* 1940 – Mike Vickers, British musician and composer ( Manfred Mann )

* 1955 – Pete Shelley, British musician ( Buzzcocks )

Alexis Korner ( 19 April 1928 — 1 January 1984 ) was a blues musician and radio broadcaster, who has sometimes been referred to as " a Founding Father of British Blues ".

* Urban Blitz ( born 1951 ), British rock musician

Christopher Haden-Guest, 5th Baron Haden-Guest ( born February 5, 1948 ), better known as Christopher Guest, is a British and American screenwriter, composer, musician, director, actor, and comedian.

* 1941 – Michael Pinder, British musician ( Moody Blues )

* 1944 – Mick Jones, British musician ( Foreigner )

* 1952 – David Knopfler, British musician ( Dire Straits )

* 1960 – Mark Brydon, British musician ( Moloko )

* 2010 – Woolly Wolstenholme, British musician ( b. 1947 )

* 1950 – Andy Powell, British musician ( Wishbone Ash )

* 1944 – Nicky Hopkins, British musician ( d. 1994 )

* 1945 – Paul Newton, British musician ( Uriah Heep )

* 1952 – Jean Jacques Burnel, British musician ( The Stranglers )

* 1818 – Henry Litolff, British musician and composer ( d. 1891 )

* 1974 – Danny Goffey, British musician ( Supergrass )

* 1960 – Jaz Coleman, British musician ( Killing Joke )

* 1951 – Steve Harley, British musician ( Cockney Rebel )

* 1940 – Alan Caddy, British musician ( The Tornados ), arranger and record producer ( d. 2000 )

* 1968 – Simon Wickham-Smith, British musician

* 1983 – Will South, British musician ( Thirteen Senses )

* 1983 – Alex Westaway, British musician ( Fightstar )

* 1940 – Brian Bennett, British musician ( The Shadows )

* 1964 – Paul Hanley, British musician ( The Fall and Tom Hingley and the Lovers )

* 1970 – Andy Williams, British musician ( Doves and Sub Sub )

* 1958 – Nick Park, British filmmaker and animator

Furthermore, the leader of the German Free Democratic Party ( FDP ), Philipp Rösler, serves as Vice-Chancellor of Germany and the leader of the British Liberal Democrats, Nick Clegg, serves as Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

Despite the disdain of the British media, Brooks's overall popularity in the country was evident, with a top disc jockey, Nick Barraclough, referring to Brooks as Garth Vader ( a play on Darth Vader ) for his " invasion " of the charts and his success in the country genre.

* 1967 – Nick Gillingham, British swimmer

* 1967 – Nick Clegg, British Liberal Democrat Leader

* 1959 – Nick Griffin, British politician

* 1949 – Nick Lowe, British musician ( Rockpile and Little Village )

The success of Miyazaki's films has invited comparisons with American animator Walt Disney, British animator Nick Park and Robert Zemeckis.

* 1962 – Nick Hancock, British television presenter

The psychedelic-influenced and whimsical strand of British folk continued into the 1970s with acts including Comus, Mellow Candle, Nick Drake, The Incredible String Band, Forest and Trees and with Syd Barrett's two solo albums.

Some notable British talk radio presenters include Tommy Boyd, James Whale, Steve Allen, Jon Gaunt, Nick Abbot, James Stannage, George Galloway, Ian Collins, Brian Hayes, Scottie McClue, Nicky Campbell and Simon Mayo.

In 2003, Nick Greiner, a former premier of New South Wales, resigned from his position as chair of the University's Graduate School of Management because of academic protests against his simultaneous chairmanship of British American Tobacco ( Australia ).

Wallace and Gromit are the main characters in a British series consisting of four animated short films and a feature-length film by Nick Park of Aardman Animations.

** Nick Ainger, British politician

* July 18 – Nick Faldo, British golfer

** Nick Drake, British musician ( b. 1948 )

* March 1 – Nick Griffin, British politician

** Nick Rhodes, British scientist

** Nick Hancock, British actor and television presenter

It is also a politically active college, but rather with politically active members and alumni occupying different parts of the British political spectrum, from the militant left to the extreme right ( Nick Griffin, the leader of BNP, went to Downing ).

* Nick Cook ( Nicholas Julian Cook, b. September 2, 1959 ) is a British aviation journalist and author of fiction and non-fiction works and has won four Aerospace Journalist of the Year Awards from the Royal Aeronautical Society.

* The Motors, a British pub rock / punk band, formed in 1977 by Nick Garvey, Andy McMaster, Ricky Slaughter and Rob Hendry, who was replaced by Bram Tchaikovsky the same year

He made his final appearances on stage as Nick Bottom in A Midsummer Night's Dream, and as King Lear at the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre in 1959, although failing health resulted in both performances being disappointing, according to some British critics.

The ten remaining confused passengers are Brian Engle, a troubled, off-duty airline pilot traveling to Boston to attend his ex-wife's funeral ; Dinah Bellman, a young blind girl with minor psychic powers ; fifth-grade teacher Laurel Stevenson, who takes to watching over Dinah ; Nick Hopewell, a junior attache & " mechanic " for the British Embassy ; Don Gaffney, a retired tool-and-die engineer on a trip to see his grandchild ; Rudy Warwick, a businessman ; Albert Kaussner, a talented teen violinist heading to a prestigious school of the arts ; Bethany Simms, a teenager being sent by her family to rehab ; Bob Jenkins, a mystery author who acts as the voice of logic ; and Craig Toomey, an irritable investment banker on the verge of a psychotic breakdown.

About a Boy is a 1998 novel by British writer Nick Hornby.