British at Mersa Matruh 1942 British RAF staged a 1,000 bomb raid on Bremen Germany (WW II) 1942 British premier Winston Churchill travels from U.S. to London 1942 Jewish Brigade attached by British Army in WW II, forms 1942 British offensive in North Africa under general Ritchie 1942 John Daniel, British Vice-Chancellor, Open U 1942 Roger Freeman, British minister of transport 1942 Tank battle at Bir Hakeim: African corps vs British army 1942 Simon Keswick, British financier/merchant, Hong Kong 1942 1st transport of British/Dutch prisoners to South Burma 1942 Rachel Billington, British writer 1942 British assault on Diego Suarez Madagascar 1942 Peter Greenaway, British Director 1942 Graham Bright, private sec to British PM 1942 British cruiser Trinidad torpedoes itself in the Barents Sea 1942 British destroyer Campbeltown explodes in St-Nazaire: 400 Germans die 1942 British naval forces raid Nazi occupied French port of St. Nazaire 1942 British troops vacate the Andamanen in Gulf of Bengal 1942 Stuart Henry, British disc jockey 1942 Chananjit Vohra, Kenyan/British hotel magnate/multi-millionaire 1942 Michael Bishop, CEO, British Midland Airways 1942 Richard Needham, British MP 1942 Tank battle at Adzjedabia, African corps vs British army 1942 Walter Richard Sickert, British painter (Free House!), dies at 81 1942 British troops reconquer Sollum 1941 Winston Churchill becomes 1st British Prime Minister to address a joint meeting of Congress, warning that Axis would "stop at nothing" 1941 British troops overrun Benghazi Libya 1941 U-557 torpedoes British cruiser Galatea 1941 U-81 torpedoes British aircraft carrier Ark Royal 1941 British battleship Prince of Wales sinks off Singapore 1941 Dutch and British pilots see Japanese invasion fleet at Singapore 1941 British cruiser Devonshire sinks German sub Python 1941 British 13th Army corp reaches Tobruk 1941 British North African commandant General Cunningham lay-offs 1941 British troops conquer Belhamed, Sidi Rezegh and El Duda 1941 British cruiser Devonshire sinks German sub Atlantis 1941 British troops open attack on Tobruk, North-Africa 1941 British aircraft carrier "Ark Royal" sank in Mediterranean 1941 British air attack on Berlin, Mannheim and Ruhrgebied 1941 British signal officer Bill Hudson lands in Montenegro 1941 Charles Lindbergh, charges "British, Jewish and Roosevelt administration" are trying to get U.S. into WW II 1941 British Prime Minister Winston Churchill launched his "V for Victory" campaign 1941 George Young, MP/British minister of housing and planning 1941 John Gould, British composer/musical comic 1941 Delia Smith, British Entertainer 1941 British troops occupy Bagdad Iraq 1941 Hugh S Walpole, British writer (Killer and the Slain), dies 1941 British troops vacate Kreta 1941 June Clark, British Professor of Nursing, Middlesex U 1941 British army begins evacuation of Kreta 1941 German battleship Bismarck sunk by British naval force 1941 Bismarck sinks British battle cruiser HMS Hood, 1,416 die 3 survive 1941 Martin Mogg, governor, British Durham Prison 1941 Lancelot Holland, British Vice-Admiral ((WW II/Hood), dies in battle 1941 British troops attack Baghdad 1941 1st British turbojet flies 1941 British attack Halfaya-pass and Fort Capuzzo in Egypt and Libya 1941 Great British convoy marches into Alexandria 1941 British House of Commons votes for Churchill (477-3) 1941 Paul Darrow, British Actor 1941 Jonah Barrington, British World champion squash player, 1966-73 1941 Last British troops in Greece surrenders 1941 British army begins evacuation of Greece 1941 British troop land in Iraq/Yugoslavia; surrender to nazis 1941 Josiah Stamp, British Businessman 1941 British generals O'Connor and Neame captured in North Africa 1941 British general Gambier-Parry caught in North Africa 1941 Italian held Addis Ababa surrenders to British and Ethiopian forces 1941 Sea battle at Cape Matapan: British fleet under Cunningham defeats Italy 1941 Virginia Woolf, British Author 1941 British troops defeat British Somalia 1941 Lord Vestey, British food magnate/billionaire, Union International 1941 Tom Mann, British Businessman 1941 Walford Davies, British organist/composer, dies at 71 1941 50,000 British soldiers lands in Greece 1941 British troops invade Abyssinia (Ethiopia) 1941 Ann Winterton, British MP 1941 Ian McGarry, general secretary, British Actors' Equity Association 1941 Paddy Ashton, New Delhi India, British MP, Soc/Lib Democrat 1941 Paddy Ashdown, British Politician 1941 Arthur T "Bomber" Harris becomes British Air Marshal 1941 British troops conquer El Agheila 1941 British troops conquer Bengazi, Libya 1941 British tanks occupy Maus Libya 1941 Robert Walmsley, British Vice-Admiral 1941 British troops march into Abyssinia 1941 John Oxenham, British Journalist 1941 British/Australian troops capture Tobruk from Italians 1941 British communist newspaper "Daily Worker" banned 1941 British offensive in Eritrea 1941 British troops occupies Kassalaf Sudan 1941 British Air Marshal Richard Peirse resigns 1941 British/Australian troops conquer Bardia Lybia 1940 British troops occupies Sollum 1940 British air raid on Mannheim 1940 British troops conquer Sidi el-Barrani 1940 British anti-offensive in Libya (Sidi Barrani) 1940 British assault on Banghazi Libya 1940 British troops 1st major offensive in No Africa (Libya) during WW II 1940 North Africa: British counter offensive under general O'Connor 1940 Barbara Amiel, British Journalist 1940 Clem Curtis, born in Trinidad, singer, lead vocalist for The Foundations, a British soul group, including hits, 'Baby Now That I've Found You', 'Back On My Feet Again', 'Any Old Time' 1940 British air attack destroys half of Italian fleet 1940 Arthur Neville Chamberlain, British premier (1937-40), dies at 71 1940 British Council receives British Charter 1940 British liner Empress loaded with refugees for Canada, sunk 1940 John Dawes, born in Chapel of Ease, Wales, rugby union player, rugby coach, captain for The Barbarians, British and Irish Lions, Wales 1940 French/British assault on French fleet in Dakar, flees 1940 1st (British) night bombing of Germany (Berlin) 1940 British Prime Minister Churchill says of Royal Air Force, "Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few" 1940 Timothy Wood, British government asst whip 1940 George C Pearce, actor (Hold tat Lion, British Agent), dies at 75 1940 Luftwaffe bombs British radar stations, loses 31 aircrafts 1940 German air raid on British harbors Portland/Weymouth 1940 Barbara Mills, QC, British Director of Public Prosecutions 1940 Largest amount paid for a stamp ($45,000 for 1 cent 1856 British Guiana) 1940 Italian troops invade British Somalia 1940 Seaplane Clare makes 1st British passagiersvlucht to the U.S. 1940 Clive Sinclair, British computer inventor, ZX Spectrum 1940 Brian Mawhinney, chairman, British Conservative Party 1940 British government signs Bruma law under Japanese pressure 1940 British and German dogfight above Lyme Bay 1940 German planes attack British ships in the Canal 1940 British destroys French battle fleet at Oran, Algeria, 1267 die 1940 British Royal Navy sinks French fleet in North Africa 1940 Heather Steel, British judge 1940 Kenneth Clarke, British minister 1940 Last British troops leave Narvik, Norway 1940 British/French troops evacuate Narvik 1940 Willie-John McBride, British rugby player 1940 British complete miracle of Dunkirk by evacuating 300,000 troops 1940 Last British/French troop leave Dunkirk 1940 British and French begin evacuation of Dunkirk (Operation Dynamo) 1940 General Guderians tanks reach The Channel (British expeditionary army) 1940 Lord Beaverbrook appointed British minister of aircraft production 1940 British bomb factory at Breda 1940 British Local Defense Volunteers (Home Guard) forms 1940 Winston Churchill succeeds Neville Chamberlain as British Prime Minister 1940 British troops land at Narvik, Norway 1940 Gloria Hunniford, British broadcaster and actress, Old Curiosity Shop 1940 Germany battle cruisers sink British aircraft carrier Glorious 1940 R S Burman, CEO, Association of British Chambers of Commerce 1940 Penelope Keith, British actress, Norman Conquests, Priest of Love 1940 Failed British air raid on German base at Sylt 1940 German air raid on British fleet base Scapa Flow 1940 Frank Dobson, British Politician 1940 Denis Law, British soccer player 1940 Jimmy Greaves, British broadcaster/soccer player 1940 V Payne, British headmistress, Malvern Girls' College 1940 British destroyers board German Altmark off Norway 1940 British search plane finds German Altmark off Norway 1940 British merchant vessel fleet is armed 1940 Averil Cameron, British historian 1940 British railroads nationalized 1940 Brian Josephson, British physicist, Nobel 1973 1939 Battle at La Plata - 3 British cruisers vs German Graf Spee 1939 British Imperial Airways and British Airways merge to form BOAC 1939 Auberon Waugh, British Author 1939 German U-47 sinks British battleship HMS Royal Oak, 833 killed 1939 British fleet takes German U-27 boat 1939 British Expeditionary Force reaches France 1939 German U-29 sinks British aircraft carrier Courageous, 519 die 1939 British fleet attacks German U-39 boat 1939 British submarine Triton torpedoes British submarine Oxley 1939 German submarine U-30 sinks British passenger ship Athenia 1939 German U-boat sinks British passenger ship Athenia 1939 John Peel, British Entertainer 1939 Clem Cattini, born in Stoke Newton, North London, England, musician, drummer, played with The Tornados in the 1960's, appeared for diverse array of artists, featured on 45 different UK number one singles, considered most beloved early British rock n' roll figure 1939 Charles Wardle, MP/under sect of state British home office 1939 Ginger Baker, British Musician 1939 Mary Parkinson, British broadcaster 1939 Ferdinand Mount, British Writer 1939 Ford M Ford, Hueffer, British writer, (Tietjens Saga) dies at 65 1939 Budge Rogers, British rugby player 1939 British king George VI visits U.S. 1939 Margaret Drabble, British author, Needle's Eye 1939 British sub "Thetis" sinks in Liverpool Bay with all 99 aboard 1939 British decoration, George Cross, 1st presented 1939 British parliament plans to make Palestine independent by 1949 1939 Roger Buckley, British High Court Judge 1939 Veronica Sutherland, British diplomat 1939 Stalin requests British, French and Russian anti-nazi pact 1939 Donald MacCormick, British broadcaster 1939 Robert Courtneidge, British theater producer, dies 1939 Ron Atkinson, British Athlete 1939 David Mlinaric, British interior director 1939 Howard Carter, British archaeologist/Egyptologist (King Tut), dies at 65 1939 Gwen Taylor, British actress, Life of Brian, Sob Sisters, Screaming 1939 Tom Kierman, British rugby player 1938 Richard Sudhalter, British writer/jazz musician 1938 John Asprey, British jeweler/multi-millionaire 1938 Anne Perry, British Novelist 1938 David Willis, British journalist, BBC World Service 1938 British premier Chamberlain arrives in Munich 1938 Henry Keswick, British financier/merchant, Hong Kong 1938 British ocean liner "Queen Elizabeth," launches at Clydebank Scotland 1938 British premier Neville Chamberlain flies to Munich 1938 British premier Neville Chamberlain leaves Munich 1938 British Prime Minister Chamberlain visits Hitler at Berchtesgarden 1938 British leaders and Arabians fight in Palestine 1938 Terry "5 Wigs" Wogan, British talk show host, Irish Days 1938 Dudu Pukwana, Mtutuzel, South African/British saxophonist/composer 1938 Gwynne Howell, British opera singer 1938 John Prescott, British MP 1938 Margaret Forster, British Author 1938 Johnny Ball, British Entertainer 1938 Alan Smithers, British professor 1938 John Walters, British Musician 1938 John Weston, born in England, diplomat, UK Permanent Representative on the North Atlantic Council, 1992 - 1995, British Permanent Representative to the United Nations 1995 - 1998 1938 Paul Daniels, British magician 1938 Peter Attenborough, British headmaster, Charterhouse 1938 David Steel, British Politician 1938 Margaret Howard, British broadcaster 1938 David Irving, British Author 1938 President Cardena of Mexico nationalizes U.S. and British oil companies 1938 British Lord Halifax becomes Foreign Minister 1938 Lord Justice Ward, British judge 1938 Margaret Daly, British MEP 1938 Arthur Scargill, British Politician 1937 Peter Cook, British Writer 1937 Roger McCough, British poet 1937 Roger McGough, British Poet 1937 James Ramsay MacDonald, British Prime Minister (Lab, 1924, 