| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
|---|
| Lawrence Alma-Tadema |
Painter |
8-Jan-1836 |
25-Jun-1912 |
Classicist painter |
| William Waldorf Astor |
Publisher |
31-Mar-1848 |
18-Oct-1919 |
The Observer |
| Hilaire Belloc |
Author |
27-Jul-1870 |
16-Jul-1953 |
The Bad Child's Book of Beasts |
| Max Born |
Physicist |
11-Dec-1882 |
5-Jan-1970 |
Pioneer of quantum mechanics |
| Elias Canetti |
Author |
25-Jul-1905 |
14-Aug-1994 |
Crowds and Power |
| Isaac Casaubon |
Scholar |
18-Feb-1559 |
1-Jul-1614 |
Leading classical scholar |
| Joseph Conrad |
Author |
3-Dec-1857 |
3-Aug-1924 |
Heart of Darkness |
| Richard Dalitz |
Physicist |
28-Feb-1925 |
13-Jan-2006 |
Dalitz pairs and Dalitz plots |
| Luol Deng |
Basketball |
16-Apr-1985 |
|
Chicago Bulls forward |
| Artur Ekert |
Physicist |
19-Sep-1961 |
|
Quantum cryptography |
| Otto Robert Frisch |
Physicist |
1-Oct-1904 |
22-Sep-1979 |
Described fission |
| Klaus Fuchs |
Physicist |
29-Dec-1911 |
28-Jan-1988 |
Manhattan Project scientist, spy for USSR |
| Dennis Gabor |
Physicist |
5-Jun-1900 |
8-Feb-1979 |
Inventor of holography |
| Max Geldray |
Jazz Musician |
12-Feb-1916 |
2-Oct-2004 |
Conks of The Goon Show |
| King George II |
Royalty |
10-Nov-1683 |
25-Oct-1760 |
King of Britain, 1727-60 |
| J. Paul Getty, Jr. |
Business |
7-Sep-1932 |
17-Apr-2003 |
Heir to the Getty Oil fortune |
| Terry Gilliam |
Film Director |
22-Nov-1940 |
|
Monty Python alumnus, Brazil |
| Emma Goldman |
Anarchist |
27-Jun-1869 |
14-May-1940 |
Anarchist and feminist libertarian |
| George Frideric Handel |
Composer |
23-Feb-1685 |
14-Apr-1759 |
Messiah |
| F. A. Hayek |
Economist |
8-May-1899 |
23-Mar-1992 |
Austrian economist |
| Otto Kahn |
Business |
21-Feb-1867 |
29-Mar-1934 |
Banker with Kuhn, Loeb & Co. |
| Bernard Katz |
Scientist |
26-Mar-1911 |
20-Apr-2003 |
Neurotransmitters and the pineal gland |
| Nicholas Kemmer |
Physicist |
7-Dec-1911 |
21-Oct-1998 |
Nuclear weapons and reactors |
| Arthur Koestler |
Author |
3-Sep-1905 |
3-Mar-1983 |
Darkness at Noon |
| Alexander Korda |
Film Director |
16-Sep-1893 |
23-Jan-1956 |
The Private Life of Henry VIII |
| Hans Krebs |
Scientist |
25-Apr-1900 |
22-Nov-1981 |
Tricarboxylic acid cycle |
| Nicholas Kurti |
Physicist |
14-May-1908 |
24-Nov-1998 |
Molecular gastronomy |
| Abu Hamza al-Masri |
Religion |
15-Apr-1958 |
|
Imam of Finsbury Park Mosque |
| Sir Hiram Maxim |
Inventor |
5-Feb-1840 |
24-Nov-1916 |
Maxim machine gun |
| Kurt Mendelssohn |
Mathematician |
7-Jan-1906 |
18-Sep-1980 |
Cryogenics and pyramids |
| César Milstein |
Scientist |
8-Oct-1927 |
24-Mar-2002 |
Hybridoma technique (monoclonal antibodies) |
| Sir Anthony Panizzi |
Curator |
16-Sep-1797 |
8-Apr-1879 |
Librarian of the British Museum |
| Rudolf Peierls |
Physicist |
5-Jun-1907 |
19-Sep-1995 |
Frisch-Peierls Memorandum |
| Vladimir Peniakoff |
Military |
30-Mar-1897 |
May-1951 |
Head of Popski's Private Army |
| Prince Philip |
Royalty |
10-Jun-1921 |
|
Duke of Edinburgh |
| Karl Popper |
Philosopher |
28-Jul-1902 |
17-Sep-1994 |
Critical Rationalist |
| Joseph Rotblat |
Physicist |
4-Nov-1908 |
31-Aug-2005 |
Nuclear physicist, anti-nuke activist |
| Salman Rushdie |
Novelist |
19-Jun-1947 |
|
The Satanic Verses |
| Marjorie Scardino |
Business |
25-Jan-1947 |
|
CEO of Pearson |
| David Soul |
Actor |
28-Aug-1946 |
|
Hutch on Starsky and Hutch |
| Nikolaas Tinbergen |
Zoologist |
15-Apr-1907 |
21-Dec-1988 |
Grand Master of Ethology |
| Wilfrid Voynich |
Activist |
31-Oct-1865 |
19-Mar-1930 |
Voynich manuscript |
| Chaim Weizmann |
Head of State |
27-Nov-1874 |
9-Nov-1952 |
First President of Israel |
| Ludwig Wittgenstein |
Philosopher |
26-Apr-1889 |
29-Apr-1951 |
Destroyed metaphysics |
| Terry Wogan |
Radio Personality |
3-Aug-1938 |
|
BBC's Wake Up To Wogan |
