** American Roy Sullivan is struck by lightning for the seventh time.

** Roy Halladay, American baseball player

** Brandon Roy, National Basketball Association player

** Roy Jones Jr., American boxer

** Roy D ' Arcy, American actor ( b. 1894 )

** Roy Boulting, English film director and producer ( d. 2001 )

** Roy Saari, American swimmer

** Roy Blount, Jr., American writer and comedian

** Roy Dupuis, Canadian actor

** Roy Roberts, American actor ( d. 1975 )

** James Roy, Australian author

** Roy Dennis, disabled American boy ( d. 1978 )

** Roy Orbison, American singer ( b. 1936 )

** Roy Ward Baker, English film director ( d. 2010 )

** Roy Oliver Disney, brother and business partner of Walter Elias Disney ( d. 1971 )

** Roy Atwell, American actor, comedian, and composer ( b. 1878 )

** Roy Keane, Irish footballer

** Roy Harris, American composer ( b. 1898 )

** Roy Jenkins is elected Leader of the Social Democratic Party.

** Roy Scheider, American film actor ( Jaws ) ( d. 2008 )

** Roy Harris, American composer ( d. 1979 )

** Roy and Walt Disney found The Walt Disney Company.

** Roy Dotrice, British actor

** Kenneth Roy Thomson, 2nd Baron Thomson of Fleet, Canadian businessman and art collector ( d. 2006 )

** British American Racing, a Formula One constructor

** Terminology of the British Isles, discusses the sometimes ambiguous or contentious names for parts of the island group

** bmi baby, a defunct low-cost airline, subsidiary of British Midland International

** bmi regional, a regional airline, subsidiary of British Midland International

** Mine Exploder T2 Flail: British Crab I mine flail.

** Mine Exploder T3 Flail: Based on British Scorpion flail.

** Mine Exploder T4: British Crab II mine flail.

** New England fiddling, with strong influences from Québécois and British repertoires.

** Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

** Petroleum spirit ( North American term: gasoline, British term: petrol )

** Colonial heads of British Cameroon ( Cameroons )

** Lotus F1 Team, a British Formula One team that started competing in 2012 season

** Team Lotus, a British Formula One racing team that competed between 1954 and 1994

** BMS: British Mycological Society ( United Kingdom )

** Norse activity in the British Isles

** British Agricultural Revolution / Neolithic Revolution

** Table of contents, bibliography of On the Origin of Species – links to text and images of all six British editions of The Origin of Species, the 6th edition with additions and corrections ( final text ), the first American edition, and translations into Danish, Dutch, French, German, Polish, Russian and Spanish.

** Online Variorum, showing every change between the six British editions.

** 2 Empire Awards nominations "' Best British Film, Best Sci-Fi / Fantasy "'

** British Independent Film Awards nomination for Best Achievement in Production

** Theatre of the United Kingdom – introduced by the Romans and part of the British culture since at least 1585.

** Community Safety, Enforcement and Policing, responsible for tackling fare evasion on buses, delivering policing services that tackle crime and disorder on public transport in cooperation with the Metropolitan Police Service's Transport Operational Command Unit ( TOCU ) and the British Transport Police.

** Whippet Club of British Columbia

** British Airways inaugurates regular London to New York City supersonic Concorde service.

** Ben Ainslie, British sailor