29-35), dies at 71 1937 R B Heywood, director, British Antarctic Survey 1937 Alan Grose, British Vice-Admiral 1937 Wesley Hall, West indian/British politician 1937 Mark Potter, British court judge 1937 Sapper, British soldier/novelist (Bull-Dog Drummond), dies at 48 1937 Taki Theodoracopoulos, Greek/British journalist/multi-millionaire 1937 Ferdinand CS Schiller, British philosopher (Mind!), dies at 72 1937 Anna Dawson, British comedienne, Violet-Keeping Up Appearances 1937 Baroness Blatch, British minister of state for Education 1937 James M. Barrie, British Playwright 1937 Lord "Benjie" Iveagh, British brewer, Guinness, large landowner 1937 Michael Simmons, Air Marshal, British Ministry of Defense 1937 Brian Sedgemore, British MP 1937 Stan Mellor, British racehorse trainer and jockey 1937 Valerie Singleton, British broadcaster 1937 Simon Brown, British high court judge 1937 Aden becomes British crown colony 1937 Thomas Monaghan, British Soldier 1937 Mark Saville, QC, British high court judge 1937 Noel Murphy, British rugby player 1937 Jilly Cooper, British Author 1937 P J Squire, British headmaster, Bedford Modern School 1937 John MacGregor, British MP 1936 Michael Partridge, British civil servant 1936 Anne Downey, British circuit judge 1936 Robert Maclennan, British MP 1936 Barry Wilson, deputy chief, British Defense Staff 1936 Gerald Scarfe, British Artist 1936 Benjamin Bathurst, vice chief of British Defense Staff 1936 Lord Holme, president British Liberal Party 1936 1st British air hostess (Daphne Kearley) flight to France 1936 Ralph Steadman, British Cartoonist 1936 Anthony Mullens, British Lieutenant-General, Deputy chief of defense 1936 Neville Purvis, British vice Admiral, Chief of Fleet Support 1936 Edward Cazalet, British High Court Judge 1936 James Rand, British judge, Advocate General 1936 Michael Somare, British foreign affairs minister, Paupa and New Guinea 1936 John White, born in Berlin, Germany, composer, musician, tuba player, invented Systems music, a British form of minimalism, influences include Howard Skempton, Cornelius Cardew 1936 Michael Livesay, British admiral and president, RN College Greenwich 1936 Orissa constituted a province of British India 1936 Mark Burns, British director, Juggernaut 1936 Philip Ely, president, British Law Society 1936 David Thompson, British food magnate and multi-millionaire 1936 Ian Hacking, born in Vancouver, British Columbia, analytic philosopher, wrote, 'The Emergence of Probability', brings historical approach to the philosophy of science, won Canda's Killam Prize for the Humanities in 2002 1936 Andrew Miller, British principal, Stirling U 1936 John Harris, British cricket player 1936 Bill Jordan, British trade unionist 1936 Edward VIII succeeds British king George V 1936 David Vine, British sport commentator 1935 1st test flight of British Hurricane aircraft 1935 Lester Piggott, British jockey, 11 time champ 1935 Gary J. Player, born in Johannesburg, South Africa, PGA golfer, British Open 1959, 1968, 1974 1935 Arthur Henderson, British Labour minister (Nobel 1934), dies at 72 1935 Don McCullin, British photographer 1935 Brendan Jackson, British air marshal 1935 Rod Hull, born in Isle of Sheppey, England, Rodney Stephen Hull, entertainer, comedian, appeared on British television with puppet Emu in 1970's and 1980's 1935 William Watson, British poet (Purple East), dies 1935 Jerrie Anthony Hulme, British major-general 1935 Tom Rosenthal, publisher/British broadcaster 1935 David Prowse, British Actor 1935 William Brockwell, cricket (British all-rounder in 7 Tests 1893-99), dies 1935 Fernand Schokweiler, British judge 1935 Juliet Campbell, British ambassador, to Luxembourg 1935 Viscount Falkland, British peer, Lib-Dem 1935 British King George and Queen Mary celebrates silver jubilee 1935 Donald Lynden-Bell, British astronomer 1935 Lord Ichayra, Secretary-General, British Banking Association 1935 Michael Parkinson, British Journalist 1935 David Wilson, British governor, Hong Kong 1935 Violet Paget, British author (Gospels of Anarchy), dies at 78 1935 David Lodge, British Author 1934 David Barclay, British hotel magnate/multi-millionaire 1934 Frederick Barclay, British hotel magnate/multi-millionaire 1934 Richard Scott, British high court judge 1934 British liner Queen Mary is launched 1934 Robin McLaren, British ambassador, China 1934 Kenneth Eaton, Controller, British Navy 1934 Jonathan Miller, British Entertainer 1934 Simon Gournlay, president, British National Farmer's Union 1934 Harrison Birtwistle, British Composer 1934 Brian Barder, British high commissar, Australia 1934 Terence Clark, British diplomat 1934 Carl de Winter, Secretary-General, Federation of British Artists 1934 Anthony Evans, British high court judge 1934 Paul Gibson, British high court judge 1934 Gwen Swire, British social worker 1934 Phillip King, British sculptor 1934 9th viscount Portman, British large landowner/multi-millionaire 1934 Nico Ladenis, British restauranteur, Nico at 90 1934 Geoffrey Owen, British editor, Financial Times 1934 Richard Kenshaw, British broadcaster 1934 Gerald du Maurier, British actor-manager (Unmarried, Escape), dies 1934 John Collier, British Artist 1934 David Jones, British reverend and headmaster, Bryanston School 1934 Christopher France, British permanent secretary, Department of Health 1934 Peter Middleton, British permanent secretary, Treasury 1934 David Hancock, secretary, British Department of Education and Science 1934 Eleanor Bron, British Actress 1934 John Noakes, British TV presenter 1934 Edward Elgar, British Composer 1934 Annette Crosbie, British actress 1934 John Surtees, British race car driver 1933 Gerald Masters, South African/British author, Pan Book of Dates 1933 Ian Tyson, born in British Columbia, Canada, singer, songwriter, guitarist, song 'Four Strong Winds' chosen as greatest Canadian song of all time, in Canada's Country Music Hall of Fame 1933 D A Fenner, British headmaster, Alleyn's School 1933 Desmond Fennell, British high court judge 1933 Julian Oswald, British Admiral of the Fleet 1933 Butler-Sloss, British Lady Justice 1933 David M Storey, British rugby player/playwright, Home 1933 David Winnick, British MP 1933 Patrick Symons, British Vice-Admiral 1933 John Sparrow, CEO, British Horseracing Betting Levy Board 1933 Christopher Staughton, British Lord Justice of Appeal 1933 Helen Paling, British circuit judge 1933 Joan Bakewell, British broadcaster/actress, Cold Comfort Farm 1933 Dudley Sutton, British actor, Leather Boys, Brimstone and Treacle 1933 Norman Bailey, British bass-baritone, Flying Dutchman 1933 Michael Heseltine, Welsh/British minister of Defense, 1986, MP 1933 Bobby Robson, British soccer coach, PSV 1933 Charles Williams, born in Oxford, England, cricketer, batsman, Labor peer, Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, Baron Williams of Elvel 1933 Otto Meisnner dines with British ambassador Rumbold 1933 Bruno Schroder, British baron/banker/multi-millionaire 1933 Nurdin Jivraj, Tanzanian/British hotel magnate, Buckingham International 1933 Michael Aspel, British talk show host 1932 Roy Hattersley, British journalist/Labour-parliament leader 1932 Cynthia Payne, British Celebrity 1932 British Broadcasting Corp begins transmitting overseas 1932 Michael Knight, air chief marshall/British leader, NATO 1932 British government signs trade treaty with U.S.S.R. 1932 Adrian Mitchell, born in North London, English playwright, poet, children's author, voice for British anti-authoritarian Left 1932 British government signs trade agreement with Soviet Union 1932 Oswald Mosley forms British Union of Fascists 1932 Canon Paul Oestreicher, CEO, British section, Amnesty International 1932 Ronald B Kitaj, US/British painter/graphic artist, pop art 1932 Andrew Gardner, British broadcaster 1932 Earl of Cawdor, British large landowner 1932 Gilbert Parker, British Politician 1932 Angela Rumbold, born in England, politician, Member of Parliament, British Conservative Party, attended King's College, served as Deputy Chairman of the Conservative Party 1932 Howard Hodgkin, British Artist 1932 J. P. Getty, US/British oil magnate/billionaire, Getty Oil 1932 Timothy Sainsbury, British minister of state 1932 67th British Golf Open: Gene Sarazen shoots a 283 at Prince's England 1932 George Burns, British TV host 1932 Elizabeth Southey, British CEO, National Federation of Women's Institutes 1932 George Vallings, British Vice-Admiral 1932 Ronald Hampel, British CEO, ICI 1932 Arnold Wesker, British playwright, Bratkartoffeln Inbegriffen 1932 Terence Heiser, British senior civil servant 1932 Rodric Braithwaite, British ambassador to U.S.S.R. 1932 David Bolton, director, British Royal United Service for Defense 1932 Nourse, British lord justice 1932 David Alliance, Iran/British textile factory/multi-millionaire 1932 Nigel Lawson, British government official, The Power Game 1932 Brian Moore, British commentator, Big Match 1932 Adrian Swire, British aircraft magnate, Cathay Pacific 1932 R H Edgar Wallace, British writer/journalist (3 Just Men), dies at 76 1932 Edgar Wallace, British Writer 1932 James Clyde, born in England, Baron Clyde, son of James Latham Clyde, Lord Clyde, British judge, Chancellor to the Bishop of Argyll, Senator of the College of Justice in Scotland 1932 Neville Trotter, British MP 1932 British submarine M-2 sinks in Channel (60 dead) 1932 Ronald Allison, British author/broadcaster 1932 British Anglicans and Old-Catholic church merge 1932 [Giles] Lytton Strachey, British biographer/critic, dies at 51 1932 British East Indies Viceroy Willingdon arrests Gandhi and Nehru 1932 C. P. Scott, British Journalist 1931 British Statute of Westminster gives complete legislative independence to Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Ireland, Newfndlnd 1931 David Wilson, director of British Museum, 1977-92 1931 Patrick WIlliam Walker, British astrologer 1931 British naval fleet mutinies at Invergordon over pay cuts 1931 Lord Cecil of British Government says War was never so improbable 1931 Hall Caine, British Novelist 1931 Richard Vincent, British chief of Defense 1931 Bernard Manning, British comedian 1931 Roy Evans, general sect, British Iron and Steel Trade Confederation 1931 Mark Weinberg, South African/British fiancier/multi-millionaire 1931 James Loughran, British conductor 1931 Alan Bailey, British sect, Department of transport 1931 Della Smith, cookbook writer/British broadcaster 1931 Florence Sharples, director, British YWCA 1931 John Chapple, British chief of General Staff 1931 William Utting, chief inspector, British Social Services 1931 Bridget Riley, British painter, op-art 1931 Ronald Hynd, British choreographer, English National Ballet 1931 British House of Commons agrees for sports play on Sunday 1931 Denis Henry, British high court judge 1931 Joan Carlyle, British soprano 1931 Sylvia Law, British town planner 1931 R. P. Bauman, CEO, British Aerospace 1931 David Montgomery, chairman, British Forestry Commission 1931 John Rae, British educator, Conscience and Politics 1931 Bob Goalby, golfer, British Open-1968, Canadian Open-1968, New Zealand 1970 1931 British Labour party removes fascist Sir Oswald Mosley 1931 David Haddon Whitaker, British publisher, Whitaker's Almanack 1931 Gandhi and British viceroy Lord Irwin sign pact 1931 Edward Kellett-Bowman, British MEP 1931 Inge Bernstein, British judge 1931 Swraj Paul, Indian/British industrial/multi-millionaire, Caparo 1931 Fay Godwin, born in Berlin, Germany, British photographer, noted for black-and-white landscapes of British coast and countryside, took portraits of literary figures, Saul Bellow, Salman Rushdie, Anthony Powell 1931 W K Reid, British ombudsman 1931 Claire Bloom, British Actress 1931 Charles Algernon Parsons, British inventor (steam turbine), dies at 76 1931 Christopher Chataway, British MP/athlete, world record 5k 1931 William Ernst Johnson, British mathematician, dies 1931 Geoffrey Wragg, British reorganizer 1930 J. G. Ballard, British Author 1930 Frank Adams, British Mathematician 1930 Raj Bagri, Indies/British merchant in metal 1930 British White Paper restricts Jews from buying Arab land 1930 John Polkinghorne, British Physicist 1930 British airship crashes in storm at Beauvais France, 48 die 1930 Gwyn Francis, British Forestry commissioner 1930 John Daly, British trade union leader 1930 John Fairclough, British scientific adviser 1930 Princess Margaret, British Royalty 1930 Ted Hughes, British poet laureate 1930 Ronald Dearing, chairman, British Post Office 1930 Arthur