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): Brendon Leonard • Christijan Albers • David Graf • George Bingham, 3rd Earl of Lucan • Gina Carano • Jimmy Osmond • John Harvey-Jones • Madanjeet Singh • Margot Adler • Michalis Dorizas • Ove Arup • Pedro Ramírez Vázquez • Polly Adler • Prince Georg of Denmark

Born in the same month (April 1911): Augusta Braxton Baker • Chris Berger • Connie Marrero • Hervé Bazin • Ivan Combe • Jean-Louis Lévesque • Johnny Revolta • Lester Rodney • Mahmoud Younis • Maurice Goldhaber • Maurice Schumann • Michael Woodruff • Nino Sanzogno • Ronald Neame