page_title: 1900 in the United Kingdom
section_title: Births
hierarchical_section_title: 1900 in the United Kingdom / Births
caption_attribution_description: Portrait of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother painted by Richard Stone in 1986.
context_page_description: Events from the year 1900 in the United Kingdom.
context_section_description: 1 January
  Roger Maxwell, film actor (died 1971)
  Lillian Rich, silent film actress (died 1954)
  2 January – Una Ledingham, physician, specialist in diabetes mellitus and pregnancy (died 1965)
  4 January – William Young, World War I veteran (died 2007)
  20 January – Dorothy Annan, painter, potter and muralist (died 1983)
  23 January – William Ifor Jones, composer (died 1988)
  6 February – Guy Warrack, Scottish-born conductor (died 1986)
  12 February
  Robert Boothby, politician (died 1986)
  Fred Emney, comic performer (died 1980)
  20 February – Bernard Knowles, cinematographer and screenwriter (died 1975)
  3 March
  Edna Best, stage, film and early television actress (died 1974 in Switzerland)
  Basil Bunting, modernist poet (died 1985)
  29 March – Margaret Sinclair, Scottish-born nun (died 1925)
  31 March – Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester (died 1974)
  3 April – Albert Ingham, mathematician (died 1967)
  9 April – Mary Potter, painter (died 1981)
  19 April – Richard Hughes, novelist (died 1976)
  22 April – Nellie Beer, Conservative politician, Lord Mayor of Manchester (died 1988)
  24 April – Elizabeth Goudge, novelist (died 1984)
  30 April – Cecily Lefort, World War II heroine, spy for SOE (executed 1945 in Germany)
  2 May – A. W. Lawrence, Classical archaeologist (died 1991)
  5 May – Harold Tamblyn-Watts, comic strip artist (died 1999)
  10 May – Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, astronomer and astrophysicist (died 1979 in the United States)
  24 May – Sonia Cubitt, née Keppel, baroness, grandmother of Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall (died 1986)
  27 May – Ethel Lang, née Lancaster, supercentenarian (died 2015)
  29 May – David Maxwell Fyfe, 1st Earl of Kilmuir, Scottish-born politician, lawyer and judge, Lord Chancellor (died 1967)
  30 May – Gerald Gardiner, Lord Chancellor (died 1990)
  6 June
  Arthur Askey, comedian (died 1982)
  Lester Matthews, actor (died 1975)
  17 June – Evelyn Irons, Scottish-born journalist, war correspondent (died 2000)
  25 June
  Philip D'Arcy Hart, medical researcher, pioneer in tuberculosis treatment (died 2006)
  Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, Admiral of the Fleet and last Viceroy of India (assassinated 1979 in Ireland)
  26 June – John Benham, 400m runner (died 1990)
  30 June – James Stagg, Scottish-born meteorologist (died 1975)
  2 July
  Tyrone Guthrie, theatre director (died 1971 in Ireland)
  Sophie Harris, theatre and opera costume and scenic designer (died 1966)
  10 July – Evelyn Laye, actress (died [1996)
  4 August – Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, queen consort of George VI and later Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother (died 2002)
  17 August – Vivienne de Watteville, adventurer (died 1957)
  19 August – Gilbert Ryle, philosopher (died 1976)
  27 August – Frank Moody, Welsh boxer (died 1963)
  25 August – Isobel Hogg Kerr Beattie, Scottish architect (died 1970)
  4 September – Maxwell Knight, spymaster and naturalist (died 1968)
  8 September – Tilly Devine, organised crime boss (died 1970 in Australia)
  9 September – James Hilton, novelist and screenwriter (died 1954 in the United States)
  11 September – Jimmy Brain, footballer (died 1971)
  12 September – Eric Thiman, composer (died 1975)
  1 October – Tom Goddard, cricketer (died 1966)
  2 October – Isabella Forshall, paediatric surgeon (died 1989)
  6 October – Stan Nichols, cricketer (died 1961)
  8 October – Geoffrey Jellicoe, landscape architect (died 1996)
  9 October – Alastair Sim, character actor (died 1976)
  14 October – Roland Penrose, Surrealist painter and art collector (died 1984)
  16 October – Edward Ardizzone, painter, printmaker and author (born in Vietnam; died 1979)
  5 November – Ethelwynn Trewavas, ichthyologist (died 1993)
  20 November – Helen Bradley, painter (died 1979)
  22 November – Tom Macdonald, Welsh journalist and novelist (died 1980)
  28 November – Edwina Mountbatten, Countess Mountbatten of Burma, née Ashley (died 1960)
  4 December – John Axon, railwayman hero (killed in accident 1957)
  16 December – V. S. Pritchett, short story writer (died 1997)
  17 December – Mary Cartwright, mathematician (died 1998)
  22 December – Alan Bush, pianist, composer and conductor (died 1995)
  26 December – Evelyn 
caption: Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother
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