Curated category
English people of Welsh descent
- Jude LawDavid Jude Heyworth Law arrived in the London borough of Lewisham on the 29th of December 1972. His parents were both teachers who had married five years…
- John LennonJohn Winston Lennon was born on the 9th of October 1940 at Liverpool Maternity Hospital. His father Alfred worked as a merchant seaman and was away during…
- Henry VIIIHenry VIII was born on the 28th of June 1491 at the Palace of Placentia in Greenwich, Kent. He entered the world as the third child and second son of King…
- Keira KnightleyKeira Christina Knightley was born on the 26th of March 1985 in the southwestern London suburb of Teddington. Her father Will Knightley worked as a stage…
- David CameronDavid William Donald Cameron was born on the 9th of October 1966 at the London Clinic in Marylebone, London. He grew up at Peasemore in Berkshire with two…
- AdeleAdele Laurie Blue Adkins was born on the 5th of May 1988 in Tottenham, London. Her mother Penny worked as a furniture maker while her father Marc Evans left…
- Elizabeth IElizabeth was born on the 7th of September 1533 at Greenwich Palace. Her mother Anne Boleyn had been Henry VIII's second wife.
- Sacha Baron CohenSacha Noam Baron Cohen entered the world on the 13th of October 1971 within the Hammersmith area of London. He was born into an English Ashkenazi Jewish…
- Julie ChristieJulie Frances Christie entered the world on the 14th of April 1940 at Singlijan, a tea estate in Chabua, Assam. Her father Frank St John Christie managed the…
- George EliotMary Ann Evans was born on the 22nd of November 1819 at South Farm, part of the Arbury Hall estate in Nuneaton, Warwickshire.
- Oliver CromwellOliver Cromwell was born on the 25th of April 1599 in Huntingdon to Robert Cromwell and Elizabeth Steward. His family estate derived from his…
- Lady Jane GreyJane Grey sat in the presence of her father or mother, speaking, keeping silence, sitting, standing, going, eating, drinking, merrily or sadly.
- Allan WilliamsAllan Richard Williams entered the world on the 21st of February 1930 in Bootle, England. His father worked as a local council building inspector and dance…
- Gareth Edwards (filmmaker)Gareth James Edwards was born on the 13th of July 1975 in Nuneaton, Warwickshire to Welsh parents. He wanted to direct his own films since childhood after…
- Alan RickmanAlan Sidney Patrick Rickman was born on the 21st of February 1946 in Brentford, London. He grew up in Acton, a district to the west of Wormwood Scrubs Prison.
- Mary Tudor, Queen of FranceMary Tudor entered the world at Shene Palace on the 18th of March 1496. She was the fifth child of Henry VII and Elizabeth of York, yet the youngest to…
- Petula ClarkSally Clark entered the world on the 15th of November 1932 in Ewell, Surrey. Her parents worked as nurses at Long Grove Hospital in Epsom.
- John DeeJohn Dee was born in the Tower Ward of London on the 13th of July 1527. His father Rowland Dee served as a mercer and courtier to Henry VIII.
- Diana Wynne JonesDiana Wynne Jones was born on the 16th of August 1934 in London. Her fifth birthday arrived just as World War II began. Shortly after that celebration, she…
- Sean LennonSean Taro Ono Lennon entered the world at Weill Cornell Medical Center in Manhattan on the 9th of October 1975. This date marked his father John Lennon's…
- Henry FitzRoy, Duke of Richmond and SomersetHenry FitzRoy entered the world in June 1519, born to Henry VIII and his mistress Elizabeth Blount. The timing of this birth was calculated with precision to…