Conan Doyle, British writer (Sherlock Holmes), dies at 71 1930 Gerald Kaufman, British MP, shadow Foreign Secretary 1930 65th British Golf Open: Bobby Jones shoots a 291 at Hoylake Hoylake 1930 Bryan Kneale, British sculptor 1930 William Taylor, British Chairman of Convocation, London University 1930 Robert Bunyard, Commandant, British Police Staff College 1930 June Knox-Mawer, British radio host/novelist, World of Islands 1930 Frank Page, British broadcaster/actor, Hudson Hawk, Dark Dancer 1930 John Robson, British ambassador, Norway 1930 Patrick Pery, born in Ireland, born Patrick Edmund Pery, 6th Earl of Limerick, The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, Irish peer, public servant 1930 James Alan Ferman, secretary, British Board of Film Classification 1930 David Staple, joint President, Council of Churches for British and Ireland 1930 Rolf Harris, Australian/British cartoonist 1930 Arthur J Balfour, British theologist/premier (1902-05), dies at 81 1930 Mohandas Gandhi begins 200m (300km) march protesting British salt tax 1930 Antony Acland, provost of Eton/British ambassador, to U.S. 1930 Gerry Davis, born in England, science-fiction writer, wrote British television soap operas Coronation Street and United!, script editor for Doctor Who 1930 Ruth Rendell, British Writer 1930 C F Payne, Cleveland, British chief constable 1930 Lionel Blue, British Clergyman 1930 Peter Tapsell, British MP 1930 David Morris, British MEP 1930 Iain Cuthbertson, British actor, Guilty, Scandal, Rep, Danger UXB 1929 Ken Dodd, British Comedian 1929 Lundy, part of British Isles, issue their own stamps 1929 Ramsay MacDonald is 1st British premier to address U.S. Congress 1929 British Labour government recovers diplomatic relations with U.S.S.R. 1929 John Zochonis, British multi-millionaire soap magnate 1929 Murray McLaggan, British Lord-Lieutenant, Mid Glamorgan 1929 Nigel Althaus, British government broker 1929 Ronnie Barker, British comedian, 2 Ronnies 1929 British troops begin evacuating 1929 Baroness Ewart-Biggs, British, Lab, spokesperson on Home Affairs 1929 Ronald Biggs, British Celebrity 1929 Alan Wicker, British broadcaster 1929 Bruce Kent, British Activist 1929 John Morgan, British ambassador, to Mexico 1929 Earl Ferrers, British minister of state, Department of Environment 1929 Neil Shaw, British CEO, Tate and Lyle 1929 Anthony Grant, British MP 1929 Katie Boyle, Lady Sander Saunders, British broadcaster 1929 Edward Anson, British Vice-Admiral 1929 64th British Golf Open: Walter Hagen shoots a 292 at Muirfield Gullane 1929 Rosemary Camp, president, Council for British Archaeology 1929 Jeremy Thorpe, British MP, Liberal 1929 Jeremy Thorpe, British Politician 1929 Peter Hordern, British CEO, Fina 1929 Jocelyn Barrow, deputy chair person, British Broadcast Standards 1929 Willis Hall, British writer 1929 Hal Miller, British MP 1929 Peter Bingham Hinchcliff, British church historian, 1 Sided Reciprocity 1929 Len Deighton, British Historian 1929 Peter NF Porter, Australian/British author and poet, Chair of Babel 1929 Bill O'Brien, British Politician 1928 British steamer "Vestris" capsizes and sinks off Virginia, kills 110 1928 William Staveley, British admiral 1928 Anthony Tippett, British chief of Fleet Support 1928 G H Martin, British keeper of Public Records 1928 Brian Matthew, British disc jockey 1928 Richard B Haldane, British viscount/lord-chancellor, dies at 72 1928 Chris Brasher, British Athlete 1928 Jimmy Hill, British Athlete 1928 British parliament accept female sufferage 1928 Harold Evans, British Journalist 1928 David Mitchell, British MP 1928 Raymond Powell, British MP 1928 Michael Blakemore, British theater director, Country Life 1928 Albert Booth, British government minister 1928 Stanley Baxter, British comedian, Joey Boy, Fast Lady 1928 William Trevor, British writer, Children of Dynmouth, Fools of Fortune 1928 P G Hammersley, British Rear-Admiral 1928 63rd British Golf Open: Walter Hagen shoots a 292 at Royal St. George's 1928 Gordon Downey, British Comptroller General/Reader Rep, Independent 1928 John Horlock, British vice-chancellor, Open College 1928 Richard Evans, British diplomat 1928 Brian Cubbon, British senior civil servant 1928 Jimmy Logan, British comedian, Mad Death 1928 Richard Trant, British general 1928 Alfred Morris, British MP 1928 Anthony Blond, British publisher, The Publishing Game, Book Book 1928 Roland Moyle, British deputy chairman, Police Complaints Authority 1928 Alan Loveday, British violinist 1928 Keith Williamson, British RAF marshal 1928 David Somerset, born in England, David Robert Somerset, 11th Duke of Beaufort, British peer, criticized for accepting public funds on riverbed land granted to his dukedom 400 years ago 1928 Donald Longmore, British cardiac surgeon 1928 Douglas Haig, British Field Marshal, Sudan, Boer war, WW I, dies at 66 1927 Iraq gains independence from Britain, but British troops remain 1927 Nadine Judd, Nadia Moore/Nerina, South African/British ballerina 1927 Ronald Laing, British psychiatrist, anti-psychiatrist 1927 Gwen Watford, British actress, Body in the Library, Ghoul 1927 Francis Matthews, British actor, On the Bowery, Paul Temple 1927 Harry Johnston, British Explorer 1927 Hugh Byatt, British diplomat 1927 John Dillon, Irish nationalist and British Lower house leader, dies at 75 1927 Brian Neill, British Lord Justice of Appeal 1927 Anthony Cavendish, British MI 6 agent/banker 1927 62nd British Golf Open: Bobby Jones shoots a 285 at St. Andrews 1927 Michael Levey, director, British National Gallery 1927 Geoffrey Palmer, British actor, Smacks and Thistle 1927 Isabel Stoate, British diplomat 1927 James Eberle, British admiral/director, Royal Institute of International Affairs 1927 Michael Sandberg, British CEO, Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corp 1927 Robert Evans, CEO, British Gas 1927 Ronald Halstead, deputy CEO, British Steel 1927 1st British airliner to serve cooked meals (Imperial Airways) 1927 Gerry Mulligan, British saxophonist and orchestra leader, Jazz on a Summer Day 1927 Guomindang Army conquerors Shanghai as British marines flee 1927 Raymond Jackson, Jaki, British cartoonist 1927 Ron Todd, British trade unionist 1927 John Swire, British aircraft magnate, Cathay Pacific 1927 General strike against British occupiers in Shanghai 1927 British expeditionary army lands in Shanghai 1927 Jakov Lind, German/British author, Counting My Footsteps 1927 Nigel Bagnall, British field marshal 1927 Viscount Cowdray, British financier/multi-millionaire 1927 James Callaghan, British MP 1927 Geoffrey WT Atkins, British World Champion racket player, 1954-72 1927 British government decides to send troops to China 1927 Sydney Brenner, British Scientist 1927 Houston S Chamberlain, British/German race theorist, dies at 71 1926 Christopher Logue, British poet/stage writer, Trials 1926 Imperial Conference ends-giving autonomy inside British Commonwealth 1926 British mine strikes after 28 weeks ends 1926 Frank Durrr, British? racehorse trainer 1926 Beryl Cook, British painter 1926 British Columbia Rugby Football Union forms 1926 Frank Hauser, British theatrical director 1926 Israel Zangwill, British zionists writer (Ghetto tragedies), dies 1926 Peter T. Thwaites, British Brigadier-General and playwright, 'Love or Money' 1926 John Graham, British ambassador to NATO 1926 Gertrude M L Bell, British archaeologist (Desert and Sown), dies at 57 1926 61st British Golf Open: Bobby Jones shoots a 291 at Royal Lytham 1926 Patricia Hutchinson, British ambassador, Uruguay 1926 Derek Birley, British Vice-Chancellor, Ulster U 1926 British general strike ends, but mine workers go on strike 1926 British general strike ends 1926 Francis Kennedy, British diplomat 1926 John Hamilton-Jones, CEO, Richmond Enterprises, British Major-General 1926 British general strike-3 million workers support miners 1926 British coal-miners go on strike 1926 Elizabeth II, British Royalty 1926 Barbara Tizzard, British educator 1926 Hans Rausing, Swedish/British industrial/billionaire, Tetra Pak 1926 Gudrun Ure, British actress, Lady MacBeth, BBC Sorcerer 1926 Peter Emery, British MP 1926 Reginald Freeson, British MP 1926 Cameron Rusby, British Vice-Admiral 1926 Alexander Gibson, British conductor/founder, Scottish Opera 1926 Danny Blanchflower, British soccer player 1925 Bill [William] Westwood, British bishop of Peterborough 1925 Margaret Thatcher, born in Grantham, England, Tory, British Prime Minister, 1979 - 1990 1925 Robin Skelton, British Writer 1925 Brian Dilton, British lord justice of appeal 1925 Alan Wicker, British broadcaster 1925 British warship fires on Hong Kong harbor strikers 1925 Charlie Drake, British comic, Plank, Rhubarb Rhubarb, Splish Splash 1925 A. C. Benson, British Author 1925 British mariners shoot on demonstrators 1925 John [Denton Pinkstone] French, British field marshall (WWI), dies at 72 1925 George Lloyd of Dolobran becomes British High Director of Egypt 1925 Alfred Milner, British governor (Cape Colony)/minister, dies at 71 1925 Edward Fursdon, British Major-General, defense council 1925 Cyprus becomes a British Crown Colony 1925 Anthony Christopher, British trade unionist 1925 Tom Jackson, British union leader, Post Office 1925 1st film shown on an British Air flight 1925 John Knox, British supreme court justice 1925 Tony Benn, British minister of technology, 1968 1925 George N Curzon, British Foreign minister (1919-22), dies at 66 1925 Lord Curzon, British Statesman 1925 G M Hughes, British zoologist 1925 British government of Baldwin refuses to ratify Geneva agreement 1925 Raymond Joseph Cecil, British architect 1925 Peter Berger, British Vice-Admiral 1925 British Liberals choose David Lloyd George as party leader 1925 Henry Harris, British professor of medicine 1925 Geoffrey Tucker, British political consultant 1925 Desmond Cassidi, British admiral 1924 British premier Baldwin cancels Labor contract with U.S.S.R. 1924 Lee Stack, British sirdar in Egypt, governer-general of Sudan, murdered 1924 Wolf Mankowitz, British playwright 1924 British Labour government of MacDonald, resigns 1924 Sunday Express publishes 1st British crossword puzzle 1924 Labour loses British parliamentary election 1924 British Labour government of MacDonald falls to Communists 1924 Sam Wainwright, deputy chairman, British Post Office 1924 David Atkinson, British air marshal 1924 Jean-Pierre Warner, British high court judge 1924 Francis Herbert Bradley, British philosopher (neo-idealism), dies 1924 F. H. Bradley, British Philosopher 1924 Robert Bolt, British Playwright 1924 Joseph Conrad, Polish/British writer (Heart of Darkness), dies at 66 1924 David Loram, British Vice-Admiral, Supreme Allied Commander 1924 Peter Miles, British keeper of privy purse 1924 59th British Golf Open: Walter Hagen shoots a 301 at Hoylake Hoylake 1924 Lord Rippon, British MP 1924 Desmond Carrington, British radio host, Jim-Calamity the Cow 1924 Clement Freud, British Writer 1924 British Empire Exhibition opens at Wembley 1924 Lord Mason of Barnsley, MP, Lab, British defense secretary 1924 John Grigg, British historian 1924 Denis Rooke, CEO, British Gas 1924 Crown takes over Northern Rhodesia from British South Africa Co 1924 Croydon Airport: 1st British mig aircraft Imperial established 1924 Eduardo Paolozzi, British sculptor, Hydra 1924 British Labour government cuts military budget 1924 David Beattie, British governor-general of New Zealand 1924 William Pillar, British admiral 1924 Peter Webster, British High Court Judge 1924 George Guest, British organist 1924 E. P. Thompson, British Historian 1924 New British MacDonald government recognizes U.S.S.R. 1924 Brian Trubshaw, British test pilot 1924 William van Straubenzee, British MP 1924 British egyptologist Howard Carter finds sarcophagus of Tutankhamun 1924 Roy Harding, British teacher 1923 Nepal changes from British protectorate to independent nation 1923 Labour/Liberals win British parliament 1923 Robert Francis Vere Heuston, British professor of law 1923 Desmond Bagley, British Journalist 1923 Robin Day, British Journalist 1923 British occuping army leaves Constantinople 1923 Duke of Buccleuch, British large landowner/art collector 1923 John Hale, born in Ashford, Kent, linguist, historian, professor, editor, attended Johns Hopkins University, Harvard University, served as a Fellow of the British Academy 1923 Britain takes over Southern Rhodesia from British South Africa Co 1923 Larry White Grayson, British comedian, Generation Game 1923 Gwyn Ward Thomas, British TV director 1923 