The following is a list of Royal Navy ship names by name in alphabetical order, both past and present. Many of the names have been re-used over the years and thus represent different ships.
(Note that this list still lacks many important ships.)
... (+ 1983)
April 22 - Robert Oppenheimer, physicist (+ 1967)
May 6 - Harry Martinson, swedish author, winner of the Nobel Prize in literature
May 11 - Salvador Dalí, ...