Every day find here my selection of Great British men and women born on this day.
- Birth date
- 1730 : Elizabeth Caslon (née Cartlich) (1730–1795) Wife of William Caslon junior; type founder
- 1744 : Richard Lovell Edgeworth (1744–1817) Writer and inventor
- 1767 : Edward Pease (1767–1858) Woollen manufacturer and railway promoter
- 1860 : Walter Richard Sickert (1860–1942) Painter
- 1863 : Sir Francis Edward Younghusband (1863–1942) Soldier, explorer and mystic
- 1867 : Sir Walter Westley Russell (1867–1949) Painter and art teacher
- 1872 : William Heath Robinson (1872–1944) Cartoonist and book illustrator
- 1872 : Alexandra Mary Chalmers Watson (1872–1936) Medical practitioner and head of the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps
- 1875 : May Billinghurst (1875–1953) Suffragette
- 1922 : Denholm Mitchell Elliott (1922–1992) Actor