Reginald Prentice, British government minister 1923 David Haslam, British rear Admiral, hydrographer 1923 Nicholas Mosley, British Novelist 1923 Jack Hayward, British financier, Wolverhampton Wanderers Football Club 1923 John Lea, British Vice-Admiral 1923 Lord Freyberg, British Colonel of General Staff 1923 Stanley Baldwin succeeds Andrew Bonar Law as British premier 1923 Hugh Beach, British General 1923 Francis Graham-Smith, British astronomer 1923 Baroness Platt of Writtle, British CEO, Equal Opportunities Comm 1923 E. C. Meade, British chartered accountant 1923 Stanley Orme, Chairman, British Labour Party 1923 John Venn, British Philosopher 1923 Hugh Overton, British diplomat 1923 Victor Hochhauser, British impresario, Israeli Philharmonic Orchestra 1923 Elizabeth Jane Howard, British novelist, After Julius 1923 British government grants Trans-Jordan autonomy 1923 Justice Drake, British justice 1923 Ronald Arculus, British diplomat 1923 Katherine Mansfield, New Zealand/British writer (Dove's Nest), dies at 34 1922 BBC sends 1st British radio play "Truth about Father Christmas" 1922 Last British troops leave Ireland Freestate 1922 British Labour party selects Ramsay MacDonald as leader 1922 Stanley K Runcorn, British geophysicist, Doctor of Utrecht 1922 Turkish sultan Mehmed VI flees to Malta on British warship 1922 Turkish kalief/sultan Mehmed VI asks British army for help 1922 British Conservative wins election/Labour 2nd party 1922 British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) forms 1922 Marie Lloyd, British Musician 1922 Guy Hamilton, British Director 1922 British mandate of Palestine begins 1922 Jack Boddy, British trade union leader 1922 William Henry Hudson, British Author 1922 Lord Northcliffe, British Publisher 1922 Lord Colinbrook, British government minister 1922 Frank Hauser, British theatrical director 1922 Wyndraeth Morris-Jones, British political scientist 1922 Frank Price, CEO, British Waterways Board 1922 57th British Golf Open: Walter Hagen shoots a 300 at Royal St. George 1922 William Halse Rivers, British psychologist/anthropologist, dies 1922 GMcC Kitson, British principal, Central School of Speech/Drama 1922 David Orr, deputy chairman, Inchcape, CEO, British Council, Unilever 1922 Leo Tindermans, British statesman 1922 Michael Palliser, head of British diplomatic service 1922 Tom Finney, British soccer star 1922 British court sentences Mahatma Gandhi to 6 years in prison 1922 British magistrates in India sentence Mohandas K. Gandhi to 6 years in prison for disobedience 1922 Megan Bull, British head mistress, Holloway Jail 1922 Frankie Howerd, British actor/comedian, A Funny Thing Happened 1922 Michael Flanders, British Actor 1922 Egypt regains independence from Britain, but British troops remain 1922 Geraint Evans, British opera vocalist, Knaben Wunderhorn 1922 Lord Pym of Sandy, British minister of foreign affairs 1922 Raymond Baxter, British TV host/author, Fast Lady 1922 Paul Scofield, born in England, stage and screen actor, considered one of the best British actors of the 20th century 1922 Ernest H Shackleton, British South pole explorer (Endurance), dies at 47 1921 U.S., France, Japan and British Empire sign a Pacific Treaty 1921 Leonard Overton, British glider pilot, Arnhem 1944 1921 British airship R-38 crashes in Humber, 44 die 1921 Patrick Howard-Dobson, president, Royal British Legion 1921 Leonard Lickorish, dir-gen, British Tourist Authority 1921 Benjamin Roberts, British industrial relations expert 1921 Peter Benenson, British Lawyer 1921 56th British Golf Open: Jock Hutchison shoots a 296 at St. Andrews 1921 Prince Philip, British Royalty 1921 Andrew Grima, British jeweller 1921 After 84 years of British control, Afghanistan achieves sovereignty 1921 British Legion forms 1921 John Harrison, British vice admiral/surgeon 1921 John Garlick, British senior civil servant 1921 Syd Vincent, British mine workers leader 1921 Robert Fell, CEO, British Stock Exchange 1921 Arthur Mold, British cricket bowler (1893, banished for throwing), dies 1921 John Stott, British Clergyman 1921 James Wilson, British Lieutenant-General 1921 Franta Belsky, British sculptor 1921 Lady Fisher, founder, British Women Caring Trust 1921 British coal miners goes on strike 1921 George Jefferson, CEO, British Telecom 1921 Mary Douglas, born in San Remo, Italy, British anthropologist, wrote about symbolism, human culture 1921 Oliver Wright, British Ambassador, To U.S. 1921 Ruth Gipps, British conductor/composer 1921 British troops occupy Dublin 1921 Winston Churchill becomes British, minister of Colonies 1921 British submarine K5 leaves with man and mouse 1921 Bruce Woodcock, born in England, boxer, British and Empire heavyweight champion 1945 - 1950, European heavyweight champion 1946 - 1949, events attracted sellout crowds 1920 British Empire receives League of Nations mandate to Nauru 1920 Roy Jenkins, British MP, Labour 1920 Peter D. Mitchell, British Scientist 1920 Gerard W. Taylor, South African/British surgeon 1920 Sheila Quinn, adviser, British Red Cross 1920 Peter Racine Fricker, British composer 1920 Peter West, British sports commentator 1920 Turkish Government renounces its claim to Israel, recognizes British mandate 1920 James Munn, commissioner, British University 1920 British East Africa renamed Kenya and becomes a British crown colony 1920 Jack Harman, British general 1920 Jeffrey Petersen, British diplomat 1920 Ruthven Wade, British Air Chief marshal 1920 Helen Cattanach, British Army Nursing Service, QARANC 1920 Haydn Tudor Evans, British high court judge 1920 Robin Haydon, British diplomat 1920 William Simpson, British trade union leader 1920 British Mandate over Palestine goes into effect, lasts 28 years 1920 Balfour Declaration recognized, makes Palestine a British Mandate 1920 Bernard Carter, British painter and etcher 1920 British parliament accept Irish "Home Rule"-law 1920 William Butterfield, born in England, born William John Hughes Butterfield, Lord Butterfield, life peer as Baron Butterfield of Stechford, Order of the British Empire, medical researcher, clinician, administrator 1920 Paul Scott, British Novelist 1920 Henry Marking, CEO, British Airways 1920 James Doohan, born in Vancouver, British Columbia, actor played Montgomery Scott on Star Trek 1920 John Junor, British editor in chief, Sunday Express 1919 Lady Nancy Astor sworn-in as 1st female member of British Parliament 1919 US-born Lady Astor elected 1st female member of British Parliament 1919 1st London-Amsterdam airline service (British Aerial Transport and KLM) 1919 British troops withdraw from Archangelsk 1919 British regime forbids Sinn Fein Dail 1919 Lord Charles Beresford, British Politician 1919 British intervene in Petrograd 1919 Lord Dormand, of Eastington, British MP, Labour 1919 Earl Cathcart, British major-general 1919 British troops fire on Amritsar India demonstrators; killing 350 1919 Treaty of Rawalpindi, British recognize Afghanistan's independence 1919 British R-34 lands in New York, 1st airship to cross Atlantic (108 hours) 1919 John W. S. Raleigh, British physicist (Nobel 1904), dies at 76 1919 Lord Rawlinson, British attorney general, Ewell 1919 Ronald Hines, Dutch/British actor, Pack of Lies 1919 Ted Leadbitter, British MP, Lab 1919 Charles Pringle, British air marshal 1919 Lord John WS Raleigh, British physicist (Nobel 1904), dies 1919 Duke of Rutland, British land owner/multimillionaire 1919 British forces kill 100s of Indian Nationalists (Amritsar Massacre) 1919 British Parliament passes a 48-hour work week with minimum wages 1919 Douglas Henley, British auditor-general 1919 Michael Lyne, British air Vice-marshal 1919 1st international air mail service from U.S., Seattle-Victoria, British Columbia 1919 Norman F Simpson, British playwright, One Way Pendulum 1919 Royalton Kisch, British conductor 1918 British Q-ship Cymric sinks British submarine J6 1918 Derek Barton, British chemist, Nobel 1969 1918 Derek Harold Richard Barton, British Scientist 1918 Anthony Crosland, British Politician 1918 Lord Winstanley, physician/British MP, Labour 1918 British troops attack Baku Azerbaijan 1918 Denis Smallwood, British air chief marshal 1918 Canada/Australian/British breakthrough with 600 tanks at Amiens 1918 British troops enter Vladivostok 1918 Wyndraeth Morris-Jones, British political scientist 1918 Eduard "Mick" Mannock, British WW I flyer (Victoria Cross), dies 1918 Lord Mulley, British MP, Labour 1918 William Whitelaw, British Politician 1918 John Johnston, British diplomat, Rhodesia, Malaysia 1918 Anthony Craxton, British TV producer 1918 William Perrie, British prison governor 1918 Halsey S. Colchester, British SAS, spy for MI6 and priest 1918 Idwal Pugh, British ombudsman 1918 Trevor Skeet, British MP 1918 British premier Lloyd George demand for unified peace 1917 3 British warships come close to Holland 1917 British forces under General Allenby capture Jerusalem 1917 Tiny Rowland, Roland Fuhrop, German/British owner, Observer 1917 British occupy Tel Aviv and Jaffa 1917 John Whiting, British dramatist/actor, Saint's Day 1917 William Smith, British deserter in France, executed at 20 1917 British capture Gaza Palestine from Turks 1917 British government gives final approval to Balfour Declaration 1917 1st British bombing of Germany 1917 Rodney Robert Porter, British Scientist 1917 British assault on Broodseinde, France 1917 British assault on Menin-street, France 1917 British assault on Polygon-forest, France 1917 British troops attack canal of Ypres in Boesinghe Belgium 1917 Benjamin Roberts, British industrial relations expert 1917 John Cunningham, executive director, British Aerospace 1917 Robert Cowans, executive director, British Aerospace 1917 John Stokes, born in England, politician, Conservative Party Member of Parliament, The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, member of the Conservative Monday Club, Primrose League 1917 British bomb German lines at Ypres, 4,250,000 grenades 1917 Christopher J. Forster, British RAF-pilot/captain, dies in battle 1917 British Royal family changes its name from Hanover to Windsor 1917 British warship "Vanguard" explodes at Scapa Flow killing 804 1917 William Hamilton, British MP 1917 After WW I King George V ordered members of British royal family to dispense with German titles and surnames, they take the name Windsor 1917 British king George V takes the name Windsor 1917 Order of British Empire inaugurated 1917 Allen Greenwood, deputy CEO, British Aerospace 1917 Derek Hodgson, British high court judge 1917 Paul Osmond, British senior civil servant 1917 Paul Rogers, British actor, Looking Glass War, Billy Budd 1917 Tom Normanton, British MP 1917 British troops occupy Baghdad 1917 Reginald Maudling, British Politician 1917 British Mendi sinks off Isle of Wight, 627 die 1917 Frederick Page, CEO, British Aerospace Aircraft Group 1917 Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, born in British India, brought Transcendental Meditation to Indian schools, universities 1916 Noel Johnson, British actor, Frenzy, Frightmare, Royal Flash 1916 David Lloyd George forms British war government 1916 British government of David Lloyd George forms 1916 David Lloyd George replaces resigning H H Asquith as British PM 1916 British offensive at Ancre Belgium 1916 Hector Hugh Munro, British Novelist 1916 Treaty establishes British suzerainity over Qatar 1916 Michael F Howard, British Major-General, Gold Stick to the Queen 1916 John Lapsley, British air marshal 1916 Charles Fryatt, British Captain of SS Brussels, executed by Germans, dies 1916 Edward Heath, British Prime Minister, 1970-74 1916 Battle on the Somme: British 4th Army walks to German lines 1916 British court martial (Easter uprising) 1916 Theodore P. Toynbee, British journalist and writer, Savage Days, Barricade 1916 Joe Bamford, British manufacturer/multi-millionaire 1916 Johnny Morris, British broadcaster/actor, Once in a Lifetime 1916 Geoffrey Goodwin, British professor of international relations 1916 Bill Waddington, British actor/comedian, Percy-Coronation Street 1916 Francis Crick, British co-discovered DNA's structure, Nobel 1962 1916 Horatio H. Kitchener, British General of Sudan, drowns at 65 1916 Cecil Blacker, CEO, British Equestrian Federation 1916 British battle cruiser Invincible explodes, killing all but 6 1916 Horace Hood, British spy (Battle of Jutland), dies in battle 1916 British Summer Time (Daylight Savings), 1st introduced 1916 Padraic Pearse, Irishg nationalist, executed by British firing