* 1944 – Richard Bradshaw British conductor

* 1899 – John Barbirolli, British conductor ( d. 1970 )

* 1921 – John Pritchard, British conductor ( d. 1989 )

* 1944 – Andrew Davis, British conductor

* 1941 – Iona Brown, British violinist and conductor ( d. 2004 )

* 1943 – Richard Armstrong, British conductor

** Alexander Gibson, British conductor and founder of the Scottish Opera

** Iona Brown, British violinist and conductor ( d. 2004 )

** Harry Rabinowitz, British film composer and conductor

** David Wickham, British concert pianist, Musical Director and conductor.

** Henry Wood, British conductor ( d. 1944 )

The music of Berlioz enjoyed a revival during the 1960s and 1970s, due in large part to the efforts of French conductor Charles Munch and of British conductor Sir Colin Davis, who recorded his entire oeuvre, bringing to light a number of Berlioz's lesser-known works.

* Nickname of Henry Joseph Wood, British orchestral conductor

Edward Benjamin Britten, Baron Britten, OM CH ( 22 November 1913 – 4 December 1976 ) was an English composer, conductor, and pianist ; and one of the central figures of twentieth-century British classical music.

* Jonathan Darlington, British conductor, Music Director of the Duisburg Philharmonic Orchestra and Vancouver Opera

* Stephen Darlington, British choral director and conductor

Leonard Constant Lambert ( 23 August 190521 August 1951 ) was a British composer and conductor.

* Alexander Shelley, a British conductor

* Norman Del Mar, British orchestral conductor

* Benjamin Britten ( 1913 – 1976 ), British composer, conductor, and pianist

* Thomas Beecham ( chemist ) ( 1820 – 1907 ), British chemist, grandfather of the conductor

* Thomas Beecham ( 1879-1961 ), British conductor

* Betty Humby Beecham ( died 1958 ), British pianist and wife of the conductor Thomas Beecham

Leonard Slatkin, chief conductor of the BBC Symphony Orchestra from 2000 – 2004, expressed a desire to tone down the nationalism of the Last Night somewhat, and on the Last Night of the seasons from 2002 until 2007 Rule Britannia has only been heard as part of Henry Wood's Fantasia on British Sea Songs ( another piece traditional to the Last Night ) rather than separately.

A British Mark I " male " tank, 1916

Tank or " landship " development, originally conducted by the British Navy under the auspices of the Landships Committee was sponsored by the First Lord of the Admiralty, Winston Churchill and proceeded through a number of prototypes culminating in the Mark I tank prototype, named Mother.

The first tank to engage in battle was designated D1, a British Mark I, during the Battle of Flers-Courcelette ( part of the Somme Offensive ) on 15 September 1916.

The first tank versus tank action took place on 24 April 1918 at Second Battle of Villers-Bretonneux, when three British Mark IVs met an advance of three German A7Vs, supported by infantry.

* 1918 – First tank-to-tank combat, at Villers-Bretonneux, France, when three British Mark IVs met three German A7Vs.

The British Railways Mark 1 coach brought into production in 1950 used the BR1 bogie, which was rated to run at.

The British Rail Mark 2 coach, however, carried the B4 bogies from new.

The BT10 bogie was introduced on the British Rail Mark 3 coach in the 1970s.

British Mark I tank during the First World War.

* 1960 – Mark Brydon, British musician ( Moloko )

Financial backers included Sir Mark Thatcher, son of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and possibly the British novelist Jeffrey Archer.

* Sir Mark Evelyn Heath-Diplomat, British Ambassador to Chad ( 1975 – 1978 ), the first British Ambassador to Holy See ( 1982 – 1985 ) and Head of Protocol for the Hong Kong Government ( 1985 – 1988 ).

Conversely, BBC critic Mark Kermode believes that " the movie industries of Britain and America are inextricably intertwined ", citing numerous examples of how Hollywood provides work to British production staff and studios, whilst Britain enables Hollywood to base their prestigious productions at UK studios.

* 1980 – Mark Watson, British comedian

* Simpson, Mark S. ( 1986 ) The Russian Gothic Novel and its British Antecedents, Slavica Publishers

The British Congreve rockets used 62. 4 % saltpeter, 23. 2 % charcoal and 14. 4 % sulfur, but the British Mark VII gunpowder was changed to 65 % saltpeter, 20 % charcoal and 15 % sulfur.

* 2011 – Mark Ryan, British musician ( Adam and the Ants ) ( b. 1959 )

* 1963 – Mark Moraghan, British actor and singer

* 1967 – Mark Lamarr, British comedian and broadcaster

Lemmy also took part in a comedy skit titled " The Easy Guitar Book Sketch " with comedian Rowland Rivron and fellow British musicians Mark Knopfler, David Gilmour, Mark King from Level 42, and Gary Moore.

* Underground ( 2007 film ), a British independent film starring Mark Strange