1910 in the United Kingdom

Undated

Publications

Births

• 2 January – Kingsley Dunham, geologist (died 2001)
• 9 January – Tom Evenson, runner (died 1997)
• 11 January – Maurice Buckmaster, head of Special Operations Executive (died 1992)
• 15 January – Stephen Gilbert, artist (died 2007)
• 28 January – Hopper Read, cricketer (died 2000)
• 29 January – Colin Middleton, artist (died 1983)
• 8 February – G. E. M. de Ste. Croix, historian (died 2000)
• 10 February – Joyce Grenfell, actress, comedian and singer-songwriter (died 1979)
• 11 February – L. T. C. Rolt, writer (died 1974)
• 13 February – William Shockley, physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1989)
• 21 February – Douglas Bader, World War II fighter pilot (died 1982)
• 1 March
• Archer Martin, chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2002)
• David Niven, actor (died 1983)
• 4 March – Basil Boothroyd, humorous writer (died 1988)
• 17 March – Molly Weir, actress (died 2004)
• 22 March – Nicholas Monsarrat, novelist (died 1979)
• 23 March – Jerry Cornes, athlete (born in India; died 2001)
• 27 March – Robert Harling, typographer (died 2008)
• 31 March – Edward Seago, artist (died 1974)
• 6 April – Desmond Dreyer, admiral (died 2003)
• 8 April – Denis Redman, major-general (died 2009)
• 14 April – Kathleen Sully, novelist (died 2001)
• 19 April – Humphrey Spender, photojournalist (died 2005)
• 3 May – Bernard Orchard, biblical scholar (died 2006)
• 5 May – Charles Harington, Army officer (died 2007)
• 10 May – Arthur Marshall, writer and broadcaster (died 1989)
• 12 May – Dorothy Hodgkin, chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1994)
• 16 May
• Noreen Branson, communist activist (died 2003)
• Richard Usborne, journalist and author (born in India; died 2006)
• 22 May – Molly Lamont, actress (born in India; died 2001)
• 25 May – Edward Harrison, cricketer (died 2002)
• 28 May – Rachel Kempson, actress (died 2003)
• 30 May – Harry Bernstein, author (died 2011)
• 1 June – Robert Megarry, judge (died 2006)
• 3 June – Wilfred Thesiger, soldier and explorer (died 2003)
• 4 June – Christopher Cockerell, inventor (died 1999)
• 6 June – Dorothy Carrington, writer (died 2002)
• 12 June – Bill Naughton, playwright (died 1992)
• 13 June
• Bill Alexander, communist activist and Spanish Civil War commander (died 2000)
• Mary Whitehouse, 'Clean-Up TV' and Christian morality campaigner (died 2001)
• 15 June – Alf Pearson, singer and part of Bob and Alf Pearson double act (died 2012)
• 17 June
• Sam Costa, crooner, radio actor and disc jockey (died 1981)
• Diana Mosley, socialite (died 2003)
• 18 June – M. S. Bartlett, statistician (died 2002)
• 21 June – Clive Sansom, poet and playwright (died 1981)
• 22 June
• Peter Pears, tenor (died 1986)
• Anne Ziegler, soprano (died 2003)
• 28 June – Barbara Bailey, nun and artist (died 2003)
• 3 July – Bernard Burrows, diplomat (died 2002)
• 7 July – Edgar Claxton, rail engineer (died 2000)
• 11 July – Hugh B. Cave, science fiction writer (died 2004)
• 14 July – Vincent Brome, biographer and novelist (died 2004)
• 20 July – Veronica Wedgwood, historian (died 1997)
• 24 July – Edward Ford, courtier (died 2006)
• 4 August – William Cooper, novelist (died 2002)
• 5 August – Jacquetta Hawkes, prehistoric archaeologist (died 1996)
• 8 August – Jimmy Murphy, football player and manager (died 1989)
• 11 August – Hermione Hammond, painter (died 2005)
• 19 August – Gerald Ellison, Bishop of London (died 1992)
• 20 August – Harry Errington, World War II firefighter (died 2004)
• 26 August – Katherine Fryer, artist (died 2017)
• 2 September – Donald Watson, animal rights activist, pioneer of veganism (died 2005)
• 5 September – Leila Mackinlay, romance writer (died 1996)
• 10 September
• Eric de Maré, architectural photographer (died 2002)
• Betty Neels, novelist (died 2001)
• Denis Richards, historian (died 2004)
• 11 September – Donald Wilson, screenwriter and television producer (died 2002)
• 15 September – Robert Carter, Royal Air Force officer (died 2012)
• 30 September – Edward Hyams, author, historian and gardener (died 1975)
• 6 October – Barbara Castle, politician (died 2002)
• 16 October
• Misha Black, architect and designer (died 1977)
• Will Reed, composer (died 2002)
• 20 October – Hopper Read, cricketer (died 2000)
• 29 October – A. J. Ayer, philosopher (died 1989)
• 31 October – Victor Rothschild, 3rd Baron Rothschild, banker, zoologist and intelligence officer (died 1990)
• 8 November – Denis Mahon, art historian and collector (died 2011)
• 14 November – Eric Malpass, novelist (died 1996)
• 15 November – Hugh Greene, television director and journalist (died 1987)
• 19 November – Griffith Jones, actor (died 2007)
• 20 November – George Devine, theatrical manager (died 1966)
• 29 November – Hans Singer, German-born economist (died 2006)
• 1 December – Alicia Markova, ballerina (died 2004)
• 2 December – Penelope Aitken, socialite (died 2005)
• 3 December – Jane Shaw, children's author (died 2000)
• 4 December – Harry Wingfield, illustrator (died 2002)
• 16 December – Derek Bryan, diplomat, sinologist and writer (died 2003)
• 18 December – Leon Greenman, anti-fascist campaigner (died 2008)
• 19 December – Billie Yorke, tennis player (died 2000)
• 25 December – Howard Johnson, politician (died 2000)
• 29 December – Ronald Coase, economist Nobel Prize laureate (died 2013)

Deaths

• 27 January – Thomas Crapper, inventor (born 1836)
• 3 May – Lottie Collins, singer and dancer (born 1865)
• 6 May – Edward VII (born 1841)
• 10 May – Anna Laetitia Waring, poet (born 1823)
• 12 May – Sir William Huggins, astronomer (born 1824)
• 31 May – Elizabeth Blackwell, American-domiciled abolitionist and women's rights activist (born 1821)
• 7 June – Goldwin Smith, historian (born 1823)
• 9 June – Sir George Newnes, periodical publisher (born 1851)
• 12 July – Charles Rolls, aviator and automobile manufacturer (born 1877)
• 13 August – Florence Nightingale, nurse (born 1820)
• 7 September – William Holman Hunt, painter (born 1827)
• 12 September – Cuthbert A. Brereton, civil engineer (born 1850)
• 19 September – William Maclagan, Archbishop of York (born 1826)
• 29 December – Reginald Doherty, tennis player (born 1872)

See also

• List of British films before 1920

References