1998 in the United Kingdom

Births

• 2 January
• George Miller, footballer
• Ollie Pope, cricketer
• 4 January – Tia Rigg, murder victim (died 2010)
• 7 January – Ben Earl, rugby union player
• 15 January – Chloe Kelly, footballer
• 18 January – Alfie McIlwain, actor
• 2 February – Chris Smith, footballer
• 3 February – Zak Crawley, cricketer
• 4 February – Scott Jones, athlete
• 15 February – George Russell, racing driver
• 21 February – Ella-Rae Smith, actress and model
• 27 February
• Sam Smith, footballer
• Theo Stevenson, actor
• 13 March – Oliver Stokes, actor
• 14 March – George Bartlett, cricketer
• 24 March – Isabel Suckling, singer
• 11 April – Oliver Dillon, actor
• 12 April – Tom Pearce, footballer
• 14 April – Arthur Bowen, actor
• 22 April – Jay Dasilva, footballer
• 8 May – Sam Field, footballer
• 14 May – Aaron Ramsdale, footballer
• 3 June – Sam Curran, cricketer.
• 4 June
• Jack Blatherwick, cricketer
• Central Cee, rapper
• 7 June – Graham Newberry, American-English figure skater
• 10 June – Johnny Bennett, actor
• 14 June – Julia Joyce, actress
• 21 June – Isabel Atkin, freestyle skier
• 30 June – Tom Davies, footballer
• 1 July – Hollie Steel, classical crossover singer
• 5 July - Georgie Aldous, british social activist, model and influencer
• 19 July
• Ronaldo Vieira, footballer
• Amar Virdi, cricketer
• Lil Woods, actress
• 20 July – Sinead Michael, actress
• 28 July – Sam Surridge, footballer
• 2 August – Giarnni Regini-Moran, artistic gymnast
• 6 August – Jack Scanlon, actor
• 8 August – Ronan Parke, pop singer
• 14 August – Amy Marren, swimmer
• 29 August- Sianna Trebicki, Icon/Legend
• 5 September – Helena Barlow, actress
• 9 September – Shannon Matthews, kidnapping victim
• 21 September – Prem Sisodiya, cricketer
• 2 October – Zack Morris, actor
• 7 October – Trent Alexander-Arnold, footballer
• 17 October – Erin Kellyman, actress
• 18 October – Jack Carroll, comic actor
• 20 October – Jordan Allan, footballer
• 22 October
• Georgina Anderson, pop singer (died 2013)
• Harry Souttar, footballer
• 29 October – Matthew Potts, cricketer
• 11 November – Tom Banton, cricketer
• 21 November – Will Jacks, cricketer
• 28 November – Ronan McKenzie, kart racing driver
• 1 December – Ollie Robinson, cricketer
• 3 December – Marcus Edwards, footballer
• 11 December – Gabz (Gabrielle Gardiner), singer-songwriter
• 14 December – Lukas Nmecha, footballer
• 17 December – Jasmine Armfield, actress
• 24 December – Declan McKenna, pop singer

Deaths

January

• 2 January – Frank Muir, actor, comedy writer and raconteur (born 1920)
• 4 January – Sally Purcell, poet and translator (born 1944)
• 5 January – David Bairstow, English cricketer (born 1951); suicide
• 6 January – Richard Clutterbuck, Army major-general and historian (born 1917)
• 7 January – Frank Roberts, diplomat (born 1907)
• 8 January – Sir Michael Tippett, composer (born 1905)
• 11 January – John Wells, writer and satirist (born 1936)
• 12 January
• Roger Clark, rally driver (born 1939)
• Ian Moores, former footballer (born 1954)
• 15 January
• James Ashley, suspected heroin dealer (born 1958); murdered
• George Pottinger, convicted fraudster (born 1916)
• 18 January – Monica Edwards, children's writer (born 1912)
• 21 January – Edward Carrick, art designer, writer and illustrator (born 1905)
• 23 January – Victor Pasmore, artist (born 1908)
• 24 January – Xenia Field, councillor, horticulturalist and author (born 1894)
• 25 January – Attia Hosain, novelist, journalist and actress (born 1913, India)
• 26 January – Lord Nicholas Hervey, aristocrat and political activist (born 1961); suicide
• 27 January – Geoffrey Trease, writer (born 1909)
• 30 January – Lesslie Newbigin, theologian and missionary (born 1909)