squad 1916 Easter rebellion of Irish against British occupation begins 1916 Donald Gibson, British Vice-Admiral 1916 Harry Rabinowitz, British composer and conductor 1916 French airship sinks British submarine D3 1916 [James] Harold Wilson, L, British Prime Minister, 1964-70, 1974-76 1916 Henry James, US/British writer (Bostonians), dies in London at 72 1916 Ian Wallace, British CEO 1916 Frederick Stewart, British geologist 1915 Noelle de Mosa, Netherlands/British dancer/teacher, Brigadoon 1915 W G Grace, British cricketer, dies 1915 Edith L Cavell, British nurse, executed by Germans in Belgium (WW II) 1915 Battle of Loos, almost 430,000 French, British and Germans killed 1915 British army conquerors Chilly al Imara, Mesopotamie 1915 Battle at Loos: 8,246 British and 0 German casualties 1915 British transport Royal Edward sank by German U boat kills 1000 1915 George Joseph Smith, British Criminal 1915 British attack at Chanak Bair at Gallipolis 1915 Ronald MacDonald, British major-general 1915 Alexander Durie, vice president, British AA 1915 Ron Smith, union leader, British Postal Workers 1915 British/South African troops march into German SW-Africa 1915 British and French troops conquer German colony of Cameroon 1915 Julian Ridsdale, born in England, politician, Conservative Party Member of Parliament for Harwich in Essex, The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire 1915 Lord Huntingfield, British agent to United Nations Secreteriat 1915 Last liberal British government of Asquith falls 1915 Denis Thatcher, husband of British Prime Minister Margaret, 1979 - 1990 1915 John Egerton, born in England, born John Egerton, 6th Duke of Sutherland, served with British Expeditionary Force, captured at St. Valery, spent four years in a prisoner of war camp 1915 Richard Janvrin, British vice admiral 1915 John Arnold, British high court judge 1915 British Lusitania leaves NY, for Liverpool 1915 Lord Airedale, British Lord, social democrat 1915 Stephen Roberts, CEO, British Milk Marketing Board 1915 Failed British attack in Dardanelles 1915 British battle cruisers Inflexible and Irresistible hit mines in Dardanelle 1915 British expedition Army in Belgium captures Neuve Chapelle 1915 British vice adm Carden begins bombing of Dardanelles forts 1915 British fleet fire on Dardanellen coast 1915 John Freeman, British politician, Labour, ambassador/TV host 1915 Paul Ferris, British author 1915 Stanley Matthews, 1st British soccer player to be knighted 1915 James E Flecker, British diplomat/novelist (Hassan), dies at 30 1914 Bernard Youens, British actor, Coronation Street 1914 Ivan Sutton, British concert promoter 1914 British fleet forfeits chance to destroy German fleet in North Sea 1914 Alan L Bullock, British historian 1914 Alan Bullock, British Historian 1914 British and German fleets battle at Falkland Island 1914 British army conquerors Bazra 1914 Richard Lawrence Millington Synge, British bio-chemist, Nobel 1952 1914 British battleship Audacious sunk by mine 1914 Pro-German Boers begin opposition of British authority in South Africa 1914 1 German submarine sinks 3 British ironclads, 1,459 die 1914 Desmond Llewelyn, British Actor 1914 British trader Oceanic sinks off Scotland 1914 William E. Darwin, British son of Charles Darwin, dies at 74 1914 Lord O'Brien, British nobleman, dies at 73 1914 British, French and Russian government sign Pact of London, against Germany 1914 British expeditionary army/general Lanrezacs army attacks the Marne 1914 Von Glucks army meets up with British expeditionary army 1914 Adrian H. Stewart, British lieutenant, dies in battle in Cameroon at 26 1914 Battle at Helgoland: British fleet beats German, 1100 killed 1914 Battle at Bergen: Germans defeat Belgian/British troops 1914 George A Pogson, British consul in Puerto Rico, dies 1914 1st encounter between British and German troops (in Belgium) 1914 James Grierson, British general 1914 British field marshal John French and General Wilson land in France 1914 German submarine U-15 sinks British cruiser 1914 British Gloucester vs German Breslau/Goeben off Greece 1914 Lord Kitchener becomes British minister of War 1914 British fleet reaches Scapa Flow 1914 J. Lee Thompson, British Director 1914 John French appointed British supreme commander 1914 British fleet leaves Portland/passes Straits of Dover 1914 Minister of Navy W Churchill routes British fleet to Scapa Flow 1914 Armed resistance against British rule begins in Ulster 1914 Joseph Chamberlain, British minister to Germany, dies at 78 1914 54th British Golf Open: Harry Vardon shoots a 306 at Prestwick Club 1914 Brandon Thomas, British Actor 1914 Maurice Ohana, British?/French? pianist/composer, La Celestine 1914 Lord Erroll of Hale, British minister 1914 Rose Stainton, CEO, British Airways 1914 British House of Commons passes Irish Home Rule 1914 Anthony Fell, British MP 1914 Lord Smith, British surgeon 1914 British House of Lords rejects women suffrage 1914 Charlie Chester, British comedian, Never Say Die 1914 John Beith, British diplomat 1914 Alec Guinness, born in London, England, British actor, Bridge on River Kwai 1914 Chapman Pincher, British journalist/author, about secret service 1914 Donald Stokes, born in Plymouth, England, born Donald Gresham Stokes, Baron Stokes, Lord Stokes, industrialist, life peer in the House of Lords, managing director of British Leyland Motor Corporation 1914 Dutch Minister of war H Colijn named director of British Petroleum 1914 John Tenniel, British illustrator (Alice in Wonderland), dies at 93 1914 Marion Kettlewell, British director, WRNS 1914 J Tobin, British anaesthetist 1914 Earl Cadogan, British large landowner, Military Cross 1914 Alan Hodgkin, British physicist, Nobel 1963 1914 Lord Dacre of Glanton, British historian 1914 Northern and Southern Nigeria united in British colony of Nigeria 1913 Alfred R Wallace, British zoologist (Is Mars habitable?), dies 1913 Alfred Russel Wallace, British Scientist 1913 British passenger ship Volturno catches fire in Atlantic (136 kill) 1913 Ellis Peters, British Author 1913 David Hunt, British diplomat/quiz winner 1913 Stewart Crawford, British diplomat 1913 Stanley Kitchen, British chartered accountant 1913 Lord Oram, British MP, Labour 1913 12th Davis Cup: USA beats British Isles in Wimbledon (3-2) 1913 British House of Commons accepts Home-Rule Law 1913 Hugh Stirling MacKenzie, British vice admiral 1913 53rd British Golf Open: J H Taylor shoots a 304 at Hoylake Hoylake 1913 Peter Gibson, British Rear-Admiral 1913 Lord Avebury, John Lubbock, British banker/politician, dies 1913 John Lubbock, British Statesman 1913 British House of Commons rejects woman's right to vote 1913 Jack Aitken, British anatomist 1913 Ronald Harris, British 1st Church Estates Commissioner 1913 Cyril English, British educator 1913 British suffragette Emily Pankhurst sentenced to 3 years in jail 1913 Jack Jones, British trade unionist, CH 1913 Frank Allaun, British MP, L 1913 Mary Leakey, British Scientist 1913 British House of Commons accepts Home-Rule for Ireland 1913 Ernest Sidey, British air marshal 1912 Daniel Jones, born in Pembroke, Wales, Daniel Jenkyn Jones, Welsh composer, friend of Dylan Thomas, wrote 12 numbered symphonies, chamber music, made Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 1968 1912 George Howard Darwin, British Scientist 1912 Alfons "Alphons" Berckmans, Flemish/British actor, Family Stastok 1912 Preston Lockwood, British actor and writer, dies 1912 Eric Wilson, VC/British Lieutenant Colonel 1912 French/British troops lands on Samoa 1912 Peter Gretton, British vice admiral 1912 Mr. Carter-Cotton chosen 1st chancellor of University of British Columbia 1912 Anne B Ridler, British poet, Who is my neighbor? 1912 Lawrence Alma Tadema, Dutch/British painter, dies at 76 1912 British National Health Insurance Act goes into effect 1912 Joan Hammond, British operatic soprano 1912 Hugh Martell, British Vice Admiral 1912 Odette Hallowes, British classified agent in France, WW II 1912 Peter Menzies, CEO, British Electricity Council 1912 Harold Maguire, British air marshal 1912 Robert F Scott, British pole explorer (Antarctica), dies 1912 James Callaghan, L, British Prime Minister, 1976-79 1912 John Amery, British Politician 1912 L Oates, British explorer (Antarctica), dies 1912 Arthur Crook, British editor, Times Literary Supplement 1912 Edgar Evans, British explorer of Antarctica, dies 1912 George Mikes, Hungary, British writer, How to Be an Alien 1912 Juan Pujol Garcia, Garbo/Arabel, Spanish British/German double agent 1912 Lawrence Durrell, Indian/British writer, Private Country 1912 Nigel Dennis, British Writer 1912 Kim Philby, British spy/Soviet mole 1911 Ota Adler, Czechoslovakian/British fur trader/founder, Federal Trust 1911 Joseph D Hooker, British botanist, dies at 94 1911 Klaus EJ Fuchs, German/British atomic physicist/spy 1911 Stuart Rose, designer, British Post Office 1911 Bentley Bridgewater, British Museum secretary 1911 British premier Asquith holds secret meeting about British strategy in case of war with Germany 1911 Ronald MacDonald, British major-general 1911 Generals Henry Wilson/Auguste Dubail sign plan for British Expeditionary army in case of war with Germany 1911 Mervyn Peake, British Writer 1911 Klaus E J Fuchs, German/British/German nuclear physicist/spy 1911 Lord Brightman, British judge of appeals 1911 James Marjoribanks, British ambassador 1911 William Gilbert, British Composer 1911 Randolph Churchill, British Journalist 1911 British house of commons accept Parliament Bill 1911 Robert Hamer, British Director 1911 Richard Chapman, golfer, 1940 U.S. amateur, 1951 British amateur 1911 Fitzroy Maclean, British diplomat soldier politician and historian 1911 Stafford WIlliam Somerfield, British newspaper editor 1910 Yisrael Eldad, British extremist politician 1910 Edmund Leach, British Scientist 1910 Barbara Castle, British Politician 1910 George D Kilpatrick, Canadian/British bible scholar 1910 Charles Crichton, British director, Battle of Sexes 1910 Clive Robertson Caldwell, British fighter pilot 1910 Cicely Veronica Wedgwood, British historian, William the Silent 1910 Bernard Burrows, British diplomat 1910 50th British Golf Open: James Braid shoots a 299 at St. Andrews Scot 1910 Mary Whitehouse, British Activist 1910 Geoffrey Musson, British General 1910 Francis Avery Jones, British gastro-enterologist 1910 Hugh Casson, British Architect 1910 Dorothy Crowfoot-Hodgkin, British chemist, penicillin/B12/Nobel 1964 1910 King George V ascends to British throne 1910 William Orchardson, British painter, dies 1910 Desmond Dreyer, British admiral 1910 Andrew Miller-Jones, British TV pioneer 1910 Douglas R S Bader, British pilot, WW II 1910 Douglas Bader, British Soldier 1910 1st British labour exchange opens 1910 Lord Cayzer, British financier/swcheeps magnate/multi-millionaire 1910 British miners strike for 8 hour working day 1909 John Megaw, British Lord Justice of Appeal 1909 British SS Waratah disappears on Sydney to London, 300 killed 1909 2nd viscount Camrose, British Conserv Lower house leader, 1941-45 1909 C. Northcote Parkinson, British Historian 1909 William G Penney, British physicist, 1st British Atom Bomb 1909 Jan Lewando, British director, Marks and Spencer 1909 Edward Playfair, British senior civil servant 1909 Helen Fielding, British Author 1909 Lord Collison, British union leader, agriculture workers 1909 Simon Conway Morris, British Scientist 1909 Patrick Reilly, British diplomat 1909 Max Black, Dutch/British/U.S. philosopher, analytical philosophy 1909 Harold Beeley, British diplomat 1909 Foley Newns, British colonial administrator 1909 Lionel KP "Buster" Crabb, British diver, WW II-George Medal 1909 British explorer Ernest Shackleton finds magnetic south pole 1908 Charles Forte, Italian/British hotel magnate, Savoy 1908 Patrick Cairns "Spike" Hughes, British jazz musician/composer, Elegy 1908 John Grant, British rear-admiral 1908 Lord Renton, QC/British government minister 1908 Lord Jenkins of Putney, British MP of Arts, Labour 1908 Maurice Adams, surgeon/British rear admiral 1908 Jack Jacob, senior master, British Supreme Court 1908 David Lean, British director, Lawrence of Arabia 1908 Herbert Telley, British actuary 1908 Henry Campbell-Bannerman, British premier (1905-08), dies 1908 Lord Asquith succeeds Henry Campbell-Bannerman as British premier 1908 Neil Lawson, British high court judge 1908 British premier Henry Campbell-Bannerman resigns 1908 Bridget D'Oyly Carte, British theater and hotel director 1908 