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British playwright Howard Barker has argued strenuously for the rebirth of tragedy in the contemporary theatre, most notably in his volume Arguments for a Theatre.
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A secret British society called the " Order of Chaeronea " campaigned for the legalisation of homosexuality, and counted playwright Oscar Wilde among its members in the last decades of the 19th century.
British playwright Tom Stoppard wrote Every Good Boy Deserves Favour about the relationship between a patient and his doctor in one of these hospitals.
* 1896 – Arnold Ridley, British playwright and actor ( d. 1984 )
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* Sweeney Todd, The Demon Barber of Fleet Street ( 1973 ), a play by the British playwright Christopher Bond.
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* May 14 – Denis Cannan, British dramatist, playwright and scriptwriter
* January 9 – Bill Naughton, British playwright ( b. 1910 )
* September 6 – Guy Bolton, British playwright ( b. 1884 )
* November 18 – W. S. Gilbert, British playwright and librettist best known for his collaborations with Arthur Sullivan ( d. 1911 )
* " Chicken Soup with Barley " is a 1956 play by British playwright Arnold Wesker.
* Peter Coke ( 1913 – 2008 ), a British actor, playwright and artist
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* Chloe Moss ( 1976 -), British playwright
Alan Bennett ( born 9 May 1934 ) is a British playwright, screenwriter, actor and author.
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Fanon appears as a character in British playwright Caryl Churchill's The Hospital at the Time of the Revolution.
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Educating Rita is a stage comedy by British playwright Willy Russell.
* William Douglas-Home ( 1912 – 1992 ), British playwright
George Linnaeus Banks ( 2 March 1821 – 3 May 1881 ), husband of author Isabella Banks, was a British journalist, editor, poet, playwright, amateur actor, orator, and Methodist.
Roderick " Rory " Keith Ogilvy Bremner, FKC ( born 6 April 1961 ) is a Scottish impressionist, playwright and comedian, noted for his work in political satire and impressions of prominent British politicians.
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Milne was an early screenwriter for the nascent British film industry, writing four stories filmed in 1920 for the company Minerva Films ( founded in 1920 by the actor Leslie Howard and his friend and story editor Adrian Brunel ).
Fleming finally abandoned penicillin, and not long after he did, Howard Florey and Ernst Boris Chain at the Radcliffe Infirmary in Oxford took up researching and mass-producing it, with funds from the U. S. and British governments.
In the British general election the following year, Michael Howard promised to work towards having the prohibition removed if the Conservative Party gained a majority of seats in the House of Commons, but the election was won by Blair's Labour Party.
* 1907 – Mary Howard aka Josephine Edgar, British writer ( d. 1991 )
Thus, the 11th edition is " dedicated by Permission to His Majesty George the Fifth, King of Great Britain and Ireland and of the British Dominions beyond the Seas, Emperor of India, and to William Howard Taft, President of the United States of America.
* 1955 – Howard Jones, British pop singer
* 1922 – Joyce Howard, British film actress ( d. 2010 )
* 1981 – Jay Howard, British racing driver
* Howard Colvin, A Biographical Dictionary of British Architects, 3rd ed.
* Jim Hillier, Howard Hawks: American Artist, Peter Wollen ( British Film Institute, 1997 )
* Robin Wood, Howard Hawks, British Film Institute, 1981, revised with addition of chapter " Retrospect ".
They had their second child, Leslie Howard Bogart on August 23, 1952, a girl named after British actor Leslie Howard.
* 1943 – British Overseas Airways Corporation Flight 777 is shot down over the Bay of Biscay by German Junkers Ju 88s, killing actor Leslie Howard and leading to speculation the downing was an attempt to kill British Prime Minister Winston Churchill.
It took nearly 10 years before a general acceptance of the origin of meteorites was achieved through the work of the French scientist Jean-Baptiste Biot and the British chemist, Edward Howard.
* 1772 – Luke Howard, British meteorologist ( d. 1864 )
* 1922 – In Egypt, British archaeologist Howard Carter and his men find the entrance to Pharaoh Tutankhamun's tomb in the Valley of the Kings.
* Howard, Michael British Intelligence in the Second World War, Volume 5, Strategic Deception London: H. M. Stationery Office, 1990.
** British Home Secretary Michael Howard informs Moors Murderer Myra Hindley that she will never be released from prison.
* March 2 – Howard Carter, British archaeologist ( b. 1874 )
* June 1 – British Overseas Airways Corporation Flight 777, a DC-3 with registration G-AGBB, ( formerly KLM PH-ALI, Ibis ), on a scheduled passenger flight, is shot down over the Bay of Biscay by German Junkers Ju 88s, all 17 persons aboard perish, including the actor Leslie Howard.
* June 1 – Leslie Howard, British actor ( b. 1893 )
* April 28 – Howard Donald, British singer ( Take That )
* January 7 – Trevor Howard, British actor ( b. 1913 )
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