February

• 2 February – Robert McIntyre, Scottish politician (born 1913)
• 3 February – Davy Kaye, actor (born 1916)
• 5 February – Nick Webb, musician (born 1954)
• 8 February – Enoch Powell, politician (born 1912)
• 10 February – Peter Longbottom, cyclist (born 1959); road accident
• 14 February – Edgar Granville, Baron Granville of Eye, politician (born 1898)
• 15 February
• Samuel Curran, physicist (born 1912)
• Martha Gellhorn, war correspondent, suicide (born 1908 in the United States)
• 16 February – Harry Hinsley, historian and cryptanalyst (born 1918)
• 17 February – Sheila Raynor, actress (born 1906)
• 18 February – Robbie James, Welsh footballer (born 1957)
• 20 February
• Francis Coulson, cook and hotelier (born 1919)
• Henry Livings, playwright and screenwriter (born 1929)
• David McClure, artist (born 1926)
• 24 February – Geoffrey Bush, composer and music scholar (born 1920)
• 27 February – Martin Hollis, philosopher (born 1938)

March

• 3 March – Hedley Mattingly, actor (born 1915)
• 6 March – Benjamin Bowden, designer (born 1906)
• 7 March – Bernarr Rainbow, historian of music education, organist, and choir master (born 1941)
• 8 March – Jack Donaldson, Baron Donaldson of Kingsbridge, politician and public servant (born 1907)
• 9 March – Colin Patterson, biologist (born 1933)
• 10 March
• Ian Dunn, gay and paedophile rights activist, founder of the Scottish Minorities Group (born 1943)
• Alberto Morrocco, artist (born 1917)
• 13 March – Judge Dread, reggae musician (born 1945)
• 16 March
• Sir Derek Barton, chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1918)
• Noel Stephen Paynter, Royal Air Force commodore (born 1898)
• 20 March
• Beverley Cross, playwright, librettist and screenwriter (born 1931)
• Laddie Lucas, RAF officer and politician (born 1915)
• 25 March – Daniel Massey, actor (born 1933)
• 27 March – Joan Lestor, Baroness Lestor of Eccles, politician (born 1931)
• 29 March – David Hicks, interior designer (born 1929)

April

• 1 April – Mary Wynne Warner, mathematician (born 1902)
• 2 April – Joan Austin, tennis player (born 1903)
• 3 April – Dame Mary Cartwright, mathematician (born 1900)
• 4 April – Ian Percival, politician (born 1921)
• 5 April
• Sir Charles Frank, physicist (born 1911, South Africa)
• Cozy Powell, rock musician (born 1947); car accident
• 7 April
• Ronald William John Keay, botanist (born 1920)
• James McIntosh Patrick, painter (born 1907)
• 11 April
• Francis Durbridge, playwright and author (born 1912)
• Tex Geddes, author and adventurer (born 1919)
• 14 April
• Harry Lee, tennis player (born 1907)
• Dorothy Squires, Welsh singer (born 1915)
• 16 April
• Fred Davis, snooker and billiards player (born 1913)
• Ronald Millar, actor and scriptwriter (born 1919)
• 17 April – Linda McCartney, American-born, British-based photographer and musician (born 1941)
• 19 April – Denis Howell, Baron Howell, politician (born 1923)
• 20 April
• Joan Mary Wayne Brown, British author (b. 1906)
• Trevor Huddleston, Anglican bishop and anti-apartheid activist (born 1913)
• 21 April – Frank Wootton, aviation artist (born 1911)
• 27 April – Ralph Raphael, organic chemist (born 1921)

May

• 1 May – J. S. Roskell, historian (born 1913)
• 2 May
• Justin Fashanu, footballer (born 1961); suicide
• Kevin Lloyd, actor (born 1949)
• 3 May – Erika Cheetham, writer (born 1939)
• 4 May – Gordon Beningfield, wildlife artist and naturalist (born 1936)
• 7 May – Jack Heslop-Harrison, soldier and botanist (born 1920)
• 8 May – D. S. L. Cardwell, science historian (born 1919)
• 9 May
• Bob Mellish, Baron Mellish, politician (born 1913)
• R. J. G. Savage, palaeontologist (born 1927)
• 14 May
• Mabel Esther Allan, children's author (born 1915)
• Geoffrey Kendal, actor (born 1909)
• 15 May – Patrick Wall, World War II marine commando and politician (born 1916)
• 17 May – Hugh Cudlipp, journalist (Daily Mirror) (born 1913)
• 18 May – Enid Marx, artist and designer (born 1902)
• 19 May – Edwin Astley, composer (born 1922)
• 20 May – Wolf Mankowitz, playwright and screenwriter (born 1924)
• 24 May – Charles Rycroft, psychoanalyst (born 1914)
• 28 May – Lana Morris, actress (born 1930)
• 29 May – Marion Milner, psychoanalyst (born 1900)
• 30 May – Walter Carr, actor (born 1925)