Vivian [Ernest] Fuchs, geologist/explorer, British Antarctic Survey 1908 Stephane Grappelli, British jazz/violinist 1908 Jacob Bronowsky, British mathematician/cultural historian 1907 Lord Hailsham, British Politician 1907 Lord Caradon, British Diplomat 1907 Bernard Miles, British actor, In Which We Serve, Mermaid Theatre 1907 Anthony F Blunt, British historian/spy for U.S.S.R. 1907 Phyllis Pearsall-Gross, British Geographer, A to Z Map Company 1907 Desmond Heap, authority on British planning law 1907 Louis MacNeice, British Poet 1907 Philip A. Edwards, British Guiana, runner, Olympic-bronze-1928, 32, 36 1907 Cyril Astley Clarke, British geneticist 1907 Cyril Clarke, British Scientist 1907 Mollie Doreen Phillips, British figure skater/judge, Olympics 1932,36 1907 7th Davis Cup: Australasia beats British Isles in Wimbledon (3-2) 1907 Paterson Fraser, British air marshal 1907 Nicolas Bentley, British Author 1907 Robert Humphreys, British? historian 1907 Valston Hancock, British air marshal 1907 Patrick Browne, British Lord justice of appeal 1907 Matthew Campbell, British senior civil servant 1907 Charles Cawley, British chief scientist/minister of power 1907 Nicholas Tinbergen, Netherlands/British biologist/zoologist, Nobel 1973 1907 Margaret Herbison, British minister, Lab 1907 Joy Finzi, Joyce A. Black, British painter 1907 Royal Oil and Shell merge to form British Petroleum (BP) 1907 English suffragettes storm British Parliament and 60 women are arrested 1907 Henry Cotton, English golf champion, won 3x British Open 1907 Henry Cotton, English golfer, British Open 1934, 1937, 1948 1907 Derek Richter, British neuro chemist, Aspects of learning and memory 1907 Wilhelm J Soukop, Austrian/British sculptor 1906 French/British/Italian treaty concerning rights on Abyssinia 1906 Lew Grade, British TV mogul, ATV, movie producer, Boys from Brazil 1906 Dick White, head of British secret service, MI-5/MI-6 1906 British government-Balfour resigns 1906 Margaret Barbara Lambert, British historian, Saar 1906 Richard Tangye, British Businessman 1906 John I M Stewart, British detective writer, Comedy of Terrors 1906 British New Guinea becomes Australian Papua New Guinea 1906 Gerald Vann, British Theologian 1906 Edmund Davies, British lord of appeal 1906 Thomas G. Cowling, British mathematician/astronomer 1906 Kenneth Anderson, deputy comptroller, British GPO 1906 Viscount Rochdale, British CEO 1906 Robert Brown Black, British diplomat/gov, Hong Kong 1906 Walter Legge, British Businessman 1906 Mary Ralton, director, British WRAC 1906 Alan J P Taylor, British historian, English history 1914-1915 1906 A. J. P. Taylor, British Historian 1906 "Census of the British Empire" shows England rules 1/5 of the world 1906 British Labour Party organizes 1906 Denis Barnett, British air chief marshal 1906 Gwen Catley, British soprano 1905 British government of Campbell-Bannerman forms 1905 British government of Balfour resigns 1905 British, Italian, Russisan, French and Austria-Hungary fleet attack Lesbos 1905 John Whitley, British air-marshal 1905 Arthur Koestler, Hungary, British writer, Arrow in Blue 1905 Bernard Benjamin Gillis, British judge 1905 Richard F Kahn, baron of Hampstead/British economist 1905 Elizabeth Lane, 1st female British supreme court justice 1905 Elias Canetti, Bulgarian/British novelist, Life-Terms, Nobel 1981 1905 Jack Longland, British director of education, Derbyshire 1905 Harry Campion, statistician and founder, British Central Statistical Office 1905 British East African Protectorate becomes colony of Kenya 1905 Lord Franks, British ambassador, to U.S. 1904 Clabon W. Allen, Australian/British astronomer 1904 Theodore DN Besterman, British bibliographer 1904 British newspaper, "Daily Mirror," begins publishing 1904 Russian fleet shoots at British fishing ship 1904 Julian Hodge, British financier/multi-millionaire, Hodge Group 1904 Earl Grey is named British governor-general of Canada 1904 Frederick Ashton, British choreographer, Cinderella 1904 Dali Lama signs treaty allowing British commerce in Tibet 1904 Christopher W. Bradshaw-Isherwood, British/US writer, Goodbye to Berlin 1904 British journalist Francis Younghusband visits forbidden city Lhasa 1904 Selwyn Lloyd, British statsman 1904 Anthony F A Sandys, (British) painter, dies 1904 George Formby, William Booth, British singer/comic, Let George Do It 1904 Kenneth Buckley, British rear-admiral 1904 Henry M Stanley, John Rowlands, British explorer, dies 1904 Gregory Bateson, British Scientist 1904 Gordon Richards, British jockey, winner of 4,870 races 1904 Bill Brandt, British Photographer 1904 John R. Hicks, British economist, Nobel 1972 1903 John Piper, British writer, US Churches in WW I, official war painter 1903 British forces under MacDonald and Young march into Tibet 1903 Herbert Spencer, British engineer/philosopher, dies at 83 1903 Robert A T G C Salisbury, British premier (1885..1902), dies at 73 1903 3rd Davis Cup: British Isles beats USA in Boston (4-1) 1903 James A McNeill Whistler, U.S./British writer (Bride Tomorrow), dies at 69 1903 Steven Runciman, British Historian 1903 Alexander Frederick Douglas-Home, British Prime Minister, 1963-64 1903 Amy Johnson, British pilot 1903 British government protests against abuser in Belgian Congo 1903 George Orwell, British writer, Animal Farm, 1984 1903 Douglas Packard, British Lt General 1903 Lennox R F Berkeley, British composer, Castaway 1903 Siegfried F Nadel, Austrian/British anthropologist, Black Byzantium 1903 George G Stokes, British physicist/president Royal Society, dies at 83 1903 G Evelyn Hutchinson, British zoologist, Treatise on Limnology 1903 John Eccles, British physiologist/neurologist 1903 Berthold Goldschmidt, German/British, opera, composer, Beatrice Cenci 1902 Boers and British army sign peace treaty 1902 Leonard Hirsch, British violinist and orchestra leader, RAF Symph Orch 1902 Anthony Asquith, British director, Carrington V C, Court martial, 1902 Stevie Smith, British Poet 1902 2nd Davis Cup: USA beats British Isles in New York (3-2) 1902 Paul Dirac, British Physicist 1902 Karl Raimund Popper, Austrian/British philosopher, Logic of Forschung 1902 British premier Lord Salisbury resigns 1902 Samuel Butler, British writer (Erewhom), dies at 66 1902 British SS Camorta sinks off Rangoon; 739 die 1902 Walter Dawson, British Air Chief marshall 1902 Boers beat British troop in Tweebosch Transvaal 1902 Battle at Yzer Spruit: Boer general De la Rey beats British 1902 Samuel R Gardiner, British historian (Oliver Cromwell), dies at 72 1902 Hartley William Shawcross, British Lawyer 1902 Geoffrey W. Lloyd, British minister of Brandstoffen/Energy, 1951-55 1901 A F [Tony] Pugsley, British rear-admiral, Walcheren attack, 1944, 1901 Edward J Eyre, British explorer/governor (Jamaica), dies at 86 1901 Joyce Wethered, Surrey England, golfer, 4 time British Amateur champ 1901 U Benson, British Lt-colonel (Magers' fountain), killed in battle 1901 CFH "Freddie" Gough, British major scout, WW II, Arnhem 1901 Edward Lambert, British diplomat 1901 Llewellyn Rees, British theater actor, Invisible Creature 1901 Robert Williams Buchanan, British Poet 1901 1st British motorized burial 1901 Henry Peach Robinson, British Photographer 1901 Cecil H King, Irish/British daily newspaper publisher, Daily Mirror 1900 General Viljoen surprise attack British garrison to Helvetia 1900 William G Armstrong, of Cragside, British const (hydr crane), dies at 90 1900 Joseph Needham, British Scientist 1900 Arthur Sullivan, British Composer 1900 PWJ Le Gallais, British Lt-colonel, dies in battle at Bothaville 1900 Herbert Butterfield, British Historian 1900 Queen Victoria disbands British parliament 1900 British General Buller occupies Lydenburg South Africa 1900 British annex Natal (South Africa) 1900 British troops over run Johannesburg 1900 Last 2000 British prisoners in Nooitgedagt South Africa freed 1900 1st Davis Cup: USA beats British Isles in Boston (3-0) 1900 Battle at Diamond Hill: British troops chase General Botha 1900 Boer general Christian de Law occupiers British train depot Roodewal 1900 British army occupiers Pretoria South Africa 1900 British troops under Lord Roberts occupy Johannesburg 1900 British troops under Ian Hamilton attack the Vaal in South Africa 1900 British troops relieve Mafeking (Cape Colony) 1900 Mervyn A. Ellison, British astronomer, spectrohelioscope 1900 George J D Campbell, British Minister of Indies (1868-74, 80-85), dies at 76 1900 Mebel Mercer, popular British singer, dies 1900 British garrison of Reddersberg surrenders to Boer general De Wet 1900 British troops occupy Bloemfontein, Orange-Free state 1900 Battle at Driefontein, South Africa (Boers vs. British army) 1900 Basil Bunting, British Poet 1900 British Labour Party forms 1900 Battle at Hart's Hill, South Africa (Boers vs British army) 1900 Battle at Wynne's Hill, South Africa (Boers vs British army) 1900 British troops occupy Hlangwane Natal 1900 Battle at Paardeberg, 1,270 British killed/injured 1900 British troops occupy Monte Christo Natal 1900 British troops vacate Vaal Krantz, Natal 1900 Battle at Vaalkrans, South Africa (Boers vs British army) 1900 British troops under General Buller occupy Vaal Krantz, Natal 1900 Battle at Tugela-Spionkop, South Africa (Boers vs British army) 1900 British protectorates of Northern and Southern Nigeria established 1899 Field Marshal Lord Roberts appointed British supreme commander in South Africa 1899 Frederick "Freddy" Roberts, son of British field marshal, dies in battle 1899 Andrew "Andy" Wauchope, British general-major, dies in battle 1899 Lord Winchester, British marquis/major, dies in battle 1899 British "Black Week" due to nederlagen in South Africa 1899 Battle at Storm Berge South Africa - Boers vs British army 1899 Natal: British fall/burst out belegerd Ladysmith 1899 Battle of Mud river (Boer General. Cronje beats British General Methuen) 1899 Battle at Willow Grange, Natal (British vs Boer army) 1899 British troops reach Durban Natal 1899 British Morning Post reporter Winston Churchill reaches Capetown 1899 C Grant B Allen, Canada, British writer (Woman Who Did), dies 1899 Battle at Rietfontein, South Africa: Boers vs British army 1899 W Penn Symons, British General-Major, dies in battle 1899 British troops flee Dundee, Natal South Africa 1899 Battle at Elandslaagte Natal: (Boers vs British army) 1899 Battle at Talana Hill Natal: British army vs Boers 1899 Robert H "Bobby" Gunning, British colonel (60th Rifles), dies in battle 1899 1st British troops reaches Durban South Africa 1899 South Africa President Kruger routes British authorities ultimatum 1899 1st British troops leave Bombay for South Africa 1899 British government sends an additional 10,000 troops to Natal South Africa 1899 [Friedrich] August von Hayek, Australia/British economist, Road to Serfdom 1899 Transvaal British Uitlanders ask Queen Victoria for aid 1899 British and French accord about West-Africa 1898 Hubert Howard, British journalist (Times), dies through friendly fire 1898 Kathleen Hale, British children book writer/illustrator, Orlando 1898 William E. Gladstone, British Leader 1898 Lord Leatherland, British journalist/Labour peer 1898 Cecil Bowra, British classics expert, Greek experience 1898 James Wimshurst, British designer/inventor (vacuum pump), dies at 70 1897 Patrick M S Blackett, British physicist, nuclear reaction, Nobel 1948 1897 Ronald G. W. Norrish, British chemist, Nobel 1967 1897 Ruth Pitter, British poet 1897 Thomas Edward Brown, British Poet 1897 1st British bus service opens 1897 Ralph Abercromby, British meteorologist, dies at about 54 1897 Anthony Eden, Earl of Avon, C, British Prime Minister, 1955-57 1897 Robert Neumann, Austrian/British author, Waters of Babylon 1897 John B. Glubb, British commandant/writer, A soldier with the Arabs 1897 Ebenezer C Brewer, British writer (Dictionary of Phrase and Fable), dies 1897 British troops occupy Bida Gold Coast (Ghana) 1897 Battle at Bida Gold Coast: British troops beat Nupe's army 1896 Oswald Mosley, baron/British nazi 1896 Bridget Driscoll, 1st British to die in an auto-accident 1896 Wallis Simpson, British Royalty, Duchess of Windsor, divorcee 1896 Alister Hardy, British Scientist 1896 John Moores, British gambling magnate/multi-millionaire 1896 British troops occupy Kumasi, West Africa 1895 LP Hartley, British writer, dies 1895 King George VI, British Royalty 1895 B. H. Liddell Hart, British Historian 1895 Charles Halle, British pianist, dies 1895 Nigel Bruce, British/US actor, Dr. Watson-Sherlock