* 1934 – Jerry Lordan, English singer-songwriter and composer ( d. 1995 )

* 1886 – Rebecca Clarke, English composer and violist ( d. 1979 )

* 1886 – Eric Coates, English composer and viola player ( d. 1957 )

* 1946 – Allan Holdsworth, English guitarist and composer ( UK, The Tony Williams Lifetime, HoBoLeMa, and Tempest )

* 1875 – Albert Ketèlbey, English conductor, composer, and pianist ( d. 1959 )

* 1879 – John Ireland, English composer ( d. 1962 )

* 1891 – Arthur Bliss, English composer and conductor ( d. 1975 )

* 1930 – Lionel Bart, English composer ( d. 1999 )

* 1571 – Thomas Lupo, English composer and viol player ( d. 1627 )

* 1889 – Charlie Chaplin, English actor, director, and composer ( d. 1977 )

The first known instance of Newton's lines joined to music was in A Companion to the Countess of Huntingdon's Hymns ( London, 1808 ), where it is set to the tune " Hephzibah " by English composer John Jenkins Husband.

* 1888 – An audio recording of English composer Arthur Sullivan's " The Lost Chord ", one of the first recordings of music ever made, is played during a press conference introducing Thomas Edison's phonograph in London, England.

* 1892 – Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji, English composer and pianist ( d. 1988 )

* 1875 – Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, English composer ( d. 1912 )

* 1696 – Maurice Greene, English composer ( d. 1755 )

* 1949 – Mark Knopfler, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer, and composer ( Dire Straits and The Notting Hillbillies )

* 1961 – Roy Hay, English musician and composer ( Culture Club )

* 1905 – Constant Lambert, English composer and conductor ( d. 1951 )

* 1947 – Willy Russell, English playwright an composer

* 1945 – Chris Copping, English singer-songwriter, musician, and composer

* 1927 – Raymond Leppard, English conductor and composer

* 2012 – Bert Weedon, English guitarist and composer ( b. 1920 )

* 1715 – James Nares, English composer of mostly sacred vocal works ( d. 1783 )

* 1935 – Dudley Moore, English actor, comedian and composer ( d. 2002 )

* 1740 – Samuel Arnold, English composer and organist ( d. 1802 )

In Canto XI of the same book a hermit named Māṇḍakarṇi is mentioned: " For he, great votarist, intent -- On strictest rule his stern life spent -- ... -- Ten thousand years on air he fed ..." ( English quotations are from Ralph T. H. Griffith's translation ).

Other utilitarian-type views include the claims that the end of action is survival and growth, as in evolutionary ethics ( the 19th-century English philosopher Herbert Spencer ); the experience of power, as in despotism ( the 16th-century Italian political philosopher Niccolò Machiavelli and the 19th-century German Friedrich Nietzsche ); satisfaction and adjustment, as in pragmatism ( 20th-century American philosophers Ralph Barton Perry and John Dewey ); and freedom, as in existentialism ( the 20th-century French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre ).

* 1581 – Ralph Sherwin, English Catholic saint ( b. 1550 )

* 1962 – Ralph Fiennes, English actor

* 1960 – Ralph Brown, English actor

La Vérité de la Religion Chrétienne Réformée ( 1717 ) was a controversial treatise which in its four parts attacks the characteristic doctrines of the Roman Catholic Church ; it was translated into English, for the use of the Roman Catholics of his diocese of Dromore, by Dr. Ralph Lambert, afterwards bishop of Meath.

In the 20th century, English opera began to assert more independence, with works of Ralph Vaughan Williams and in particular Benjamin Britten, who in a series of works that remain in standard repertory today, revealed an excellent flair for the dramatic and superb musicality.

Ralph Cudworth ( 1617 – 26 June 1688 ) was an English philosopher, the leader of the Cambridge Platonists.

* 1301 – Ralph de Stafford, 1st Earl of Stafford, English soldier ( d. 1372 )

* Flos Campi by the English composer Ralph Vaughan Williams is based on the book.

Two of the earliest English comedies, Ralph Roister Doister and Gammer Gurton's Needle are thought to parody Terence's plays.

In the early 14th century, a geography encyclopedia called Geographica Universalis was compiled at Malmesbury Abbey in England, which was in turn used as a source for one of the most widely-circulated medieval English educational works, Polychronicon by Ralph Higden, a few years later.

Ralph Vaughan Williams set to music two of Barnes ' poems, " In the Spring ", and ' My Orcha'd in Lindèn Lea ', in the " Common English " version (" Linden Lea ").

** Ralph Bates, English actor ( d. 1991 )

* December 22 – Ralph Fiennes, English actor

* June 29 – Ralph Allen, English businessman and politician ( b. 1693 )

* June 26 – Ralph Cudworth, English philosopher ( b. 1617 )

* April 17 – Sir Ralph Abercromby unsuccessfully invades San Juan, Puerto Rico in what will be one of the largest British attacks on Spanish territories in the western hemisphere, and one of the worst defeats of the English navy for years to come.

** Ralph Allen, English footballer ( b. 1906 )

* October – Ralph Lane, English explorer ( b. 1530 )

* October 27 – Ralph Winwood, English politician ( b. c. 1563 )

** Ralph Sherwin, English Roman Catholic martyr and saint ( d. 1581 )

* January 23 – Ralph Josselin, English clergyman ( d. 1683 )

* November 26 – Ralph Agas, English surveyor ( b. c. 1540 )

* March 30 – Ralph Sadler, English statesman ( b. 1507 )