* Alfred Austin ( 1835 – 1913 ), British poet

* 1884 – J. C. Squire, British poet, writer, and historian ( d. 1958 )

Anne Brontë (; 17 January 1820 – 28 May 1849 ) was a British novelist and poet, the youngest member of the Brontë literary family.

Charles began his career as a contemporary and urban performance poet on the British cabaret circuit.

* 1875 – Evelyn Underhill, British poet ( d. 1941 )

* 1754 – George Crabbe, British poet and naturalist ( d. 1832 )

* 1822 – Matthew Arnold, British poet ( d. 1888 )

* His collection of short stories, " Worlds Enough & Time ", takes its name from the first line of the poem To His Coy Mistress by British poet Andrew Marvell: ' Had we but world enough, and time ,'.

In the 1890s, English socialist poet Edward Carpenter and Scottish anarchist John Henry Mackay wrote in defense of same-sex love and androgyny ; Carpenter and British homosexual rights advocate John Addington Symonds contributed to the development of Havelock Ellis's groundbreaking book Sexual Inversion, which called for tolerance towards " inverts " and was suppressed when first published in England.

* 1932 – Peter Redgrove, British poet ( d. 2003 )

The expression, " the noble savage " was first used in 1672 by British poet John Dryden in his play The Conquest of Granada.

* 1927 – Charles Tomlinson, British poet and translator

Mervyn Laurence Peake ( 9 July 1911 – 17 November 1968 ) was a British writer, artist, poet and illustrator.

* 1806 – Elizabeth Barrett Browning, British poet ( d. 1861 )

* 1781 – Ebenezer Elliott, British poet ( d. 1849 )

* 1893 – Wilfred Owen, British poet ( d. 1918 )

* Geraldine Monk ( born 1952 ), British poet

* 1757 – William Blake, British poet ( d. 1827 )

* 1896 – Coventry Patmore, British poet ( b. 1823 )

* 1800 – Thomas Macaulay, British poet, historian, and politician ( d. 1859 )

* 1795 – John Keats, British poet ( d. 1821 )

The British poet Ted Hughes titled a 1973 collection of poems Prometheus On His Crag.

* 16-Peter Redgrove, 71, British poet.

* 27-Ken Smith, 64, British poet.

* 6-Kathleen Raine, 95, British poet and literary critic.

John Adams asserted in the Continental Congress' Declaration of Rights that the demands of the colonies were in accordance with their charters, the British Constitution and the common law, and Jefferson appealed in the Declaration of Independence `` to the tribunal of the world '' for support of a revolution justified by `` the laws of nature and of nature's God ''.

The outstanding example was in Garibaldi And The Thousand, where he made use of unpublished papers of Lord John Russell and English consular materials to reveal the motives which led the British government to permit Garibaldi to cross the Straits of Messina.

* 1849 – John William Waterhouse, British painter ( d. 1917 )

* 1820 – John Tyndall, British physicist ( d. 1893 )

This theory was developed by the British chemist and physicist John Dalton in the 18th century.

* 1777 – American Revolutionary War: The Americans led by General John Stark rout British and Brunswick troops under Friedrich Baum at the Battle of Bennington in Walloomsac, New York.

* 1800 – John Appold, British fur dyer and engineer ( d. 1865 )

Influenced by his " favorite living hero in public life ", the British liberal, John Bright, Carnegie started his efforts in pursuit of world peace at a young age.

British philosopher John Locke argued that moral rules cannot be established from conscience because the differences in people's consciences would lead to contradictions.

Sir Andrew John Wiles, KBE, FRS ( born 11 April 1953 ) is a British mathematician and a Royal Society Research Professor at Oxford University, specializing in number theory.

* Christopher Hjort Strange Brew: Eric Clapton and the British Blues Boom, 1965-1970, foreword by John Mayall, Jawbone, 2007.

A colony there would be of great assistance to the British Navy in facilitating attacks on the Spanish possessions in Chile and Peru, as Banks's collaborators, James Matra, Captain Sir George Young and Sir John Call pointed out in written proposals on the subject.

Meanwhile, in 1868, tombs at Ialysus in Rhodes had yielded to Alfred Biliotti many fine painted vases of styles which were called later the third and fourth " Mycenaean "; but these, bought by John Ruskin, and presented to the British Museum, excited less attention than they deserved, being supposed to be of some local Asiatic fabric of uncertain date.

* 1976 – Former British Cabinet Minister John Stonehouse resigns from the Labour Party.

John T. Arundel and Company, a British firm using a competing claim to the island by the UK, made the island its headquarters for its guano-digging operations in the Pacific from 1886 to 1891.

Citing research by John Green, who found that several contemporary British Columbia newspapers regarded the alleged capture as very dubious, Clark notes that the Mainland Guardian of New Westminster, British Columbia, wrote, " Absurdity is written on the face of it.

With the assistance of John Nash and David Heller, both British members of the Borland Board, the company was taken public on London's Unlisted Securities Market ( USM ) in 1986.

While the British military historian Sir John Keegan suggested an ideal definition of battle as " something which happens between two armies leading to the moral then physical disintegration of one or the other of them ", the origins and outcomes of battles can rarely be summarized so neatly.

British general John Moore, who met Nelson in Naples at this time, described him as " covered with stars, medals and ribbons, more like a Prince of Opera than the Conqueror of the Nile.

For instance, John Stuart Mill famously suggested that " the Battle of Marathon, even as an event in British history, is more important than the Battle of Hastings ".

John Stuart Mill's famous opinion was that " the Battle of Marathon, even as an event in British history, is more important than the Battle of Hastings ".

John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough was one of the first generals in the British Army, fighting campaigns in the War of the Spanish Succession.

* British Security Policy in Ireland, 1920-1921 Ainsworth, John S. ( 2001 ) Australian Journal of Irish Studies, 1. pp. 176 – 190

Although British Prime Minister John Major rejected John Hume's requests for a public inquiry into the killings, his successor, Tony Blair, decided to start one.