* Sir Maurice de Bunsen ( 1852 – 1932 ), British diplomat

Guest was born in New York City, the son of Peter Haden-Guest, a British United Nations diplomat who later became The 4th Baron Haden-Guest, and his second wife, Jean Pauline Hindes, a former vice president of casting at CBS.

Sir Robert Gordon, younger brother of the fourth Earl, was a diplomat and served as British Ambassador to Austria.

Britain became increasingly worried about the situation in Turkey and Prime Minister Aberdeen sent Lord Stratford de Redcliffe, a diplomat with vast experience in Turkey, as a special envoy to the Ottoman Empire to guard British interests.

* 1916 – The Irish Nationalist and British diplomat Sir Roger Casement is sentenced to death for his part in the Easter Rising.

* 1963 – The British Government admits that former diplomat Kim Philby had worked as a Soviet agent.

In December 2006, Major led calls for an independent inquiry into Tony Blair's decision to invade Iraq, following revelations made by Carne Ross, a former British senior diplomat, that contradict Blair's case for the invasion.

* Sir John McLeavy Brown ( 1835 – 1926 ), British lawyer and diplomat

* 2-Laurence O ' Keeffe, 71, British diplomat.

* 20-Roger Short, 58, British diplomat, consul-general in Istanbul.

* Cecil Spring-Rice, British diplomat, Ambassador to the United States from 1912 to 1918

The system was refined in 1912 by Herbert Allen Giles, a British diplomat in China and his son, Lionel Giles, a curator at the British Museum.

* August 26 – Sir Ernest Satow, British diplomat and scholar ( b. 1843 )

** William Plunket, 5th Baron Plunket, British diplomat and administrator ( b. 1864 )

* November 25 – Benjamin Bathurst, a British diplomat, mysteriously disappears ( possibly murdered ) in Perleberg, west of Berlin.

* September 15 – George Stepney, British poet and diplomat ( b. 1663 )

* December 30 – William Hamilton, British diplomat and antiquary ( d. 1803 )

* December 23 – First Anglo-Afghan War: At a meeting with the Afghan general Akbar Khan, the British diplomat Sir William Hay Macnaghten is shot dead at close quarters.

* June 30 – Sir Ernest Satow, British diplomat and scholar ( d. 1928 )

* March 20 – James Justinian Morier, British diplomat and author ( b. 1780 )

* October 11 – William John Napier, 9th Lord Napier, British Navy officer, politician and diplomat ( b. 1786 )

** James Justinian Morier, British diplomat and novelist ( d. 1849 )

* June 18 – Viscount Castlereagh, British statesman, diplomat, and soldier ( d. 1822 )

* Alfred Austin ( 1835 – 1913 ), British poet

Alfred Russel Wallace, OM, FRS ( 8 January 1823 – 7 November 1913 ) was a British naturalist, explorer, geographer, anthropologist and biologist.

In Alfred Duggan's Conscience of the King, a historical novel about Cerdic, founder of the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Wessex, Ambrosius Aurelianus is a Romano-British general who rose independently to military power, forming alliances with various British kings and setting out to drive the invading Saxons from Britain.

* Mount Alfred, British Columbia, Canada

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.

Subsequently HM Sultan Jamalul Ahlam Kiram ( 1863 – 1881 ), the 29th reigning Sultan of Sulu, leased North Borneo in 1878 to Gustavus Baron de Overbeck and Alfred Dent, representing the British North Borneo Company in what is now the Malaysian state of Sabah.

* 1988 – Alfred Enoch, British actor

* 1860 – Alfred Bunn, British theatrical manager ( b. 1796 )

Young and Innocent ( U. S. title: The Girl Was Young ) is a 1937 British film directed by Alfred Hitchcock and starring Nova Pilbeam, Derrick De Marney and John Longden.

The British directors Alfred Hitchcock and David Lean are among the most critically acclaimed of all-time, with other important directors including Charlie Chaplin, Michael Powell, Carol Reed and Ridley Scott.

However, many British film-makers learnt their craft making these films, including Michael Powell and Alfred Hitchcock.

Alfred Hitchcock's Blackmail ( 1929 ) is often regarded as the first British sound feature.

Meanwhile the German Navy under Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz had ambitions to rival the great British Navy, and dramatically expanded its fleet in the early 20th century to protect the colonies and exert power worldwide.

British born director Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho ( 1960 ), was the first " slasher " movie, while in the same director's The Birds ( 1963 ) menace stems from nature gone mad.

* 1899 – Alfred Sisley, British impressionist painter ( b. 1839 )

* 1934 – Alfred Rawlinson, British soldier and polo player ( b. 1867 )

* 1867 – Alfred Rawlinson, British soldier and sportsman ( d. 1934 )

* 1823 – Alfred Russel Wallace, British naturalist and biologist ( d. 1913 )

1927 saw the publication of Trader Horn, the memoir of Alfred Aloysius Smith, who had worked for a British trading company in what is now Gabon in the late 1800s.

In 1869 British naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace, co-creator of modern Evolutionary theory published his account of Malaysia's wildlife: " The Malay Archipelago: The Land of the Orang-Utan and the Bird of Paradise ".

* 1910 – Alfred Ayer, British philosopher ( d. 1989 )

Like some other British scientists of the nineteenth century such as Alfred Russel Wallace, Huxley was brought up in a literate middle-class family which had fallen on hard times.

In 1969, a plaque to Leigh was placed in the Actors Church, St Paul's, Covent Garden ; in 1985, a portrait of her was included in a series of postage stamps, along with Alfred Hitchcock, Charles Chaplin, Peter Sellers and David Niven to commemorate " British Film Year ".

* February 28 – Alfred Burke, British actor d. 2011