Curated category
English people of Irish descent
- Alfred HitchcockAlfred Hitchcock was born on the 13th of August 1899 above a greengrocer's shop at 517 High Road in Leytonstone, Essex. By the time he died in 1980, his…
- David BowieDavid Bowie was born David Robert Jones on the 8th of January 1947 in Brixton, London, and he died two days after releasing his final album, on the 10th of…
- John LennonAt approximately 5:00 p.m. on the 8th of December 1980, John Lennon autographed a copy of his new album for a man named Mark David Chapman outside his New…
- Charlie ChaplinCharlie Chaplin was sent to a workhouse twice before the age of nine. By 14, he had taken his own mother to an infirmary, watched her return to a mental…
- Tom HardyTom Hardy walked into a modelling competition in 1998 at 21 years old and walked out with a contract. That is not how most serious actors begin.
- Margaret ThatcherMargaret Hilda Thatcher arrived at 10 Downing Street on the 4th of May 1979 and kept a portrait of her Oxford chemistry tutor on the wall throughout her time…
- Paul McCartneyPaul McCartney wrote his first song, "I Lost My Little Girl", on a £15 Framus Zenith acoustic guitar he had traded for a nickel-plated trumpet his father…
- Peter O'ToolePeter O'Toole holds a record no actor would wish for. He received eight Academy Award nominations for Best Actor across four decades, and never won a single…
- Ed SheeranEd Sheeran was eleven years old when he heard Eric Clapton walk on stage at the Queen's Golden Jubilee concert in June 2002 and play the opening riff of…
- Kate BushKate Bush was born on the 30th of July 1958 in Bexleyheath, Kent, and by the time she was nineteen she had done something no woman in pop history had ever…
- Judi DenchJudi Dench stood on stage at the Academy Awards in 1999 and, clutching her Oscar, quipped that for eight minutes of screen time she should only get a little…
- George HarrisonGeorge Harrison was born at 12 Arnold Grove in Wavertree, Liverpool, on the 25th of February 1943, in a terraced house on a cul-de-sac with an outdoor toilet…
- Daniel Day-LewisDaniel Day-Lewis was born on the 29th of April 1957 in Kensington, London, to a poet and an actress. Before most people had ever heard his name, he was…
- Alan RickmanAlan Sidney Patrick Rickman was born on the 21st of February 1946 in Brentford, London, and he spent his early years in the shadow of Wormwood Scrubs Prison…
- Alan TuringAlan Turing once chained his tea mug to a radiator pipe at Bletchley Park so it could not be stolen. In the first week of every June he cycled to the office…
- Pete BestPete Best was the drummer for the Beatles from 1960 to 1962, fired ten weeks after the group's first EMI recording session, just before the band became…
- Hilary MantelHilary Mantel stood at the podium at the Guildhall in London in 2009 and told the audience she was "happily flying through the air." She had just won the…
- Sean LennonSean Lennon was born on the 9th of October 1975, at Weill Cornell Medical Center in the Lenox Hill neighborhood of Manhattan, sharing a birthday with his…
- Annie BesantAnnie Besant was born on the 1st of October 1847 in London, the daughter of a man who held a medical degree from Trinity College Dublin and a mother who was…
- John KeeganJohn Desmond Patrick Keegan was born in Clapham, London on the 15th of May 1934. His father served as an Irish First World War veteran before the boy grew up.
- Julian LennonJulian Lennon was born John Charles Julian Lennon on the 8th of April 1963 at Sefton General Hospital in Liverpool, carrying a name almost nobody calls him…
- Harry KaneHarry Edward Kane was born on the 28th of July 1993 at Whipps Cross University Hospital in Leytonstone, London. He grew up in Walthamstow before his family…