June

• 5 June – Viola Keats, actress (born 1911)
• 10 June
• Sir David English, journalist and newspaper editor (born 1931)
• Hammond Innes, author (born 1914)
• 11 June – Catherine Cookson, author (born 1906)
• 13 June
• Alfred Horace Gerrard, sculptor (born 1899)
• Kadamba Simmons, actress and model (born 1974); murdered
• Reg Smythe, cartoonist (Andy Capp) (born 1917)
• 15 June – Morris Kestelman, artist (born 1905)
• 19 June – John Camkin, journalist and sports commentator (born 1922)
• 20 June – Bruno Barnabe, actor (born 1905)
• 21 June – Harry Cranbrook Allen, historian of the United States (born 1917)
• 22 June – Benny Green, writer, radio broadcaster and saxophonist (born 1927)
• 26 June – Derek Rayner, Baron Rayner, businessman, chief executive of Marks & Spencer (1984–1991) (born 1926)
• 28 June – Jack Rowley, English footballer (Manchester United) (born 1918)

July

• 1 July – Martin Seymour-Smith, poet, literary critic and biographer (born 1928)
• 2 July – Tony De Vit, DJ and music producer (born 1957)
• 3 July – George Lloyd, composer (born 1913)
• 4 July – Gladys Ambrose, actress (born 1930)
• 5 July
• Johnny Speight, television scriptwriter (born 1920)
• Stevie Hyper D, drum and bass MC (born 1966)
• 8 July – Constance Cox, scriptwriter and playwright (born 1912)
• 9 July
• David Fulker, geneticist (born 1937)
• Katherine Russell, social worker and university teacher (born 1909)
• 11 July – John Boyd-Carpenter, Baron Boyd-Carpenter, politician (born 1908)
• 14 July
• Beryl Bryden, jazz singer (born 1920)
• Angus John Mackintosh Stewart, writer (born 1936)
• 17 July – James Lighthill, mathematician (born 1924)
• 18 July – Betty Marsden, comedy actress (born 1919)
• 21 July – Kenneth Watson, actor (born 1931)
• 22 July – Michael Denison, actor (born 1915)
• 23 July – John Hopkins, screenwriter (born 1931); accidentally killed in the United States
• 25 July – Tiny Rowland, businessman (born 1917)
• 27 July – Binnie Barnes, actress (born 1903)
• 28 July – Lenny McLean, boxer and actor (born 1949)

August

• 1 August – Eva Bartok, actress (born 1927, Hungary)
• 3 August – Alan Walsh, physicist, developer of atomic absorption spectroscopy (born 1913)
• 4 August – Richard Dunn, CEO of Thames Television (born 1943)
• 6 August – Nat Gonella, jazz trumpeter, bandleader and vocalist (born 1908)
• 7 August – Sir Harry Tuzo, Army general (born 1917)
• 9 August – George Child Villiers, 9th Earl of Jersey, peer (born 1910)
• 11 August – Derek Newark, actor (born 1933)
• 14 August – Rosemary Martin, actress (born 1936)
• 19 August – Anne Asquith, Countess of Oxford and Asquith, code breaker in World War II (born 1916, France)
• 22 August
• Evelyn Denington, Baroness Denington, politician (born 1907)
• Jimmy Skidmore, jazz saxophonist (born 1916)
• 25 August
• Allan Macartney, Scottish politician (born 1941)
• Barbara Mandell, journalist, broadcaster, newsreader and travel writer (born 1920)
• 26 August – Margaret Potter, writer (born 1926)

September

• 1 September – Vere Harmsworth, 3rd Viscount Rothermere, peer and newspaper proprietor (born 1925)
• 2 September
• Roy Bradford, politician (born 1921)
• Jackie Blanchflower, footballer (born 1933)
• 4 September
• Charles Kemball, chemist (born 1923)
• Lal Waterson, folk singer-songwriter (born 1943)
• 7 September – Sir John Osler Chattock Hayes, Royal Navy admiral (born 1913)
• 10 September
• Carl Forgione, actor (born 1944)
• Sir Frederick Rosier, Royal Air Force commander (born 1915)
• 13 September – Sir Denys Buckley, lawyer and judge (born 1906)
• 17 September
• April FitzLyon, translator, biographer and historian (born 1920)
• Celia Rooke, artist (born 1902)
• 19 September
• Susan Barrantes, filmmaker and mother of the former Duchess of York (born 1937); killed in car accident
• Patricia Hayes, character actress (born 1909)
• Ran Laurie, physician and Olympic rowing champion, father of Hugh Laurie (born 1915)
• 21 September – Margaret Allan, racing driver (born 1909)
• 22 September – Doug Smith, rugby union player (born 1924)
• 23 September – Ray Bowden, footballer (born 1909)
• 28 September – Joan Maude, actress (born 1908)
• 30 September – Marius Goring, actor (born 1912)