Holmes 1895 Frank Raymond Leavis, British literary critic, Culture and Environment 1895 British Roseberry government falls 1895 British inventor Birt Acres patents film camera/projector 1895 Joseph Whitaker, British publisher (Whitaker' Almanack), dies at 75 1895 Zoltan Korda, Hungarian/British director, Jungle Book, 4 Feathers 1895 Stanley Rous, British soccer official 1895 Harry F V Edward, born in British Guiana, 100m/200m runner, Olympic-bronze-1920 1895 British inventor Birt Acres films Oxford-Cambridge 1894 Ernest John Moeran, British composer 1894 Christina Rossetti, British Poet 1894 J. B. Priestley, British Writer 1894 Premier Roseberry declares Uganda a British protectorate 1894 British and Belgian secret accord on dividing Central-Africa 1894 4th and last British government of Gladstone resigns 1894 British troops occupy Ilorin, Gold Coast 1894 [Maurice] Harold MacMillan, London, C, British Prime Minister, 1957-63 1893 Allan Wilson, British/Rhodesian major, dies in battle 1893 Alexander Korda, British movie producer, 3rd man 1893 Leslie Hore-Belisha, British Minister of Transport 1893 British King George V marries princess Victoria of Teck (Queen Mary) 1893 British fleet under Vice-Admiral George Tryon leaves Beirut 1893 Dorothy L. Sayers, British Author 1893 Karl Mannheim, Hungarian/German/British sociologist, Ideology and Utopia 1893 D Ivor D Novello, British composer/writer, Truth Game 1893 British Independent Labor Party forms (Keir Hardie as its leader) 1892 4th and last British government of Gladstone forms 1892 James Keir Hardie chosen 1st socialist in British Lower house 1892 Edward B B Shanks, British poet and critic 1892 Richard Tauber, Ernst Seiffert, Austria/British, tenor/conductor 1892 Arthur Hodister, British ivory seller (Heart of Darkness), murdered 1892 Vere G Childe, British archaeologist/prehistorian 1892 Stanislav Wladyslaw Maczek, Polish/British general-major/commandant 1892 Eva Turner, British soprano 1892 Nikolaj A. Orloff, Russian/British pianist, Chopin 1892 Charles Spurgeon, British Clergyman 1892 Battle at Mengo, Uganda: French missionaries attack British missionaries 1891 Kenneth A. N. Anderson, British general, Dunkerk, North Africa 1891 British Central African Protectorate (now Malawi) forms 1891 David Low, British Cartoonist 1891 British Steamer "Utopia" sinks off Gibraltar killing 574 1890 Harry Pollitt, chairman British communist (1956-60), dies 1890 British and French accord to divide African colonization 1890 Arthur W. Tedder of Glenguin, British air marshal, WW II 1889 Arnold J. Toynbee, British Historian 1889 John Bright, British Politician 1889 Howard Spring, British author/novelist/writer/critic, O Absalom 1889 Gertrude Caton-Thompson, British archaeologist, Zimbabwe, So Arabia 1888 Queen Victoria grants William Mackinnons Imperial British 1888 James Jameson, British nature investigator (Congo), dies 1888 Gilbert Ledward, British sculptor 1887 Sir John Layton Jarvis, 1st British race horse trainer knighted 1887 Bernard L Montgomery, British field marshall, WW II-African campaign 1887 Bernard Law Montgomery, British Soldier 1887 British SS Wah Yeung catches fire on Canton River off Hong Kong 1887 Friedrich A. Paneth, Austrian/British chemist 1887 Rupert Brooke, British WW I poet, 1914 1887 Kurt Schwitters, German/British dada-artist/poet, collages 1887 Alan Gordon Cunningham, Irish/British general/director of Palestine, 1945-48 1886 China takes British protectorate of Burma 1886 George Leigh Mallory, British Celebrity 1886 Olaf Stapleton, British religious sci-fi writer, Star Maker 1886 Oskar Kokoschka, Russia/Austrian/British, painter, Erasmus Prize 1960 1886 2nd British government of Salisbury forms 1886 1st British government of Salisbury resigns 1885 Bechuanaland becomes a British protectorate 1885 Dornford Yates, British Novelist 1885 British government of Salisbury forms 1885 Erwin F Finlay-Freundlich, British astronomer, theory of relativity 1885 Susanna Moodie, British Author 1885 Harry St. John Philby, sheik Abdullah, British explorer 1885 Clementine Ogilvy Spencer-Churchill, Hozier, British barones 1885 Robert Blackburn, British aviation pioneer 1885 Charles George Gordon, British Governor-General of Sudan, executed at 51 1885 British beat Mahdists at Battle of Abu Klea in Sudan 1884 British protectorate proclaimed over southeast New Guinea 1884 Adrian S Oppenheim, Dutch lawyer/adviser, British Petroleum/Shell 1884 Francis B Young, British physician/writer, White Ladies 1884 Claude "Auk" Auchinleck, British Field Marshal North-Africa 1884 Claude Auchinleck, British Soldier 1884 British and Portuguese treaty signed in Congo by Leopold II 1883 Wilhelm Siemens, German/British physicist (steam engine), dies 1883 William Hicks, British col/commander (Egyptian army), dies in battle 1883 A S Neill, British headmaster, Summerhill 1883 Slavery banned throughout British Empire 1883 A papyrus offered to British Museum for 10,000 pounds, forgery 1883 Archibald Wavell, British Soldier 1883 Leonard Mudie, England, actor, Magnetic Monster, British Intelligence 1883 James I Wedgwood, British theosophist/old-catholic bishop 1883 Andrew Browne, Irish/British Admiral, WW II 1883 Clement Attlee, British Prime Minister, 1945-51 1883 Clement Atlee, British Statesman 1882 Otto Neurath, Australian/British philosopher, Foundation of Social Sciences 1882 British HMS Flirt fire at and destroy Abari village in Niger 1882 British HMS Flirt destroys village of Asaba Niger 1882 British general Wolseley occupies Cairo 1882 British General Wolseley reaches Cairo 1882 Battle at Count el-Kebir: British troops invade Egypt 1882 British under General Wolseley land in Alexandria 1882 British fleet bombs Alexandria 1882 Neville Henderson, British diplomat 1882 Melanie Klein, Austrian/British psycho analysis 1882 John Linnell, British painter/minaturist/engraver, dies 1881 Transvaal regains independence under British suzerainty 1881 Ernest Bevin, British minister of Labour and Foreign affairs 1881 Battle at Amajuba, South Africa: Boers vs. British army under General Colley 1881 George Colley, British governor of Natal/general, dies in battle at 46 1881 Natal: British troops under General-major Colley occupy Majuba Hill 1881 Battle at Ingogo, Transvaal: Boers beat superior British forces 1881 Frederick Leonard Lonsdale, British playwright, Balkan Princess 1881 Arthur O'Shaughnessy, British Poet 1881 Battle at Laing's Neck Natal: Boers beat superior powered British 1881 Alfred R Radcliffe-Browne, British anthropologist, Andaman Islanders 1880 Leonard Woolf, British Author 1880 Alfred Noyes, British poet/essayist, Loom of Years, Highwayman 1880 Josiah Stamp, British Businessman 1880 Baron W. Edmund, Archangel and Ironside, British Field Marshal 1879 North British Railway's train falls as Firth bridge collapses (Scot) 1879 British troops occupy Kabul Afghanistan 1879 Nancy Astor, British Politician 1879 William Froude, British civil eng/shipbuilder (F Integer), dies at 68 1879 Anthony Pannizim, principal librarian (British Museum), dies 1879 Khedive Ismael of Egypt fires French/British ministers 1879 Julia Margaret Cameron, British Photographer 1879 Zulus attack British Army camp in Isandhlwana South Africa 1879 Anthony Durnford, British colonel, dies in battle 1879 George Shepstone, British political affiliate, dies in battle 1879 British troops under Lord Chelmsford set camp at Isandlwana 1879 British Zulu War begins: Lieutenant-General Chelmsford invades Zululand 1879 Zulu war against British colonial rule in South Africa begins 1879 British battleship Thunder explodes in Gulf of Ismid, 9 die 1879 Ernest Jones, British psychoanalyst, Life and Work of Sigmund Freud 1878 British frigate Eurydice sunk; 300 lost 1877 Roger Quilter, British composer 1877 Francis William Aston, British Scientist 1877 Alfred DPR Pound, British admiral/1st Sealord, Jutland, WW II 1877 Charles Stewart Rolls, British auto manufacturer, Rolls-Royce Ltd 1877 Frank Pocock, British explorer, drowned in the Congo 1877 British annex Transvaal, in South Africa 1877 British high director/governor sir Bartle Frere arrives in Capetown 1877 British annex Walvis Bay in southern Africa 1877 G. H. Hardy, British Mathematician 1877 Godfrey Harold Hardy, British Mathematician 1875 JWW Birch, 1st British resident of Perak Malakka, murdered 1875 Aleister [Edward S] Crowley, 75 pseudonames, British occultist 1875 Arthur Helps, British Historian 1875 Charles Lyell, British geologist (Elements of Geology), dies at 77 1874 Winston Churchill, British Prime Minister, 1940 - 1945, 1951 - 1955, Nobel 1953 1874 Viscount Palmerston, Whig, British Prime Minister, 1855-65 1874 Fiji becomes a British possession 1874 1st baseball teams to play outside U.S., Boston-Philadelphia in British Isles 1874 William Somerset Maugham, British Playwright 1874 W. Somerset Maugham, British Playwright 1873 Leopold Stennett Amery, British politician 1873 Leopold CMS Amery, British minister of Colonies, India 1873 Henry M Tomlinson, British writer, Sea and Jungle 1873 Howard Carter, British archaeologist, found King Tutankhamen's tomb 1873 David Livingstone, British physician/explorer (Africa), dies at 60 1873 British White Star steamship Atlantic sinks off Nova Scotia, 547 die 1873 Margaret Bondfield, British Labour leader/1st woman cabinet member 1872 Edward Marsh, British Editor 1872 George Louis Beer, historian, authority on British colonies 1872 Edward Gordon Craig, British Actor 1872 George Joseph Smith, British Criminal 1871 British Columbia becomes 6th Canadian province 1871 John F. W. Herschel, British astronomer (Catalogue of Nebulae), dies 1871 Henry Stephenson, British WI, actor, Conquest, Little Old, New York, Mr. Lucky 1871 Arthur Ponsonby, British Politician 1871 British Rugby Union forms 1871 Charles Kortright, British cricket player 1870 Hector Hugh Munro, British Novelist 1870 Lord Alfred Douglas, British 1870 British SS Cambria leaves for Noth sea coast, 196 killed 1870 British Red Cross Society forms 1870 Marie Lloyd, British Musician 1869 Albert F Pollard, British historian, Dict of natural biography 1869 Neville Chamberlain, British Prime Minister, C, 1937-40 1868 1st British government of Gladstone forms 1868 1st British government of Disraeli resigns 1868 Duncan Forbes, British Writer 1868 Gertrude M L Bell, British archaeologist, Desert and The Sown 1868 Robert Falcon Scott, British leader of ill-fated south pole expedition 1868 Michael Barrett, Irish nationalist, last British public execution 1868 1st British government of Disraeli forms 1868 Leonard Borwick, British pianist 1867 Stanley Baldwin, C, British Prime Minister, 1923-24, 1924-29, 1935-37 1867 Ernest C Dowson, British poet 1867 British parliament rejects John Stuart Mills law on women suffrage 1867 Robert Smirke, British architect, dies 1867 Singapore, Penang and Malakka become British crown colonies 1867 British North America Act (Canadian constitution) passes 1866 James Ramsay MacDonald, L, British Prime Minister, 1924, 1929-35 1866 Gilbert Murray, British Diplomat 1865 Elizabeth Gaskell, British Novelist 1865 Baroness Orczy, British Novelist 1865 Emmuska Orczy, British writer, Scarlet Pimpernel 1865 Lord Northcliffe, British Publisher 1865 George C Pearce, actor, Country Kid, British Agent, Valiant 1865 British newspaper "Morning Chronicle" begins publishing 1864 Elinor Glyn, British novelist, 3 Weeks 1864 British, French and Dutch fleets attacked Japan in Shimonoseki Straits 1864 U.S., British, French and Dutch naval officer sails Staits of Simonoseki 1864 Ferdinand C S Schiller, British philosopher, Riddles of the Sphinx 1864 Nassau William Senior, British economist 1863 Austen Chamberlain, British Foreign Secretary, Nobel 1925 1863 Colin Campbell, British officer (Cawnpore), dies at 70 1863 Francis E Younghusband, British journalist/explorer 1863 Anthony Hope, British Writer 1862 Gilbert Parker, British Politician 1862 A. C. Benson, British Author 1862 Edward German, Jones, Whitchurch Shropshire, British composer 1861 U.S. removes Confederate officials from British steamer Trent 1861 2nd British Golf Open: Tom Morris Sr shoots a 163 at Prestwick Club 1861 British Post Office Savings Banks opens 1861 Douglas Haig, British Field Marshal, Sudan, WW I 1861 British territorial waters and ports off-limits during Civil War 1860 1st British Golf Open: Willie Park shoots a 164 at Prestwick Club 1860 British and French troops capture Beijing 1860 Sidney Paget, British illustrator, Sherlock Holmes 1860 1st British royalty