Order of Merit | Awards & Honors

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Tom Stoppard

07/03/1937 – 11/29/2025

88 years

Czech–English playwright

Dorset

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Michael Atiyah

04/22/1929 – 01/11/2019

89 years

British mathematician

Edinburgh

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Owen Chadwick

05/20/1916 – 07/17/2015

99 years

Cambridge

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Margaret Thatcher

10/13/1925 – 04/08/2013

87 years

British stateswoman and prime minister

The Ritz London

114

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Andrew Huxley

11/22/1917 – 05/30/2012

94 years

English physiologist and biophysicist

Cambridge

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Lucian Freud

12/08/1922 – 07/20/2011

88 years

British painter and engraver

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Francis Crick

06/08/1916 – 07/28/2004

88 years

British molecular biologist, biophysicist, neuroscientist; co-discoverer of the structure of DNA

La Jolla

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Roy Jenkins

11/11/1920 – 01/05/2003

82 years

British politician

East Hendred

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Ninette de Valois

06/06/1898 – 03/08/2001

102 years

British dancer, teacher, choreographer and director of classical ballet

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John Gielgud

04/14/1904 – 05/21/2000

96 years

British actor and theatre director

Wotton House

115

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Ted Hughes

08/17/1930 – 10/28/1998

68 years

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Frank Whittle

06/01/1907 – 08/09/1996

89 years

Columbia

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Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin

05/12/1910 – 07/29/1994

84 years

Ilmington

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William Penney

06/24/1909 – 03/03/1991

81 years

East Hendred

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Kenneth Clark

07/13/1903 – 05/21/1983

79 years

Hythe

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William Walton

03/29/1902 – 03/08/1983

80 years

Ischia

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Ben Nicholson

04/10/1894 – 02/06/1982

87 years

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Graham Sutherland

08/24/1903 – 02/17/1980

76 years

Streatham

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Louis Mountbatten, 1. Earl Mountbatten of Burma

06/25/1900 – 08/27/1979

79 years

Mullaghmore

1785

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Benjamin Britten

11/22/1913 – 12/04/1976

63 years

Aldeburgh

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Basil Spence

08/13/1907 – 11/19/1976

69 years

Yaxley

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Wilder Penfield

01/26/1891 – 04/05/1976

85 years

Montréal-Nord

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Robert Robinson

09/13/1886 – 02/08/1975

88 years

Great Missenden