October

• 2 October
• Raymond Raikes, theatre producer, director and broadcaster (born 1910)
• Sir Richard Way, civil servant, chief executive of London Transport (1970–1974) (born 1914)
• 3 October – Roddy McDowall, actor (born 1928)
• 5 October – Megs Jenkins, character actress (born 1917)
• 6 October – Joseph J. Sandler, psychoanalyst (born 1927)
• 8 October – Curtis Cassell, rabbi (born 1912, German Empire)
• 10 October – Jackie Forster, journalist and lesbian rights activist (born 1926)
• 11 October – Michael Wynn, 7th Baron Newborough, peer and World War II naval veteran (born 1917)
• 15 October – Iain Crichton Smith, Scottish poet and novelist (born 1928)
• 17 October – Joan Hickson, actress (born 1906)
• 20 October – Frank Gillard, radio broadcaster (born 1909)
• 21 October
• Sir Alexander Cairncross, economist (born 1911)
• Alan Sainsbury, Baron Sainsbury, businessman (born 1902)
• 22 October – Eric Ambler, novelist and playwright (born 1909)
• 23 October – Christopher Gable, ballet dancer, choreographer and actor (born 1940)
• 24 October – Dennis Ayling, cinematographer (born 1917)
• 25 October – Susan Strange, political scientist (born 1923)
• 27 October – Rosamund John, actress (born 1913)
• 28 October
• Cuthbert Alport, Baron Alport, politician (born 1912)
• Tommy Flowers, electrical engineer (born 1905)
• Ted Hughes, poet laureate and children's writer (born 1930)

November

• 2 November
• Janet Arnold, costume designer (born 1932)
• Vincent Winter, child film actor (born 1947)
• 7 November
• Margaret Gowing, historian (born 1921)
• John Hunt, Baron Hunt, World War II army officer and leader of the 1953 British Mount Everest Expedition (born 1910)
• 8 November – Rumer Godden, writer (born 1907)
• 10 November
• Peter Cotes, actor, writer and director (born 1912)
• Mary Millar, actress (born 1936)
• 12 November – Roy Hollis, footballer (born 1925)
• 13 November – Doug Wright, English cricketer (b. 1914)
• 14 November
• Eli Cashdan, rabbi (born 1905)
• Quentin Crewe, journalist, author and adventurer (born 1926)
• 18 November – Robin Hall, folk singer (born 1926)
• 19 November – Ken Gatward, RAF pilot of World War II (born 1914)
• 24 November – John Chadwick, linguist (born 1920)
• 26 November – Mike Calvert, Army officer (born 1913)
• 29 November
• Robin Ray, broadcaster, actor and musician (born 1934)
• Martin Ruane, British professional wrestler (b. 1947)

December

• 1 December – Freddie Young, cinematographer (born 1902)
• 2 December – Brian Stonehouse, painter and World War II secret agent (born 1918)
• 3 December – George Murcell, character actor (born 1925)
• 7 December – John Addison, composer (born 1920)
• 8 December – Michael Craze, actor (born 1942)
• 13 December
• Lew Grade, showbusiness impresario and television company executive (born 1906 in Ukraine)
• Sir Richard Thomas, Royal Navy admiral and Black Rod (1992–1995) (born 1932)
• 17 December – John Burns Brooksby, veterinarian (born 1914)
• 20 December – Alan Lloyd Hodgkin, scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (born 1914)
• 21 December
• Roger Avon, actor (born 1914)
• Avril Coleridge-Taylor, pianist, conductor, composer and daughter of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (born 1903)
• Karl Denver, singer (born 1931)
• Sir Richard Turnbull, British colonial governor (b. 1909)
• 22 December – Donald Soper, Methodist minister and pacifist (born 1903)
• 25 December – John Pulman, snooker player (born 1923); accidentally killed
• 26 December – Michael Sherard, fashion designer (born 1910)
• 27 December – Ralegh Radford, historian (born 1900)
• 30 December – George Webb, actor (born 1911)
• 31 December – Alan Morris, English footballer (born 1954); murdered

See also

• List of British films of 1998

References