| Month |
Day |
Event
|
| August |
20 |
First transmissions of Baird's 30-line television system by the BBC in London.[1]
|
| November |
|
The BBC and John Logie Baird begin daily experimental broadcasting of 30-line television transmissions using the BBC's 2LO transmitter.[2][3]
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- 17 February – Patricia Routledge, actress
- 21 February – James Beck, actor (died 1973)
- 24 March – Francis Essex, television producer (died 2009)
- 5 April – Nigel Hawthorne, actor (died 2001)
- 14 April – Gerry Anderson, puppeteer, television producer and director (died 2012)
- 18 April – Peter Jeffrey, actor (died 1999)
- 25 May – Arthur Montford, Scottish sports journalist (died 2014)
- 26 May – Lloyd Reckord, Jamaican-born actor (died 2015)
- 9 July – Christopher Morahan, director and production executive (died 2017)
- 19 July – Denis Goodwin, comedy scriptwriter (suicide 1975)
- 30 August – Ian McNaught-Davis, television presenter (died 2014)[4]
- 14 September – Michael Peacock, television executive (died 2019)
- 25 September – Ronnie Barker, comic actor (died 2005)
- 27 November – Alan Simpson, comedy scriptwriter (died 2017)
- 16 December – Nicholas Courtney, actor (Doctor Who) (died 2011)
- 25 December – Stuart Hall, journalist and television presenter
- 26 December – Irene Shubik, television drama producer (died 2019)
- 31 December – David Nixon, magician and television personality (died 1978)
