Guy Burgess

Guy Francis de Moncy Burgess was a British diplomat and Soviet double agent, and a member of the Cambridge Five spy ring that operated from the mid-1930s to the early years of the Cold War era. His defection in 1951 to the Soviet Union, with his fellow spy Donald Maclean, led to a serious breach in Anglo-United States intelligence co-operation, and caused long-lasting disruption and demoralisation in Britain's foreign and diplomatic services.

16 April 1911

Born on the same birth day (16 April): Charles Montagu, 1st Earl of Halifax • Epke Zonderland • George Steele • Joan Bakewell • Kyle Okposo • Lars Börgeling • Petro Tyschtschenko • Teddy Cobeña • Vera Krepkina • Walt Williams

Born in the same month (April 1911): Augusta Braxton Baker • Bruno Beger • Connie Marrero • Hervé Bazin • Ico Hitrec • Jean-Louis Lévesque • Kemal Satır • Mahmoud Younis • Martin Denny • Maurice Schumann • Nino Sanzogno • Paul Verner