The Analytical Engine was a proposed mechanical general-purpose computer designed by English mathematician Charles Babbage.

* 1682 – John Hadley, English mathematician and inventor of the octant ( d. 1744 )

* 1923 – G. Spencer-Brown, English mathematician

* 1959 – Stephen Wolfram, English physicist and mathematician

* 1863 – Augustus Edward Hough Love, English mathematician ( d. 1940 )

* 1936 – Karl Pearson, English mathematician ( b. 1857 )

* 1834 – John Venn, English mathematician ( d. 1923 )

Charles Babbage, FRS ( 26 December 1791 – 18 October 1871 ) was an English mathematician, philosopher, inventor and mechanical engineer who originated the concept of a programmable computer.

In the essay a blind English mathematician named Saunderson argues that since knowledge derives from the senses, then mathematics is the only form of knowledge that both he and a sighted person can agree about.

* 1947 – G. H. Hardy, English mathematician ( b. 1877 )

* 1791 – Charles Babbage, English mathematician and inventor ( d. 1871 )

* 1667 – William Whiston, English mathematician ( d. 1752 )

* 1947 – Alfred North Whitehead, English mathematician and philosopher ( b. 1861 )

* 1626 – Edmund Gunter, English mathematician ( b. 1581 )

< td >( Pell's equation ) which is named after the English mathematician John Pell.

* 1861 – Alfred North Whitehead, English mathematician and philosopher ( d. 1947 )

* 1877 – G. H. Hardy, English mathematician ( d. 1947 )

* 1954 – Alan Turing, English mathematician and computer scientist ( b. 1912 )

* 1682 – Roger Cotes, English mathematician ( d. 1716 )

* 1948 – Miles Reid, English mathematician

* 1716 – Roger Cotes, English mathematician ( b. 1682 )

* 1899 – Edward Charles Titchmarsh, English mathematician ( d. 1963 )

* 1611 – John Pell, English mathematician ( d. 1685 )

* 1675 – Humphry Ditton, English mathematician ( d. 1715 )

* 1872 – Bertrand Russell, 3rd Earl Russell, English mathematician, writer, and philosopher, Nobel laureate ( d. 1970 )

Thomas Henry Huxley, an English biologist, coined the word agnostic in 1869.

Azincourt is famous as being near the site of the battle fought on 25 October 1415 in which the army led by King Henry V of England defeated the forces led by Charles d ' Albret on behalf of Charles VI of France, which has gone down in English history as the Battle of Agincourt.

Later on, when he became king in 1509, Henry VIII is supposed to have commissioned an English translation of a Life of Henry V so that he could emulate him, on the grounds that he thought that launching a campaign against France would help him to impose himself on the European stage.

In 1513, Henry VIII conclusively crossed the English Channel and stopped at Azincourt.

* 1810 – Philip Henry Gosse, English naturalist ( d. 1888 )

* 1513 – Edmund de la Pole, Yorkist pretender to the English throne, is executed on the orders of Henry VIII.

* 1844 – James Henry Greathead, English engineer ( d. 1896 )

* 1910 – James Henry Govier, English painter ( d. 1974 )

* 1607 – English colonists make landfall at Cape Henry, Virginia.

Later General Baptists such as John Griffith, Samuel Loveday, and Thomas Grantham defended a Reformed Arminian theology that reflected more the Arminianism of Arminius than that of the later Remonstrants or the English Arminianism of Arminian Puritans like John Goodwin or Anglican Arminians such as Jeremy Taylor and Henry Hammond.

While Wesley freely made use of the term " Arminian ," he did not self-consciously root his soteriology in the theology of Arminius but was highly influenced by 17th-century English Arminianism and thinkers such as John Goodwin, Jeremy Taylor and Henry Hammond of the Anglican " Holy Living " school, and the Remonstrant Hugo Grotius.

* 1730 – Henry Clinton, English general ( d. 1795 )

* 1598 – Nine Years ' War: Battle of the Yellow Ford – Irish forces under Hugh O ' Neill, Earl of Tyrone, defeat an English expeditionary force under Henry Bagenal.

* 1590 – Henry Rich, 1st Earl of Holland, English soldier ( d. 1649 )

But John having died, the Pope and the English aristocracy changed their allegiance to his nine-year-old son, Henry, forcing the French and the Scots armies to return home.

Soon afterwards a claim for homage from Henry of England drew forth from Alexander a counter-claim to the northern English counties.

A threat of invasion by Henry in 1243 for a time interrupted the friendly relations between the two countries ; but the prompt action of Alexander in anticipating his attack, and the disinclination of the English barons for war, compelled him to make peace next year at Newcastle.

* 1958 – Lenny Henry, English comedian, actor, and writer

* 1890 – Samuel Frederick Henry Thompson, English pilot ( d. 1918 )

* 1599 – Henry Wallop, English statesman

During that time he took a great part in the campaigns and negotiations which led to the Treaty of Paris in 1259, under which King Henry III of England recognized his loss of continental territory to France ( including Normandy, Maine, Anjou, and Poitou ) in exchange for France withdrawing support from English rebels.

Henry Sweet incorrectly predicted in 1877 that within a century American English, Australian English and British English would be mutually unintelligible.