to visit U.S., Prince of Wales (King Edward VII) 1860 1st British tram opens (Birkenhead) 1860 James M. Barrie, British Playwright 1860 Horatio W. Bottomley, British journalist/swindler 1860 Anna Jameson, British Writer 1859 Lake Nyasa, which forms Malawi's boundary with Tanzania and Mozambique discovered by British explorer David Livingstone 1859 Henry Havelock Ellis, British Psychologist 1859 Henry Ellis, British Psychologist 1859 Lord Curzon, British Statesman 1858 Richard Bright, British Dr. (Bright's disease/nephritis), dies at 69 1858 Andrew Bonar Law, British Prime Minister, C, 1922-23 1858 William Watson, British poet, Prince's Quest, Father of Forest 1858 Baron Lionel de Rothschild is 1st Jew elected to British Parliament 1858 Jewish Disabilities Removal Act passed by British Parliament 1858 Charles Haddon George Alexander, George Samson, British actor 1858 Harry Johnston, British Explorer 1858 Johann Baptist Cramer, German/British pianist/composer/publisher, dies at 87 1858 Frederick Lugard, British captain/baron, Congo 1857 Battle at Chinhat (Indies rebel under Barkat Ahmed beat British) 1857 Edward Elgar, British Composer 1856 Chinese police board British vessel Arrow, arrest 12 Chinese crewmen on suspicion of piracy and lower British flag, begins 2nd Anglo-Chinese War 1856 Violet Paget, Vernon Lee, British author, Satan the master 1856 J Keir Hardie, 1st Labour representative in British Parliament 1856 Richard B. Haldane, British viscount/lord-chancellor, Life of A Smith 1856 Harry A. P. Eyres, British diplomat, Constantinople, Albania 1856 Natal forms as a British colony separate from Cape Colony 1856 Tom Mann, British Businessman 1855 George Edwardes, British composer, Gaiety Girl 1855 Houston S Chamberlain, British/German race theorist 1855 Heavy French/British bombing of Sebastopol, 2000+ killed 1855 Arthur Wing Pinero, British playwright 1855 Henry Rowley Bishop, British composer and conductor, dies at 68 1855 British government of Palmerston forms 1854 Edward Forbes, British Scientist 1854 Crimean War: British and French defeat Russian force of 50,000 1854 Prince Menshikov of Krim occupies British base at Balaclava 1854 The Times give precise British positions in Krim 1854 Battle at Alma Krim: 1,000 British soldiers died 1854 British and French defeat Russians at Alma, in Crimea 1854 Francis Marion Crawford, British author 1854 Charles Algernon Parsons, British inventor, steam turbine 1854 Alfred Milner, born in Giessen, Germany, British governor, Cape colony 1854 British recognize independence of Orange Free State (South Africa) 1853 George Cockburn, British Soldier 1853 Cecil Rhodes, born in Hertfordshire, England, British Statesman, Prime Minister of Cape Colony 1890 - 1896 1853 Hall Caine, British Novelist 1852 John Oxenham, British Journalist 1852 John [Denton Pinkstone] French, Earl of Ypres/British field marshall 1852 British frigate Birkenhead sinks off South Africa-458 die 1852 1st British public female toilet opens (Bedford Street London) 1852 1st British public men's toilet opens (Fleet St. London) 1852 British recognize independence of Transvaal (in South Africa) 1851 J M William Turner, British painter (Rain, Steam and Speed), dies at 76 1851 John Dillon, Irish nationalist and British Lower house member 1851 1st America's Cup-U.S. schooner America beats British yacht Aurora 1850 Brandon Thomas, British Actor 1850 Lord Tennyson becomes British poet laureate 1850 Robert "Bobbie" Peel, British PM/founder London Police, dies at 62 1850 British ex-premier sir Robert Peel falls off his horse 1850 John Collier, British Artist 1850 British blockade Piraeus, Greece to enforce mercantile claims 1849 British seize Tigre Island in Gulf of Fonseca from Honduras 1849 Mehemet Ali, British viceroy to Egypt, dies 1848 William Lamb 2nd viscount Melbourne, British Prime Minister (1834..41), dies at 69 1848 William Lamb Melbourne, British Politician 1848 Arthur Earl Balfour, C, British Prime Minister, 1902-05, Balfour Declaration 1847 Archibald Primrose, Earl of Rosebery, British Prime Minister, 1894 - 1895 1846 C. P. Scott, British Journalist 1846 Battle at Gwanga: British troops beat Bantu 1846 British occupy Sikh citadel of Lahore 1846 British defeat Sikhs in battle of Sobraon, India 1846 Lord Charles Beresford, British Politician 1846 Francis H Bradley, British philosopher, neo-idealism 1846 F. H. Bradley, British Philosopher 1845 George Howard Darwin, British Scientist 1845 Cecil De Vere, 1st official British chess champion, 1866 1844 Arthur O'Shaughnessy, British Poet 1844 Henry Addington Lord Sidmouth, British premier (1801-04), dies at 86 1843 British arrest Irish nationalist Daniel O'Connell for conspiracy 1843 Natal (in South Africa) is made a British colony 1843 Hong Kong proclaimed a British Crown Colony 1843 Henry James, US/British writer/critic, Turn of the Screw, Bostonians 1843 U.S. and British settlers in Oregon Country choose government committee 1842 Arthur Sullivan, British Composer 1842 4,500 British and Indian troops leave Kabul, massacred before India 1841 Thomas Bruce, Count of Elgin and Kincardine, British diplomat, dies 1841 Robert Williams Buchanan, British Poet 1841 William Henry Hudson, British Author 1841 British humor magazine "Punch" 1st published 1841 China cedes Hong Kong to British 1840 John Addington Symonds, British historian and writer, Probs in Greek Ethics 1840 Union Act passed by British Parliament, uniting Upper and Lower Canada 1840 New Zealand became a British colony 1840 British queen Victoria marries her cousin Albert von Saksen-Coburg 1839 1st opium war - 2 British frigates engage several Chinese junks 1839 British troops under General Charles Napier occupy Beirut 1839 British capture Hong Kong from China 1839 Aden conquered by British East India Company 1838 Octavia Hill, British reformer, leader of open-space movement 1838 Emancipation of British slaves on Bahamas 1837 Thomas Babington, British Poet 1837 Queen Victoria at 18 ascends British throne following death of uncle King William IV Ruled for 63 years ending in 1901 1837 1st Mormon missionaries to British Isles leave Kirtland, Ohio 1836 William Gilbert, British Composer 1836 Henry Campbell-Bannerman, British Prime Minister, L, 1905-08 1836 British parliament accept registration of birth/marriage/death 1836 Joseph Chamberlain, British minister of Commerce/Colonies 1836 Lawrence Alma Tadema, Dutch/British painter/husband of Laura Epps 1835 Archibald Geikie, British geologist 1835 John Nash, British town planner/architect (Regent's Park), dies 1835 William Lamb Lord Melbourne forms British Government 1835 Henry Hunt, British politican, dies 1834 John Venn, British Philosopher 1834 Slavery abolished through out the British Empire 1834 Samuel Taylor Coleridge, British poet, dies at 61 1834 James A. McNeill Whistler, US/British painter, Whistler's Mother 1834 Charles Spurgeon, British Clergyman 1834 John Lubbock, British Statesman 1834 Lord Avebury, John Lubbock, British banker/politician 1833 Richard Tangye, British Businessman 1833 John Watkinson, founder of British Chess Magazine, oldest chess mag 1833 British government demands Falkland islands 1832 Frederick Sleigh "Bobs" Roberts, British Governor of Natal, Ireland-Boer war 1832 James Wimshurst, British designer/inventor, electricstatic generator 1832 British Parliament passes reform bill 1830 Henry Peach Robinson, British Photographer 1830 Thomas Edward Brown, British Poet 1830 Robert Cecil, Marquess of Salisbury, C, British Prime Minister, 1885-1902 1828 Lady Caroline Lamb, British Celebrity 1827 George Canning, British minister of Foreign affairs, dies at 57 1827 Duke of Wellington appointed British supreme commander 1825 Dadabhai Naoroji, 1st Indian in British parliament 1825 Henry Fuseli, British Artist 1824 Kelvin, William Thomson, British physicist, Kelvin Scale 1824 George E Street, British architect 1824 Lord Byron, British Poet 1824 Ashantees defeat British at Accra, West Africa 1823 George JD Campbell, Scottish/British Minister to Indies, 1868-74/80-85 1823 Alfred Russel Wallace, British zoologist/co-discoverer, evolution 1822 Frederick "William" Herschel, German/British astronomer, dies at 83 1821 Charles Meryon, British/French etcher 1820 Benjamin Latrobe, British Architect 1820 Benjamin West, British painter (Death of General Wolfe), dies at 81 1819 Henry Brinley Richards, British? pianist/composer 1818 Maratha Wars between British and Maratha Confederacy in India ends 1817 William Bligh, British naval officer of "Bounty" fame, dies at 63 1817 Jane Austen, British Writer 1817 Joseph D Hooker, British botanist 1817 Austen H. Layard, British archaeologist and diplomat 1815 John Singleton Copley, British painter, dies at 77 1815 Edward J Eyre, British explorer/governor, Jamaica 1815 Julia Margaret Cameron, British Photographer 1815 Henry Parkes, British journalist/premier of Australia 1815 Edward Forbes, British Scientist 1814 Americans defeat British at Battle of Plattsburgh 1814 Battle of Lake Champlain, New York; American Navy defeats British 1814 British forces destroy Library of Congress, containing 3,000 books 1814 British forces captured Washington, D.C., and burned down many landmarks 1814 Cape of Good Hope formally ceded to British by the Dutch 1814 Battle of Niagara Falls, Lundy's Lane, ; Americans defeat British 1814 British capture Prairie du Chien (Wisc) 1814 Americans defeat British and Canadians at Chippewa, Ontario 1814 British attack Ft. Ontario, Oswego, New York 1813 British burn Buffalo, New York during War of 1812 1813 British take Ft. Niagara in War of 1812 1813 Battle of Thames in Canada; Americans defeat British 1813 Comm Oliver H Perry defeats British in Battle of Lake Erie 1813 British warship Pelican attacks and captures U.S. war brigantine Argus 1813 British invade Plattsburgh, New York 1813 Arthur Helps, British Historian 1812 U.S. frigate United States captures British vessel Macedonian 1812 Battle of Queenstown Heights, British beats U.S. attempt to invade Canada 1812 U.S. warship Constitution defeats British warship Guerriere 1811 John Bright, British Politician 1810 British frigate Minotaur sinks killing 480 1810 William G Armstrong, of Cragside, Baron/British const, hydr crane 1810 Johann Zoffany, British? painter, dies at 77 1810 Elizabeth Gaskell, British Novelist 1809 William Ewart Gladstone, Lib, British Prime Minister, 1868-74, '80-86, '92-94 1809 William Gladstone, British Leader 1809 Battle at Talavera: British/Spanish army vs French army 1809 Beilby Porteus, British Clergyman 1809 British take Cayenne (French Guiana) from French (until 1814) 1808 Sierra Leone becomes a British colony 1807 British troops lands at Ensenada, Argentina 1807 British board USS Chesapeake, a provocation leading to War of 1812 1807 British Parliament abolishes slave trade 1807 George Canning becomes British minister of Foreign affairs 1807 British squadron under Admiral Duckworth forces passage of Dardanelle 1806 British forces lay siege to French port of Boulogne using Congreve rockets, invented by Sir William Congreve 1806 Buenos Aires captured by British 1806 Dutch in Capetown surrender to British 1805 Lord Nelson, British Soldier 1804 Benjamin Disraeli, Tory, British Prime Minister, 1868, 1874-80 1804 Mary Bright, British Prime Minister Rockingham, dies 1804 Richard Owen, British zoologist 1804 British Vice-Admiral William Blighs fleet reaches Curacao 1803 Susanna Moodie, British Author 1803 James Douglas, father of British Columbia 1801 Battle at Algeciras: British fleet beats French and Spanish 1801 Battle at Algeciras: French fleet beats British 1801 British drive French forces from Abukir, Egypt 1800 Malta surrenders to British after they blockade French troops 1800 Thomas Babington, British Poet 1800 Elizabeth Montagu, British Writer 1800 James Clark Ross, explorer, British Antarctic 1800 Edwin Chadwick, British social reformer 1799 British frigate HMS Lutine sinks off Dutch coast 1799 Edward Stanley, Earl Derby, C, British Prime Minister, 1852, 1858-59, 1866-68 1798 British Honduras beats Spain in battle of St. George 1798 British under Admiral Horatio Nelson beat French at Battle of Nile 1798 British kill about 500 Irish insurgents at the Battle of Tara 1798 George Vancouver, British explorer, (Voyage of Discovery), dies at 40 1798 Duncan Forbes, British Writer 1797 British naval forces defeat Dutch off Camperdown, Netherlands 1797 Anthony Panizzi, Librarian at British Museum 1797 Lord Amherst, British Soldier 1797 Edmund Burke, British aut | |