David Bowie

David Bowie

male, 62 years old
Songwriter, British, Rock musician, singer, musician, English…declinedaBritishhonour
David Bowie (born David Robert Jones on 8 January 1947) is an English singer, songwriter, actor, multi-instrumentalist, producer, arranger and...
John Lennon

John Lennon

male, deceased (1980)
The Beatles, English, singer, Songwriter, Murdered entertainer, From Liverpool…Give Peace a Chance, A Hard Day's Night, Order of the British Empire, Member of the Order of the British Empire, British
John Winston Ono Lennon, MBE (9 October 1940 - 8 December 1980), was an Academy Award and Grammy Award-winning English songwriter, singer,...
Harold Pinter

Harold Pinter

male, 79 years old
BAFTA winner, cancer survivor, Playwright, From hackney, Order of the British Empire, Alumni of the Central School of Speech and Drama…Member of the Order of the Companions of Honour, declinedaBritishhonour, Commander of the Order of the British Empire, Companion of Honour, British
Harold Pinter, CH, CBE (born 10 October 1930) is an English playwright, screenwriter, poet, actor, director, author, and political activist, best...
C. S. Lewis

C. S. Lewis

male, deceased (1963)
Christian, The Chronicles of Narnia, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, philosopher, Old Malvernian, Narnia…Screwtape Porposes a Toast
Clive Staples Lewis, commonly referred to as C. S. Lewis, was an Irish author and scholar. Lewis is known for his work on medieval literature,...
Benjamin Zephaniah

Benjamin Zephaniah

male, 51 years old
Rastafarian, From Birmingham, England, Jamaican-English, poet, Order of the British Empire, dub poet…Officer of the Order of British Empire, British, declinedaBritishhonour
Benjamin Obadiah Iqbal Zephaniah (born 15 April 1958, Cole's Hill, Birmingham, England) is a British Rastafarian writer and dub poet, and is well...
David Hockney

David Hockney

male, 72 years old
painter, Alumni of the Royal College of Art, English, Old Bradfordian, Artist author, From Bradford…Member of the Order of the Companions of Honour, Order of the Companions of Honour, declinedaBritishhonour
David Hockney, CH, RA, (born July 9, 1937) is an English artist, based in Los Angeles, California, United States. An important contributor to the...
John Cleese

John Cleese

male, 70 years old (Ithaca, New York, United States)
The Ministry of Silly Walks, 1.95m tall, Monty Python comedy group, ex-wife Connie Booth, BBC radio series, Weston-super-mare…A Fish Called Wanda (1988), A Fish Called Wanda, British, declinedaBritishhonour
John Marwood Cleese (born 27 October 1939) is an Academy Award-nominated and Emmy Award winning English comedian and actor. He is best known for...
Winston Churchill

Winston Churchill

male, deceased (1965) (United Kingdom)
World War II political leader, Time Magazine Person of the Year, orator, anti-communist, British, Légion d'honneur recipient…British Army, British military personnel of the Boer War, British Military, Order of the Companions of Honour, British Indian Army officer
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill, KG, OM, CH, TD, FRS, PC (Can) (30 November 1874 - 24 January 1965) was a British politician who served as...
Aldous Huxley

Aldous Huxley

male, deceased (1963) (Kamuela, Hawaii, United States)
Humanist, Throat cancer death, poet, American, parapsychology, philosophical…declinedaBritishhonour, British
Aldous Leonard Huxley (July 26, 1894 - November 22, 1963) was an English writer and one of the most prominent members of the famous Huxley family....
Rudyard Kipling

Rudyard Kipling

male, deceased (1936)
science fiction writer, British imperialism, British Empire, buried at Westminster Abbey, Writer-illustrator, mandalay…British, declinedaBritishhonour, British children's literature, British honours system
Joseph Rudyard Kipling was an English author and poet, born in India, and best known today for his children's books, including "The Jungle Book"...